[Errant]

Shadowstats.com:

[Sequoyah101]

We are enduring the illusion of freedom and prosperity.

It won’t last much longer.

Nothing that is happening gives me any hope for better times.

[GOPJ]

‘Disability’ for too many is welfare that goes on and on and on until the country goes broke.

[Last Dakotan]

What employment in China looks like:

Hereafter, sending our manufacturing base and millions of jobs to Asia will be known as a really stupid thing to have done.

[familyop]

"The level of employment in the United States has been declining since the year" 1973.

[Kartographer]

‘DEADBEATS’

Did I make it in first?? ;-)

[Taxman]

There is a way out of this mess, but I am pessimistic that the American people will take the right fork in the road ahead.

Taxman’s suggestion:

1.) Throw all sitting RINO and LIEberal (both Democrat and Republican) Congressmen and Senators out of office in November. That should give Real Americans a veto-proof majority in the House and the Senate.

2.) Enact the FairTax in January, 2015.

3.) Tell Ophonbama AND his entire administration to kiss our ass and get our of our way! We are in control! You are superfluous, and are in the FReeping way!

[Age of Reason]

Errant, listen to this: http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-collaborative-economy-could-change-capitalism/

We have thirty years of jobs left, during which the remaining people with jobs will be employed to complete the infrastructure for the computer run automated manufacturing and service economy.

Then those people will be out of work, too.

Then what? The author isn’t sure then what, but none of his guesses sound appealing at all.

I figure just about everybody will be unemployed, and the government will give us all an equal number of ration cards to exchange for machine supplied goods and services.

We will all be on the dole. Equally. Technology means the end of capitalism.

It’s been happening to us for years, and it’s happening now.

Computer driven cars will be a reality in a few years.

People won’t even be able to get jobs driving a cab.

Cargo ships will soon be operating without crews.

Cashiers are being replaced by self-serve scanners.

Everywhere you turn jobs are being replaced by technology.

First it was manual labor.

Now technology is replacing jobs in the knowledge economy.

When you see major corporations going belly up because technology is obsoleting their goods and services, what chance has the average—or even above average—citizen of surviving this process?

Just about none.

[Moonman62]

Thanks to the offshoring of millions of jobs, the replacement of millions of workers with technology and the overall weakness of the U.S. economy, the percentage of Americans that are actually working is significantly lower than it was when this century began.

Thanks to Bush Big Government followed by Obama Marxism.