Posted on 05/22/2012 6:22:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The other day, I called a friend and interrupted her mid-cry. She'd just returned from putting her only son on a plane to China, where he was moving after giving up on getting a job here.
The next day in the supermarket, I bumped into another friend, looking downcast. She told me her only son was planning his move to Hong Kong, after a fruitless year-long search for a job in the financial sector.
"Obama's destroying the economy," she told me; then she looked nervously around at our hyper-Blue State neighbors. "I feel like I have to whisper, or they're going to come and arrest me."
Welcome to Obama's America 2012, a joy-free zone in which the best and brightest youth are flocking to a Communist dictatorship, because they see more hope of economic opportunity there.
With 1 out of 2 recent college graduates out of work, the future leaders of the nation are hanging out in Mom's basement, enjoying their parents' health insurance coverage, while nodding off in a government-induced haze.
But many of the most driven, entrepreneurial types -- the kind of unstoppable hustlers who built America -- are bolting and may never return.
Why should they when they might land a fine job with that quintessential American company, Procter & Gamble? Its beauty unit is slamming the door on Ohio, and moving its headquarters to Singapore.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Some of my small business acquaintances have ‘Gone Galt’ but there are those of us who are on ‘Slow Roll’. I am incredulous that my fellow Americans have chosen collectivism. And that’s who I hold responsible for this fiasco, the Americans who voted for the ‘Progressives’. They are setting the trend of ‘voting for a living’ or at least for the ones who promise them the most largess.
If Obama is reelected, those hundreds of thousands of jobs lost after the 2008 election will have plenty of company. The other shoe will drop and the path to poverty will be set. Why work when there is no benefit?
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