Nowadays, especially with electronic gadgets, it’s cheaper to just buy a new one than to repair it.
Gen.Blather, I think you have hit upon something. Security jobs will be plentif.
ronnie raygun, mulligan & 1rudeboy, we agree government is a huge part of the problem not the solution.
Yardstick, I agree we need better widgets. To get them we need more mathemeticians, scientists and engineers and fewer degrees in the humanities. And less lawyers.
Cringing Negativism Network, we should never have opened up our economy to a communist country.
Alberta's Child, Erik Latranyi & old curmudgeon, of course my explanation is simplistic. I'm not sure you detected my sarcasm and humor.
tflabo, soon robots will do to McDonalds what Red Box did to Blockbuster. Though I think McDonalds is smart enough to lead fast food into the robotic age.
TexasFreeper2009, Tupelo, El Laton Caliente, Mister Da, RoosterRedux, stevem, wayoverontheright, Pollster1, blueunicorn6 & SeminoleCounty, I think we are on the same page.
blueunicorn6, you said, "Our government and our businesses cannot be at odds with each other." They can't be in bed with each other either.
Ted Grant, you're missing my point. The problem isn't really the problem. I want more product with less labor. I want more competition and not less. I want innovation. And I want people who can adapt. ---------
RANDOM THOUGHTS:
Things need to become more organic. We individually need to grow more of our own food. Make and fix more of our own stuff.
I don't think we will become an agricultural based society again but decreasing our dependence on others with big gardens and chickens can help.
We need to decentralize. Wealth and power are concentrated into the hands of fewer and fewer people. I don't have a problem if that is happening on a level playing field but the game is fixed.
States have to take back our country from the federal government.
End the minimum wage.
End the 17th amendment.
I am almost persuaded that only property owners should be allowed to vote but that might be too drastic. Certainly increase the voting age to at least 21 and maybe 25.
Incentivize government in ways that politicians are rewarded for spending cuts, reduced regulations, and lower taxes.
Competition always works: it increases choice, quality, and lowers cost. How can we increase competition? How can we increase innovation so that new products are entering the market place faster?
Government must stop rewarding bad behavior and stop penalizing successful people.
End the IRS, EPA, NEA, NEA, FEMA, HUD, NLRB, FED, DHHS (Dept Health & Human Services), and DHS (Dept of Homeland Security). End welfare. End extended unemployment benefits.
The time has come for term limits.
No lawyers in elected office for the next 10 years.
The education system from top to bottom is a complete joke. Schools are children warehouses. Colleges are diploma mills.
I don't like the idea of dismantling large businesses but the large businesses have become influential to the point that I don't know if they own the government or if the government owns them.
How can we penalize the media for choosing sides?
How can we penalize the abuses in the lobbying industry?
People were scared to death of NAFTA but most of the jobs went to China not Mexico.
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