Jobs Come and Go (One of the smartest economists in the world hits the nail on the head)

www.townhall.com ^ | 11/26/2003 | Walter E. Williams

[MonroeDNA]

Nice try.

"If you have no income and have no savings, you are living in poverty..."

So if you own your mud hut in Sri Lanka, and make eight cents a day, saving three cents a day, you are not in poverty?

[riri]

we're going to be stuck with the less than 100 IQ types --- and you really don't want to have them moved to health care jobs hanging your IV's or programming the machine that gives you your pain meds

Unless they drastically reduce and water down the nursing requirements (god forbid) there is no way a large percentage of them could pass the basic sciences courses required (biology, chemistry, anatomy & physiology, etc.) to make it into the health care fields.

[MonroeDNA]

Willie is buried in socialism

As Rush points out, we must always keep a couple of Marxists around, in cages, just so we never forget.

Willie is our official designated Marxist. Observe and learn.

[MonroeDNA]

Nice deflection. Would your ancestors be proud of your whining?

[MonroeDNA]

"Rush is exceptional..."

So are you.

[FITZ]

So if you own your mud hut in Sri Lanka, and make eight cents a day, saving three cents a day, you are not in poverty?

If you own your mud hut outright? And you make 8c but only need 5c a day? So can save almost half your income? And the 3c a day you save becomes $1.50 in one month but you still only need 5c a day? Yes --- maybe you would not be in much poverty. You'd be living well within your means --- unlike many Americans who require vast amount of Socialism to meet their needs.

[FITZ]

So I'll ask you ---- if you have 8 kids, make $0 a day, have no high school diploma or job skills --- but welfare provides you a $1000 apartment or house (but you still don't own it) and all the food you and your kids could every hope to eat, all your bills are paid --- you have a color tv in every room thanks to the taxpayers, and you carry a cell phone --- are you wealthy?

[sly671]

well, who knows how long the long run will be? If you see how fast the economy fell apart at the end of Clinton's tenure in office, it could just as well climb as fast. As for that computer programmer, he or she can move to India. Either that, or stop whining and find another job.

[MonroeDNA]

Would your ancestors be proud of you?

Would the poeple who gave you life be happy with your attitude?

I ask myself this every day. I hope that I would live up to them. They went through worse than anything I will ever experience.

Would your ancestors be proud of you? Or would they be pi$$ed that you would blame chinese? Or any group.

[sly671]

once again, right on. I believe it was Ben Franklin who said we have the right to pursue happiness.....you just have to catch it yourself. There will always be open jobs no matter the unemployment numbers. Go out and get them.

[MonroeDNA]

It was your definition.

So those folks in Sri Lanka are not in poverty.

"If you own your mud hut outright? And you make 8c but only need 5c a day? So can save almost half your income? And the 3c a day you save becomes $1.50 in one month but you still only need 5c a day? Yes --- maybe you would not be in much poverty.

[sly671]

Isn't acquiring as much wealth as possible free enterprise and the "American dream"? If those "poorer countrymen" want to try and acquire wealth, they are free to. No one's holding them down from trying. And how are people supposed to have goods to buy if the companies have to pay more for labor, creating higher prices for those goods?

[FITZ]

Everyone needs to watch Jerry Springer and get an idea why some of those who might have been okay at doing assembly line work or some factory jobs shouldn't become RN's or health care employees ---even if there are health care jobs.

[ForOurFuture]

I didn't even notice who the author was. Then I read your comment that the man is a genius and I thought "I wonder if it's Walter Williams?"

Same here. The man's a legend.

[FITZ]

So those folks in Sri Lanka are not in poverty.

Not if they are saving up money. So are the welfare folks living in prosperity and wealth?

[MonroeDNA]

"So I'll ask you ---- if you have 8 kids, make $0 a day, have no high school diploma or job skills --- but welfare provides you a $1000 apartment or house (but you still don't own it) and all the food you and your kids could every hope to eat, all your bills are paid --- you have a color tv in every room thanks to the taxpayers, and you carry a cell phone --- are you wealthy?"

By world standards, yes. Incredibly wealthy, actually.

Should poverty levels be by country, or by the world? The mud hut Sri Lanka person would give up thier profit in a second, to live the life of the Inner city welfare queen. They would be rich. Again, why not a UN standard on poverty? Dollars per person? Color TV's per family? Shoes per kid?

[FITZ]

yes. Incredibly wealthy, actually

And you accuse others of being Marxists? It sounds like you believe in "wealth redistribution".

I believe the self-reliant type in Sri Lanka who is earning enough money and managing to save even 3c a day like you gave as an example is in less poverty than the family living off the wealth of others.

[MonroeDNA]

"Isn't acquiring as much wealth as possible free enterprise and the "American dream"? "Uh, no. Not at all.

We American dreamers love individual fredom, and all we ask is to be left alone. Individual Freedom is what we want. We want to make our own decisions, free from the student council, and other morons that want to control us.

We believe that individuals, free to do what they want, invent. We knowthat there are people who want to control us, and regulate us.

Ronald Reagan knew this, and he was right. Individual freedom is a God-given right.

If we wanted to acquire wealth, we would take it by force, like all socialists do. Control freaks hate independent thought.

[MonroeDNA]

Huh?

I am sure you meant well, but you were the one to say that people in Sri Lanka making a profit are not in poverty, but welfare queens in the US are.

Up is down.

[MonroeDNA]

Speak, if your ancestors would be proud.