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Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

It's been about a year and a half

This is why anyone with an ounce of sense isn't outraged.

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

It's been about a year and a half since the shit really hit the fan. And still unemployment sits at awful levels. The economy is still in the dumps. Where is all the progress promised by our politicians? I'm not just singling out Obama here, but all of the politicians. They all claim that this or that will work for us, when in reality it'll only work for the people who line their pockets.

Where are all these jobs that were supposed to be created by the Recovery act? Everybody is screwed. People with little qualifications have to compete with people with better qualifications. People with high qualifications still get screwed because they're deemed "too costly" to a company even though I'm sure anyone would stick with a company for a long while if they got employed in this depression.

And even worse we continue to outsource our jobs. Rather than keeping Americans employed, we keep people in far away lands employed. All so that the corporations who generously donate to the politicians can continue to afford to do so.

Is nobody else starting to seethe with rage about this?

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

promised by our politicians?

Last edited by CameronPoe (2010-03-18 16:10:30)

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

It's been about a year and a half since the shit really hit the fan. And still unemployment sits at awful levels. The economy is still in the dumps. Where is all the progress promised by our politicians? I'm not just singling out Obama here, but all of the politicians. They all claim that this or that will work for us, when in reality it'll only work for the people who line their pockets.

Where are all these jobs that were supposed to be created by the Recovery act? Everybody is screwed. People with little qualifications have to compete with people with better qualifications. People with high qualifications still get screwed because they're deemed "too costly" to a company even though I'm sure anyone would stick with a company for a long while if they got employed in this depression.

And even worse we continue to outsource our jobs. Rather than keeping Americans employed, we keep people in far away lands employed. All so that the corporations who generously donate to the politicians can continue to afford to do so.

Is nobody else starting to seethe with rage about this?

Kmarion wrote:

It's been a lot longer than a year and a half. We outsource our jobs because we don't want to pay $600 for an iPod.

lowing wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Take a leaf out of my youngest brother's book and go somewhere where this is a job. He was in London, then moved to Australia for a year, is currently in Toronto and is planning to go to Argentina.

Recessions are part of the natural economic cycle. Get used to it. At least it is teaching a generation of pampered softies the value of employment, money and prudence.

Now there is some sound advice, move to where the work is. Sorry Cam, your brother (is it braddock?) did not come up with that idea, he followed it. Another success story from a person who did not sit back and allow "luck" to guide them.

CameronPoe wrote:

lowing wrote:

CameronPoe wrote:

Take a leaf out of my youngest brother's book and go somewhere where this is a job. He was in London, then moved to Australia for a year, is currently in Toronto and is planning to go to Argentina.

Recessions are part of the natural economic cycle. Get used to it. At least it is teaching a generation of pampered softies the value of employment, money and prudence.

Now there is some sound advice, move to where the work is. Sorry Cam, your brother (is it braddock?) did not come up with that idea, he followed it. Another success story from a person who did not sit back and allow "luck" to guide them.

My youngest brother Denis. Braddock is still doing his PhD. Denis is just following in the footsteps of my father, who went wherever the work was - mechanic in a garage, construction on North Sea oil rigs, labouring wherever a boom was happening - until he came to rural economic blackspot Donegal to look after his widowed mother.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

It's been about a year and a half

This is why anyone with an ounce of sense isn't outraged.

ATG wrote:

@ Op; yes I am.

Canin wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

This is why anyone with an ounce of sense isn't outraged.

Its been going on longer than that. The artificial inflation of the minimum wage had and has a lot to do with our current problems. Think about it, you force a raise in starting salaries through out the nation. Those companies then have to raise the pricing of their goods due to the fact that the work force costs more. Just because the entry level gets a pay raise does not mean the people already working and earning more than minimum get an increase. Yet they still have to pay more for the goods they were purchasing prior to the increase. Thus you have inflated pricing of goods and the workforce cannot afford to purchase them.