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Well -- what Americans decided at one time isn't the way it can continue to be. Remember when Bill Clinton was pushing through the NAFTA deal? He came right out and said that Americans had to start competing with the third world. So now we are.
And we cannot compete with the third world by thinking we have to have 2000 sq ft of living space. The third world does just fine in a 200 sq ft of living space and with a whole lot more people sharing that space.
With fewer and fewer taxpayers, the whole thing will soon collapse.
That's amusing, because 6 Billion other people have no problem at all.
Like I was just telling someone else, the 2nd time I lived in Romania 10-12 years ago, the average Romanian made $300/month.
You can't live off of that? Romanians did. What, you thought everyone was homeless or lived in cardboard boxes? Nope. They rented apartments -- $25/month to $50/month for a nice one bedroom.
You can live on low wage jobs.....and you'll learn how to do that, because there is no alternative for you.
Did you really just compare the cost of living in an entire different country to that of the United States?
Based on your example, $300/month, $50 for a one bedroom apartment is 1/6 of monthly income. If I'm making minimum wage, $8.80 here in Oregon, which comes out to $1408 per a month. Where am I going to find a one bedroom apartment anywhere in the US for the equivalent of $237 a month?
Since I'm using Oregon minimum wage, the cheapest one bedroom apartment I could find was in the single most economically depressed City in Oregon. $475 a month. So that is over a third of that persons minimum wage income, before taxes, SS, etc are even taken out of that.
Is the President suppose to force companies to hire people?
Or is the President suppose to order all companies that have relocated over seas, over the last 30 years, to return to America??
Or is the President suppose to force banks, who sit on over a Trillion dollars in cash, to give out small business loans??
How exactly are you connecting the President to this?
And how would it be different if you were President?
Do you think if you were President...got elected in 2008, that none of these people would be requesting food aid??
What would you have done??.....
the president was supposed to use the stimulus for those shovel ready jobs-which evidently we didn't have-even though the money was appropriated for it.
people are disgusted with all the government waste. the american standard of living is falling rapidly, people are worried, and the spending doesn't seem to be for their benefit.
we seem to be too busy with foreign aid, fighting useless wars, spying on citizens, printing more money so americans can struggle with inflation even more-and yet what has been said about job creation? many of us have suggested many things that might be done to help job creation, and yet exactly zero ideas have been implemented.
americans want to know where those TRILLIONS actually went if it didn't go to job creation? (which was the promise). again, each trillion is a thousand billion so we know that is a LOT of money, even if the numbers are mind-numbing anymore.
if the government is telling the people that we can indeed print money with impunity, why not print money and give all unemployed workers government jobs? i guess that would benefit the working class, instead of the kleptocracy.
one more thing, if we are talking about jobs/wages-why is obama trying to push for illegal immigrants when we have so many unemployed americans now? you do know that the more workers you have, the lower the wages will be due to supply and demand, and the less likely that a small business will generate the revenue it needs to stay afloat. how many businesses do you see boarded up? how many empty storefronts anymore?
Say "thank you" to the Gramm Leach Bliley Act. That piece of GOP legislation that deregulated Wall St and allowed them run off the rails and crash the global economy, throwing millions out of work.
Record numbers of unemployed = record number of food stamps.
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