Bingo. Two posts out of the chute, and one guy nailed it.
25% of our workforce out of work. 25% more making half what they did prior to 2008. New employees being paid less than past generations for the same work...
I tell you folks, this move to get goods and services more cheaply from overseas, has cost us in ways we never would have imagined.
Multiple trillions siphoned off our soil by foreign manufacturers. Illegals working for wages that will only support a person in poverty. U. S. Citizens having to compete here for jobs that can be done more cheaply other places...
You know, it all sounds so great until you watch what is happening to our society under these pressures.
We didn’t become the greatest nation on earth utilizing the policies we are today. As it continues to get worse, folks will speculate why. Most often they will miss it completely.
Our leaders have implemented the wrong policies, and some of us mistook support for the capitalist model, as the loyalist way to go, not realizing you can destroy yourself doing a good thing too.
Deflating our own nation to inflate another one is just comical to watch. People just can’t get over the fact that implementing these policies has contributed to destroying our nation.
What changed after 1992 folks? Any guesses?
Man I’ve seen some dense people, but this is just nothing more than national suicide.
Taking out a mortgage with a small down-payment is taking out a bet that your income stream will be uninterrupted, and be increasing (to keep up with inflation) for the life of the loan.
For the last 20 years, incomes have been dropping, and in the last 7 years, jobs have been vanishing faster than new jobs are created.
But, a real estate neighbor of mine says 5% or less downstroke can get you in that dream house today!
“I tell you folks, this move to get goods and services more cheaply from overseas, has cost us in ways we never would have imagined.”
Not really. It was posted here on FR for years. We knew. The ignorant masses refused to believe it.