What's your plan to fix 23% unemployment?
More of the same? Keep on keeping on?
Lower wages until we can compete with China's $0.17/hr wages?
Is that your plan?
I know that increasing the cost of every daY COMMODITIES WHICH ALL AMERICANS PURCHASE will do nothing to lower the unemployment rate. It is the ignorance of many who scream about the Chinese (who do nothing but scream) who forget about Mexico, Thailand, Taiwan, India, and of course, Japan and so many more poor countries.
Free trade is a benefit to America, just as technology is our strength. We cannot compete on any playing field against the third world, as their cost of living is so much lower.
I became unemployed at 60. I am now 65. I sought work for three years. I am now living on my SS retirement in the Philippines. I live well, since my meager check equates to more than three average Filipino families make, IF THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS.
The Philippines has strict import requirements and wants everything made here that can be made, in order to increase employment. It does not work. There are Chinese imports abounding here, as it is still cheaper than the local products, and more often of better quality.
Good luck with your screeds. They do nothing to solve the problem. The problem is that the US Gum't has killed the golden goose of American productivity, with ever increasing regulatory costs and higher taxation. Your answer is to increase the cost of living to everyone else, by taxing those items, to aid an abet that Gum't behemoth.
Your ideas fall on deaf ears, here, FRiend. I now employ 17 Filipinos, and will make a difference where I can... with people that appreciate a job at any wage. I worked for someone else in the US despite having been self-employed in five successful businesses. I spent my money well, and have been a benefactor to many, as well as assuring my prodigy a good inheritance. I kept nothing for myself. I know how to produce wealth. I have three registered American Not-for-Profit Corporations (NGO) at work around the world, and have built schools and a hospital in some of the poorest countries. Yes, I AM bragging. I believe in promises.
Have you done anything to help the unemployed? I doubt it!
Disclaimer: I pay more than most local employers and have a line of hard-working Pinoys waiting for a job! I plan to die here, after making a difference.
