''We've become a nation of takers, not makers''

[Whit]

Yay glad free trade has worked out!

It's more fun to blame Obama for Republican ideals.

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

Yay glad free trade has worked out!

There hasn't been free trade in America for a 100 years. Corporatism is not the "free market".

For all these people who blame our current situation on the free market and deregulation, do some homework.

 

[Whit]

There hasn't been free trade in America for a 100 years. Corporatism is not the "free market".

For all these people who blame our current situation on the free market and deregulation, do some homework.

Teach us then since you know all.

 

[meesterperfect]

think of the government as the blob, the more it consumes the bigger it grows.
think of it as a meat grinder in which for every hundred pounds of meat (tax dollars) you put in , only 20 lbs comes out the other end.
where'd it go? well now you know. GOV ATE IT.

the author has a lot of good articles
http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOORE&bylinesearch=true

 

[meesterperfect]

I was talking about this with my friend we went and did some shopping in the D today. It's quite sad. Driving around and seeing how empty it looks more and more. Things will either change there and here or the whole North America as a 3rd world country won't be something some of us will no longer be able to say it won't ever happen.

this old post of mine seems like an apt response.

http://board.freeones.com/showpost.php?p=5550354&postcount=41

 

[Whit]

think of the government as the blob, the more it consumes the bigger it grows.
think of it as a meat grinder in which for every hundred pounds of meat (tax dollars) you put in , only 20 lbs comes out the other end.
where'd it go? well now you know. GOV ATE IT.

the author has a lot of good articles
http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=STEPHEN+MOORE&bylinesearch=true

He is the idiot on Fox that thinks tax cuts solve everything. When he goes on a different network and gets his ass handed to him.

 

[CunningStunts]

He is the idiot on Fox that thinks tax cuts solve everything. When he goes on a different network and gets his ass handed to him.

And unfortunately, there are many people who think a government program can "fix" anything... I work in DC, trust me, these people can't do anything for the most part except waste money and send the US further into the black hole which is the national debt. :2 cents:

 

[meesterperfect]

He is the idiot on Fox that thinks tax cuts solve everything. When he goes on a different network and gets his ass handed to him.

Hmmm....Thats highly significant.

 

[Hot Mega]

I was talking about this with my friend we went and did some shopping in the D today. It's quite sad. Driving around and seeing how empty it looks more and more. Things will either change there and here or the whole North America as a 3rd world country won't be something some of us will no longer be able to say it won't ever happen.

Fear not PWA....adversity creates opportunity. At some point I believe some enterprising individual or group of them will see all the 'inexpensive' land/property in Detroit then take and make something of it.

Some things just don't get wasted. They may have a different rate at which they're recycled but are rarely wasted.:2 cents:

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@ OPP.... :1orglaugh (When are your types going to stop trying to tell us what we've become a nation of???) :1orglaugh :Face-palm: It's alllll 'mental' Face..."you just hear this constant whining -- complaining"



BTW, where do the overwhelming majority of those who work for the g'ment spend their money....(Hint: Not on government goods and services)

 

[Facetious]

Fact of the matter is, when people have a choice between more expensive but made at home or cheaper but made in an overseas, they pick the latter.


All those Chinese worker-slaves are going to start demanding better wages eventually.

Inflection point for the inexpensive
Karen Maley
Published 8:44 AM, 30 Mar 2011 Last update 10:07 AM, 30 Mar 2011

Two relatively recent developments make it likely that we’ve now passed the point where we can expect the prices of manufactured goods, such as cars, computers and washing machines, to keep falling. From now on, the price pressures will all be upwards.

The first is the emergence of Chinese inflation. As I’ve written before (The west can't rebuild on the China cheap, March 25), falling prices for imported Chinese manufactured goods have helped deliver lower inflation to the developed world over the past two decades. But the tables have now turned, and China is now exporting inflation, rather than deflation.

Strong economic growth in both China and India have fuelled a global commodity boom, causing energy and raw material prices to surge sharply. And higher commodity prices will eventually push the cost of Chinese manufactured goods higher. At the same time, Chinese producers face rising labour costs, because Chinese wages are climbing by about 20 per cent a year.

cont'd from Business Spectator

FYI FWIW

....yep, and American workers will be asked to work harder -- or lose your job !

Nothin like a taste of some good 'ol fashin coercion, eh? :horse:

 

[Facetious]

Not surprising from a people wich build up their nations stealing their lands to Natives.

After all, the French have a long history of minding their own affairs. :drool1:

Colonialism and Nationalism in Southeast Asia

 

[busenbust]

er, yes, and the husbands -- and wives -- have affairs too }/

 

[PirateKing]

We've also become a nation of fakers, not Quakers.

 

[bustybbwlover]

and yet many corporations continue to post strong profits, it's almost as if we've separated our companies from our country making them their own separate nations within our nation...except minus the almost, however, as long as we keep strong with our intellectual property development strong...oh where starting to fall behind in that too...yep takers

 

[Hot Mega]

We've also become a nation of fakers, not Quakers.

And since LA keeps winning, acres and acres of faker lovers of the Lakers.

 

[bodie54]

Nothing wrong with hard work, however, how about the millions and growing under Obama who draw a hefty welfare allowance and will never look for a job because welfare pays so well!

Welfare pays well?
Really?
I'd be interested to see those numbers.
I live in northern California - California being one of the more lucrative welfare states - and if I'm remembering correctly (I might not be) a family of three still only gets something like $700 per month.
That's about $22 dollars a day.
If you worked an 8 hour day that would come out to $2.75 per hour, which is waaaaay below minimum wage.

And the cost of living here is VERY high.

 

[meesterperfect]

Welfare pays well?
Really?
I'd be interested to see those numbers.
I live in northern California - California being one of the more lucrative welfare states - and if I'm remembering correctly (I might not be) a family of three still only gets something like $700 per month.
That's about $22 dollars a day.
If you worked an 8 hour day that would come out to $2.75 per hour, which is waaaaay below minimum wage.

And the cost of living here is VERY high.

Oh yeah?
I've known many in new jersey on welfare.
if i recall a single mom who most of the time is with the babies father just not married but he usually works some and has an income gets about 400 bucks a week cash, 400 bucks a week food plus all the cheese, milk and peanut butter than can eat on top of that, plus free medical and many times reduced or free rent and utilities.
then add to that the "earned income credit" check they get from the feds each year of 2 - 5 thousand dollars..........now theres a nice bonus
ok so its not much giving the cost of things today but to the majority of people on it long term it beats waking up before dawn and going to work.

but it is steady income. a lot of people are out of work or forced to work for around 10 bucks an hour these days, after taxes and the stuff they have to pay for that welfare recepients don't they are in the same boat or worse off , and theyre hurtin.
no wonder so many young girls get pregnant instead of finishing high school, or college or just going to work.

 

[Friday on my mind]

Oh yeah?

then add to that the "earned income credit" check they get from the feds each year of 2 - 5 thousand dollars..........now theres a nice bonus

Just so you know nobody on welfare or who didn't work gets the "earned income tax credit".I know I do taxes in Newark NJ.