Little G

The Real Unemployment Numbers

The great American Lie.
"Anyone can get rich" = TRUE
"Everyone can get rich" = Lie
Who's going to clean, mow the lawn, empty the trash, build roads etc if everyone does the right thing and gets a good education and a good job?
Duh, the system requires uneducated and most importantly poor people so others can be rich.


On Nov 10 04:25 AM takes_money_to_make_mo... wrote:

> I agree with homer, attempting to keep alive suffering American industries
> by "buying american" is pointless. Although unions have played a
> pivotal role in improving the quality of the American workplace (almost
> every job today owes something to union efforts), they also play
> a role in finding non-educated workers extraordinarily high salaries
> in relatively mundane tasks. The outsourcing of labor to cheaper
> marketplaces is an inevitable and natural mechanism of capitalism.
>
> To all those who say the globalization of the economy means that
> only the rich will get richer, I say you are all provided with an
> opportunity to exercise an extraordinarily simple solution: get rich.
> The system of stock trading is the most powerful yet least understood
> wealth generating device known to man. Investing even a fraction
> of a "poor union man's" salary into both foreign manufacturers (e.g.
> china) and american stocks (apple, boeing, etc.) can produce life-changing
> wealth in a suprisingly short amount of time. If every american had
> just 5 shares of Exxon Mobil stock when they generated their record
> $40 billion earnings, stimulus checks would be unnecessary.
> Our nation, which is seen by many (albeit incorrectly) to be headed
> on a downward spiral was found by a small group of wealthy men on
> a principle that all citizens have the opportunity to become wealthy.
> It's time to spend some of that big union salary on savings for the
> future, not a new boat. It's time to spend some of that big union
> salary on college tuition for your children, not a trip to disney
> world three times a year for your children. A college education from
> an American university is a GLOBALLY sought product and is by far
> our most valuable commodity, more so than any American car, sofa,
> or TV will ever be. It's time for Americans to transition from a
> mundane colony of worker ants to the educated and well rounded people
> that they can be. America will (read) NEVER regain it's throne as
> King of the manufacturing economies, but our power now resides in
> our ability to control the flow of money to cash-hungry corporations
> here and abroad through stock, options, and commodity exchanges.
>
> To all those reading who say "But college is too expensive, and why
> would we invest in the stock market when its in shambles, like it
> is now?" I say yes, college is expensive, and no, you don't understand
> basic economics. Now is the greatest opportunity that you or I will
> ever have to begin investing. Prices all around are at incredible
> lows. A few dollars invested now will some years from now become
> a great sum of wealth, more than capable of providing for our lifestyle
> needs. Forget the herd mentality of those Wall Street "villains"
> whom you so poorly understand. Invest in corporations such as General
> Electric or Verizon Wireless today, and you are more likely to be
> struck by lightning than to lose money in the long run. A penny saved
> is a penny earned, and a penny invested intelligently is ten pennies
> earned. In this time of feeble-mindedness, it seems that basic tenets
> such as these are more important than ever.
> To all those ignorant cynics who say "only the rich get richer,"
> I say maybe it's time that we Americans explore the logical American
> solution: get rich.

The Real Unemployment Numbers

Iraq has not been rebuilt. that is a myth. if 2 billion a week was going to iraq it would not be a sh*t heap with 70-80% people without drinking water. All that cash has not left USA soil and has gone to defence companies and other war profiteers!!
Think about it.


On Nov 08 12:07 PM panocha man wrote:

> If only we could punish the people who voted for Bush by taking their
> jobs and giving them to those that voted Democrat. i predicted in
> early 2000 that we would get bookend recessions , one before Clinton
> and IF BUSH WAS ELECTED ANOTHER RECESSION 2001 recession wasn't enough
> he wanted to go down in history as CREATING the NEXT DEPRESSION,
> HE SUCCEEDED. HE RAN A SPORTS TEAM INTO THE GROUND, WHAT DID PEOPLE
> EXPECT HE WOULD DO TO THE AMERICAN ECONOMY..FIRE ALL BUSHIES YOU
> DESERVE IT. BUSH should be EXILED to IRAQ ,during his presidency
> he cared more about money to rebuild IRAQ than to rebuild the U S.

Media Meltdown Is Even Worse Than Markets

I think you confuse socialism and communism. Most of Europe has fairly socialist govs, same as australia and new zealand where i live.
Sharing wealth in the sense of protecting all people by making education and health a right, not a privilege is the main difference between our successful soceties and yours. the usa is the richist but as a consequence of not caring about each other, you have the highest crime rates, esp violent, and people having their lives destroyed because they get sick.
Your current system has been torn apart due to greed and corruption, it is funny how the us gov always talks about other regimes as corrupt.
You want things to work, its easy, just give a shit about your neighboor in good times and bad and life is good. Don't, and enjoy high crime, poor health and poor levels of education.

Oil Will Peak at $150-200 - Barron's Interview

To Curious Cat above. Read a book called Collapse by Jared Diamond. It discusses Human history of successful societies and that of those which collapsed. You will find it interesting.