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Nemo888 said:What good are those skills when I can hire someone with the same skills and a BSc in Asia for 10$ a day. Most of the jobs being created here are service industry and pay close to minimum wage. In the US the number of jobs is rising but the total tax revenue is steadily dropping.(The jobs are crap.)
Our trade deficit is over 10 billion a year now. Think of what that would be without the 50 billion in oil exports per year. Thank God for petro dollars.
I don't see how an economy can work without manufacturing stuff. So occupy/civil unrest is just beginning as things are not going to get any better. When in Asia I was fascinated how my bits of paper from Canada could buy me anything I dreamed of. Eventually they will wake up and not want useless bits of paper. Then we will have to make our workers compete with 10$ a day. Wages need to drop. Things will be a mess during the transition when the majority of the working class have no useful work and no longer have the buying power to drive the economy.
I'm lucky enough to be able to invest in Asia now to escape the failing economy here. It doesn't feel fair but I can make more money doing that than working. Don't have much choice since where I work has telegraphed that outsourcing plans will be completed in about 3 to 4 years. I should be enjoying my capitalist savvy, but I want the country I grew up in. I want to work for my wages, but that seems to be for suckers in the current system. In a few years I will be outsourced for a second time in my life. If I was young I would be pissed. What opportunity is there? (Other than joining the army or police to quell the coming civil unrest/domestic terrorists. > )
Will you please stop with the "I hate the system" "I hate what it's doing to our country" "We have to cut wages" "We are failing" crap, all the while you also say you're milking it for all it's worth.
You don't hate the system, you don't care what it's doing to the country, you're not going to take a $10.00 wage and you're not doing anything to stop the failure.
You're sucking the system dry like a two dollar whore.
You should really try politics. You know, say one thing to get votes and then do the exact opposite after being elected. The transition should be fairly simple for someone like you.
Some may probably deduce your an opportunistic leech, a weasel and a complete hypocrite.
However, that's for them to decide.
At any rate, your socialistic platitudes ring as hollow as an empty 45 gallon oil drum and you're not worth conversing with anymore.
Flippin' the switch...........now.