Must be kinda like those presently running the republican party then.
Pretty much. I’m hoping the Tea Party will be smart enough to not take in the flotsam and jetsam from the dissolving Rep. party and avoid inheriting the baggage they’ll bring.
I think the world is undergoing an economic sea change similar to that caused by the industrial revolution and so a lot of crazy is unleashed in these unstable times.
That unprecedented era of growth after WWII was just that, unprecedented and people need to jettison their expectations that it can go on forever.
People are always bleating about the offshoring of manufacturing, but they need to come to grips with the fact that manufacturing of the future won’t be done by people at all but by robots. Those jobs are gone forever and they won’t be coming back.
A lot of service jobs have been replaced by computers as well. A law office no longer needs an army of researchers and secretaries. A great number of “information” service jobs are make work caused by government regulation and so are a drag on the economy rather than a productive part of it. If the governments crash, all those jobs in the gov’t and private sector will go away.
The fact is, we have a huge number of people the economy just doesn’t need anymore and are now resting comfortably in the government safety net.
We need people to get inventive and creative and the safety net obviates a key ingredient; desperation.