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To: steve8714
We have had 40 years of trying to move the Nation towards a FIRE economy, with an accompanying subsidy of the vices of the underclass.

Well said....all true. When I was young we had decent factory jobs for the lower to middle class. When these jobs were sent abroad what are these guys going to do? Become mortgage brokers pushing sub prime mortgages?

 You might as well write the inauguration speech of the second Obama term; you know, the one that lasts twenty years?
People need productive things to do. It is our nature. Trading stocks is not productive labor. Practicing law as it is done today is not productive labor.
Remember that John Galt built things.

So did the Hank Reardon of Atlas Shrugged

Henry Rearden Henry (also known as "Hank") is one of the central characters in Atlas Shrugged. Like many of Rand's capitalist characters, he is a self-made man who started as an ordinary worker, showed talent, founded Rearden Steel and made it the most important steel company of the US 

Men need productive and masculine things to do.
Most men don't do well in offices
Women dominate this kind of service economy and have not suffered as much in this recession
A lot more men have been layed off or let go due to lack of work

 

104 posted on 10/06/2009 3:44:27 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw
As Milton Friedman observed, if you want the government to make sure that everyone has jobs, then it should simply mandate that ditches be dug with spoons.
113 posted on 10/07/2009 3:28:01 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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