[quote author=bigfoot077 link=topic=81976.msg853554#msg853554 date=1280624640]
These are possibly the 4 best sentences you'll ever read:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3, The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
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The reality is that no matter how smart, how strong, how educated or how hard working American workers are, they just cannot compete with people who are desperate to put in long days at less than a dollar an hour on the other side of the world. What corporation in their right mind is going to pay an American worker 10 times more to do the same job? The world is fundamentally changing. Wealth and power are rapidly becoming concentrated at the top and the big global corporations are making massive amounts of money. Meanwhile, the American middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence as U.S. workers are slowly being merged into the new "global" labor pool.
What do most Americans have to offer in the marketplace other than their labor? Not much. The truth is that most Americans are absolutely dependent on someone else giving them a job. But today, U.S. workers are "less attractive" than ever. Compared to the rest of the world, American workers are extremely expensive, and the government keeps passing more rules and regulations seemingly on a monthly basis that makes it even more difficult to conduct business in the United States.
So corporations are moving operations out of the U.S. at breathtaking speed. Since the U.S. government does not penalize them for doing so, there really is no incentive for them to stay.
What has developed is a situation where the people at the top are doing quite well, while most Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to make it. There are now about six unemployed Americans for every new job opening in the United States, and the number of "chronically unemployed" is soaring. There simply are not nearly enough jobs for everyone.
Many of those who are able to get jobs are finding that they are making less money than they used to. In fact, an increasingly large percentage of Americans are working at low wage retail and service jobs. The Democrats gave us Cobra Insurance and The Family Medical Leave Act. Despite their faults I think they are our best choice. The fact that the Republicans are fighting Health Care so hard tells me it’s worth taking a chance on. Entrepreneurs who want to start small business are often unable to do so because of health care costs. The hospitals and insurance companies are bleeding us dry. If you want to continue down the same path and believe Rush L. don’t be surprised if things continue to get worse.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein ...
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