Rush is talking about this very thing right now.
We can let them starve, or ... we can send them checks and make the workers pay higher taxes.
Pain is coming. It could take several forms, but there is no gentle trajectory that takes us out of this problem.
As we dumb down the country and produce less and less we do not need more expensive experienced workers, we just need warm bodies; young & dumb.
All I can say is that when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. It was those middle-aged people who are most responsible for running up the various state and national debts.
get rid of the EPA, get rid of 90% of regulations, and you would double manufacturing in 2-3 years.
non-right to work states would and will be screwed, as no one will build manufacturing plants in those areas because of the union regulations, unless they are offered millions or billions in incentives (which comes from the taxpayers).
but I don’t see this happening, manufacturing is gone, and I don’t think it is coming back.
the only jobs that can be created at this point are government, which as we’ve seen, costs 300k to a million bucks to create one part time position that pays 20k a year, and those jobs only last a year or two, because they get cut in budgets that need to pay for the pensions of the union members.
we’ll be moving more and more to a barter system for goods and services.
The only way out of this, sustainably, is to get back to bedrock principles and fight our way out. I just don’t see the will to do that among many. We don’t even have a consistent national identity anymore. Interestingly, the last time public pride in America and confidence in our nation’s future were approaching levels as low as they are now was at the end of the Carter presidency.
I’m a:
1) 44 year old conservative male
2) college educated
3) Possess a class A CDL
4) Microsoft Certified
5) Own 1/5 of a bar—not much money there-bars have razor thin profit margins
6) I’m presently working in a dead end job(warehousing) at a company that really isn’t going anywhere
7) I have come to accept that my prime earning days have probably past me by.
8) I am in extreme economic survival mode at this time.
Am I angry or depressed??? NO!!!!
The government can tax me to death.
The left can PC me to death with insane racial quotas or EOE directed at women.
The media can ridicule white males as knuckle dragging, draconian,Bible Thumping, Bitter Clinging re-necks.
But none of this will ever break my F__kin’ spirit.
The left want a battle....they F’d with the wrong person.
In my mind, I’m a very free man and the left CAN NEVER take THAT away!!!!
JMO...
Hey Charles, you and your stupid elites from the Ivy league schools have done irreparable harm to our Republic!
Hey Charles, you and your piggish elite friends think with your superior intellects can construct an economic system (Socialism) and out perform Capitalism. Never will happen.
Charles, you and your elites buddies are true parasites on back of the productive in this society. You deserve nothing but contempt.
Hey Charles, if we had the Republic our Founders wanted us to have, (unbridled capitalism, almost unseen central govt), then we would be enjoying vacation homes on the Moon and Mars. Instead, with the left winning, we are being pushed into a Socialist sewer, all the while being told it's our fault.
My simplistic concern on this issue is that -
‘Middle Aged’ have the real world technology know-how, the young ones have the academic know-how.
It could be that the young can and will rediscover first hand knowledge, but it could be argued that they will benefit from learning from the ‘Middle Aged’.
Companies hiring the 20-somethings mostly for their cheaper starting salaries and ‘gambled’ on the technology transfer by the Middle Aged willingly and completely.
Old school unemployment charts which have not been tinkered with by Zero’s administration can be found at http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
Real unemployment has been above 20% for a long time
When my business crapped in December of 2008, I fired up the resume machine and looked forward to returning to some type of manufacturing job. After almost two years of looking and hundreds of resumes sent out, I was told by a friend in the placement industry that because I was sixty years old, I should find a way to retire gracefully. It was providential that my sixty-second birthday was around the corner so we went ahead with an early retirement. I could not imagine being a few years younger and having to hand out smiley faces at Wally World to scrape by until retirement.
LLS