Originally posted by BigHead50@Sep 7 2004, 10:54 PM
there are less and less jobs here, but the empire, I mean gov. keeps fixing the numbers, and even then, if you do the math, we are losing about 30-50 thousand jobs a month, but the "man" comes on TV and brags about how his tax cuts to the rich are working, Hey Yea, for the rich.....
The world, let alone A LOT of us here in this country, have had just about enough of the pain and hunger of "big business" or "fortune 500" = screw all the working men and women, old persons, and children....Give me ALL your Money, you don't need it, your to busy woking 80 hours a week for minimum wage trying to eat.
Yes it truly is Amazing, We bought our house in 1998 and where we live, our house if we were to sell it we could sell it for 41% more than we paid for it in 98' The cost of housing in general has skyrocketed (except property rent/lease monthly rent has stayed kind of close to what it was in 98.
With taking the Cost of housing in to the Picture : How is it that Home ownership is at an ALL TIME HIGH ( during a time when this president has "lost more jobs than any president in 75 years)
This president inheirted the Job loss and the Recession of the DOT.COM Bust and the
All the JOBS lost to 9/11. I rember looking for another tech Job before 9/11 they we not out there. I was supposed to be on a plane for a Job Orientaion/Training in Chicago on 9/11/2001.
It is intesting that NAFTDA was signed into Being not by Bush but by Ex-President Clintion.
I agree that the Fourtune 500 are screwing the Little guy, I got screwed by a Large multi-national company.
Presently America is larger than it was and has a Larger work force than it had when
Clintion was relected, the differnce in unemployemt numbers now and then 1/10thj of a percentage point. Is it becasue we are using precentage rather than real numbers ?
The number of undocumented workers in the country has increased by about 5 million (est) since 1996. I BLAME EVERYONE FOR THIS, but Neither KERRY or BUSH will do anything about this, 8 years ago you could make $15-20 an hour ( a honset living wage to support a Family) These jobs we'nt picking corn or cotton or berries, it was Framing, drywalling, and other construction Jobs now the top end is around $11-12 an hour. Can you guess why?
Who needs health care the Undocumented workers get it for FREE.
My kid sister ended up in a bad situation when her husband left her flappin in the wind with 2 kids and no child support, well she could'nt pay all the bills on her own when she went to get some social services she found out that she made $2 to much to qualify for any social services, but the funny thing is that people with the only form of ID was a Consular Matricular card, was given food stamps, section 8 housing and some cash with her 7 anchor babies in tow. They refered her (my sister) to the food bank, guess who she ran into at the food bank, That is right the mother with the seven kids, but alas perhaps this woman and her family was under perscution in there home country. I could get bitter but I chose to be better. My sister is in a better situation now, still no child support, but she found a Job with better benfits and wages. The whole family ended up kickin to help her (kind of the way it should be any how)
But when people with "social services " are eating like kings: Steak and Seafood
Have you ever seen people with a grocery cart full of food, then whip out the Food Stamps to pay for $3-400 worth of food, and you are struggling to live within your means?
America is chaniging.
Are the Children of these Hard working "..cough cough Immigrants" going to have the same work ethic?? are they going to only be filling the " low end jobs that no one wants so we have to import the labor" or are they going to get a tax funded higher ed degree, then under affirmative action are they going to get prefential treatment and the Job at the expense of a 5th-6th Generation American immigrant, (BTW my blood daughters fall into the Affimatvie action catagory because of the heriatge of my wife, their mom)
They say that 1 in 30 living in America are doing so illegally, this is not going to change for the better itstead I think that it is only going to increase, when we hear that K-12 education is broke ($), that health care has gone through the roof, that wages are going down, etc, etc, etc. It is'nt ALL the fault of big business,
It will not change so get over it. Until they come for your Job, your house, etc, we will not do anything to change it.
I hate statics too, they pick and choose, to skew.
By the way my wife is a Legal Immigrant and a Naturalized US Citizen.
I feel like we are being slowly invaded.
My .02 cents, I will live with it, one great thing about America is that we are resourceful and inventive. We will adapt,
All said Americas poor live better than 95% of the rest of the Planet.
I have lived 2 years in a Third world country, taken cold showers, boiled my drinking
water, had electricty on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. Running water on thoose days (electric pump) So I am not speaking in blind ignorance.
When you think Empire the new Empire on the Rise is China.!
Peace Out.