Posted on 07/10/2011 6:25:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Where?
Luxembourg?
Viet Nam
First, I disagree with blaming "the Rich", which seems to be the focus of the first part of this article.
Back up and see that some of "the rich" got that way, a few pennies at a time, providing goods and or services to people who aren't "the rich". They weren't 'the rich' when they started, they had an idea and pursued it.
Walmart is a prime example.
The middle class created the demand for those services and items, and collectively, the middle class, even in dwindling numbers, can alter the equation.
If it isn't made here, leave it on the shelf.
Don't buy it.
Change the equation.
Demand things made here, and make the origin of the labor part of the equation. If the demand for American made is high enough, the rest will follow--as will jobs.
American jobs left because of a combination of regulation, taxation, and the consumer demand for 'cheaper', regardless of where 'cheaper' came from. Now, we are paying the price for 'cheaper'.
The other part of the equation is simple. Provide something the 'rich' want, and you're in business.
There are, of course, impediments, regulatory and otherwise, to be overcome.
The Marxists have been putting the squeeze on the Middle Class for decades. After all, without a maleable 'proletariat' their whole line of crap won't fly. Marxism sells best to peasants and people completely intellectually detached from the trenches of the workaday world, and relies on the dissatisfaction of the former to produce the violent upheavals needed to emplace a system even more onerous than the status quo.
Marketing the status quo as unliveable, unchangeable, and the result of someone else is key to fomenting unrest. Blame someone, and why not those who are the targets of collective envy?--even if they started out with far less.
The promise of 'fairness', of redistributed wealth from 'the rich' (which either does not happen, or, if evenly divided works out to a pittance per persson) is scant promise for a nation to sell its soul, but there are those who envision themselves living as if they were rolling in lucre, when in fact, Marxist 'equality' merely brings all (but the party elite) down to the same dirt-grubbing poverty and squalor while convincing (at gunpoint, if necessary) the masses they are so much better off.
We must ever guard against the fallacies inherent in that philosophy, and remove the impediments to creating wealth right here at home if our nation is to survive.
Whether the already-programmed masses of disaffected youth and discouraged elders and the race-baiters and professional victims can ever be salvaged is up to them, and I pray daily they will see the light. For as their numbers grow, the prognosis for this nation becomes ever more grim if they do not see that freedom from the lash of regulation and the chains of taxation is the key to economic emancipation, not the enslavement of those who have prospered providing what they, the masses, have demanded in the marketplace.
In history there are people who have had their clothes, food, housing and jobs provided to them.
We call those people “slaves”.
There are many reasons for loss of “good” jobs. But I wonder if the 99 weeks (almost 2 years) of unemployment benefit is not one of them. I personally know 2 individuals who were laid off and decided to not look for jobs for several months because of the unemployment checks.
The other obvious reason of course is too many regulations on small businesses. The paper work required to run a small business is daunting.
I agree, but the fact is, some states and parts of states are finished unless they strike oil.
Michigan, most of Ohio, Nevada outside of Las Vegas and Reno, most of California, much of the Carolinas and big chunks of Florida...they're not coming back in our lifetime.
Watch for the Great Lakes region to flood south and west over the next decade.
bfl
The swindle that has been perpetuated is that they can use that cheap labor and bribe the pols into lowering our tariffs so they can sell to the once lucrative American consumer market. Again, unfortunately, they laid off each others customers and the middle class pays for it.
**When Perot was running he showed a picture of a Ford plant in Mexico and asked "What's wrong with this picture?" I didn't see anything but a factory. He then pointed out that there were no parking lots - the workers were all bused in from the barrios as they couldn't afford to buy the cars they made.
“A good leader will turn this around in short order.”
Having no leader would turn this around in short order.
“Working class” suggests anyone with money is not working class and somehow gets their money for nothing.
some people make better slaves than others.
i will live for no man, nor ask another to live for me
BS!
The electorate will not stand for the cuts necessary to turn this ship. We would have to cut at least 25% of the deficit every year for 4 years. $3260billion or better per year.
25% cuts to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
It won't happen, I don't which or what party is in power.
It won't happen.
Collapse is the only outcome.
This is far worse. Thirty-two years ago we had a manufacturing infrastructure, 80% fewer illegal aliens, manageable government debt, no housing meltdown and probably 80% public participation in paying federal taxes.
Sadly, I must agree with you. The dependent class has too many votes. And every illegal that crosses the border will eventually add to that total.
If Reagan were alive today, yes, he could pull it off. But there is no Reagan today. Palin is the closest. She has Reagan's vision, but not his wide popularity. So Palin will not be able to get the job done, IMHO.
Collapse is the only outcome.
I'd bet against collapse, although it never hurts to prepare. More likely we'll drift into becoming a weak and flabby socialist state, with inner city riots every few years or so.
“They can hire all the labor they want on the other side of the globe for a fraction of the cost. So the rich don’t really have that much use for the working class in America anymore.”
Hmmm. All the electrical contractors in my area are firing all their employees, but I must have missed all the Asians they brought in to take their jobs. The boss must have been lying to me when he said government regulations and the threat of Obamacare were what was putting him out of business.
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To tell the truth, you’re probably right.
RayChuang88, that’s a fairly good comment.
I think this guy is more devious, but he’s hell bent on taking this nation down, just like Carter thought he had.
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