[expat_panama]

Everyone knows that business are straining cope with a horrendous labor shortage, and even with so many calls for work they're powerless when it comes to demand cost of living increases because of the president's failure to support the need for COL pay hikes.

It doesn't stop there.  What little power the homeless once had is being destroyed by the ever increasing voting majority of the winners of life's lottery.  In fact, excess personal wealth has gotten so extreme that our society is endemically infested with an elite super rich that no longer even as a need to save.   Americans used to save big-time back before the imbalance of private assets was allowed to corrupt net worth figures.  Not any more.

Bottom line is that it's all the fault of those odious "free trait" agreements.  Years ago we tried to tell them that sending all our jobs to Mexico would clearly result in the masses of Mexican unemployed flooding into the US job market. 

The fact that we still have falling unemployment, even with a third of Mexico's population already here,  proves that there's no hope, no light at the end of the tunnel.  We're doomed.

[maica]

Doomed!!! We even outsource our food preparation! We have someone else cook for us [possibly at DQ] but if we do venture into a grocery store, we go to the produce dept where someone else has even shredded our salad greens, and skinned our cute little baby carrots for us, from there to the deli dept where someone else cuts our meat for us, from there to the gourmet dessert section because we are so short of money and on and on. Woe are we...