"X - Man" wrote in message ...


You right-wing circle jerkers wouldn't know "well-reasoned" from
"well-seasoned." You and several of your fellow low IQ righties don't
have the brain power to discern what is well-reasoned and what isn't.
Most of you barely got out of high school. You, Ingersoll, Canuckles,
your buddy the ID spoofer, et cetera, are the best argument against
social promotions.

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Insults aside, there aren't any Ivy League college grads running around
with much of a clue about what to do either, including our wonderful
"leaders" in Congress.

Sometimes common sense serves better than college courses/degrees on
economics, especially when all the traditional rules have changed.

Hate to say it, but there is no simple solution. The revised cry for "Jobs,
Jobs, Jobs" in DC are meaningless. There aren't any.
Any jobs created will be federally funded or subsidized "make work" programs
but there's no money to pay for them.

The real problem is not being addressed. The real solutions are not very
popular to many. Some of the TeaBagger's views unfortunately have some
merit. The USA cannot compete in a global economy like it did since the end
of WWII. Our economic growth was based on internal competition among
companies within the USA, giving rise to artificially high pay and benefit
packages when compared to the rest of the industrialized world.
The rise of countries like China as a major manufacturing country has
changed all that.

Expecting USA based companies to invest in manufacturing facilities in the
USA is a fairy tale. Isn't going to happen as long as they have to compete
with the manufacturing costs overseas. Demands that "Big Corporations"
pay their fair share of taxes sounds good and is justified but collection of
those taxes is a pimple on an elephants ass compared to the revenues
required to pay USA debt, let alone finance "make work" programs.
Right now 60 percent of Americans receive more federal money and benefits
than they pay in taxes. 50 percent of Americans don't pay taxes at all and
both those percentage numbers are rising.

We may have no choice but to go back to basics. Entitlements will have to
be scaled back as will defense spending, foreign aid and all other federal
spending programs. Families will have to go back to taking care of each
other and pooling resources. Many in Europe and Asia have been doing that
for years.

When the Chinese worker begins to realize that he/she is working for a
fraction of the compensation paid elsewhere in the world and begins to
revolt things may start to change. As it does, an American worker who used
to receive the equivalent of $50 to $90 per hour in pay and benefits is
going to have to adjust to living on half of that. The $300K house he/she
lives in is going to be worth $150K .

Sorry to sound so dismal, but that's how I see it.

Eisboch