The U.S. economy is headed...
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- turk_1820
TheBlueOne... you have educated me today.
:)
One of your final comments is so dead-on accurate too: "Just like tigers hunt and kill shit. That's what they do."
Lots of 'unnatural' human 'nature' to content with... such as Greed... Power lust etc... I know this may sound negative - but how the hell is mankind ever going to be able to govern itself/themselves when there is that 'evil' side to contend with?
It all feels like one big nasty circle - one group in the generation passes on a set of good morals / ideas / hope while another group floods their generation w/just the opposite... 20 years later... the next generation is just the same - but exponentially larger in size with newer / eviler ideas AND the technology / means to really put their greed in motion...
... suddenly - I'm down to one solution in my head... :)
- ********0
your an idiot 3 point and obviously not educated. Bush ran up the debt but barney frank and the democrats are the ones who pushed big corporate to give loans to poor blacks and mexicans.
So shut the fuck up before i come over their and beat your euro trash ass you pussy.
- < you seem intelligent.studderine
- he's not Euro....he lives in Philly.moveinspace
- So if you plan on fighting bring weapons.moveinspace
- epete lives in texas, with all the smart peoplehallelujah
- Hey epete your lord and savior Bush will be home soon enough, throw a big party & church revival >>>********
- Since everything is "big in texas" except the average IQ, you should swap bible stories or maybe guns...********
- STRIPPERS0
Whatever the case...If the US pays attention to it's infrastructure, invests in grade school education, and brings jobs/manufacturing home, then we'll be fine. It's irresponsible for Americans not to take responsibility for at least some of the outcomes of our future. There's been a lot of waste and misuse of the world's natural resources and greed at the top. People wait until things get terrible to complain, but if you're living outside of your budget and on credit cards, who's fault is that but yours. Sure there are cases where people get hit hard with layoffs etc and they have to do what they need to. But when you do have it good, how about saving a little
- STRIPPERS0
Whatever the case...If the US pays attention to it's infrastructure, invests in grade school education, and brings jobs/manufacturing home, then we'll be fine. It's irresponsible for Americans not to take responsibility for at least some of the outcomes of our future. There's been a lot of waste and misuse of the world's natural resources and greed at the top. People wait until things get terrible to complain, but if you're living outside of your budget and on credit cards, who's fault is that but yours. Sure there are cases where people get hit hard with layoffs etc and they have to do what they need to. But when you do have it good, how about saving a little... Anyways, the US isn't going anywhere it'll always have a place among the top, even if it is a sharing role.
- mg330
I constantly hope that we can reverse this course of sending manufacturing jobs overseas, get Americans back to work making products that not only improve our lives but are there to export because the entire world needs it. We can put tens of thousands of people to work building new cars, non-polluting cars, energy effecient cars, etc. We can put people to work building solar panels, wind farms, etc. all kinds of things that will help bring us off our dependance on foreign oil and help the environment. We can be a world leader on these things, it just takes a willingness for those at the top to suspend their greed and instead look to what can help this country - not themselves - for generations to come.
The absolute out-of-control aspect of jobs having been sent overseas at the expense of American workers who are not skilled to do anything else just makes me want to puke. All this talk of reeducating these workers to learn new skills is not always the answer, IMO. There are some people who can just sit on an assembly line and make sure something goes "Click" and a product gets made. Most of these people are not going to learn new jobs, they're not going to go back to school for multiple years and become something completely different. In a perfect world, they could, but it's just not going to happen. Some people just push a button, you know? But I feel for that person, and there are so many across this country who are low-skilled workers who have lost their jobs, homes, happiness, family security, because a bunch of corporate leaders and CEOS figured out they could make more money by firing those people and giving the same job to someone in another country and pay them 1/4 of the cost for the same thing.
That kind of greed just makes me sick. It makes me want to scream. Surely in a just world those people can look at what they've created and what they've destroyed in the process and feel ashamed for it. But I doubt it.
We have the ability, as we've seen throughout history, to come together and achieve amazing, world changing things. Look at all the inventions the world depends on that started here, all the people that were put to work and the spinoff industries and inventions that became of that. It's reason to smile and hope we can accomplish similar things again.
It won't happen overnight, but I'm very willing to believe that our new President is going to do everything he can to help get us back on the right track, help our country establish some jaw-dropping new initiatives and programs to put people to work and be an example for the entire world. I love thinking about that. All we can do is hope and pray that things change for the better; all I know is that I'm more willing to believe that's possible because Obama won and the other guy didn't.
- ********0
epete/palin for President in 2012
- BonSeff0
i resent the texas stereotype
- Blame your leader for the stereotypes********
- Yeah, but Bush isn't a real Texan. I'll still criticize Texans, but not because of Bush.TheBlueOne
- criticize all you wantBonSeff
- Nothing wrong with Texas if you are a Mexican********
- And you do have the Dallas Cowboys, that Romo is a stud!********
- it's true, any state with Seff has a lot going for ithallelujah
- Blame your leader for the stereotypes
- ********0
Will a New Stimulus Work?
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke helped push for a $700 billion bailout for financial institutions. Now he is voicing support for a new economic stimulus package designed to benefit consumers. In one proposed plan, checks would be sent out to most U.S. taxpayers, similar to what happened in the spring, when Congress gave out money with the hopes that people would spend it and boost the economy.
But Americans spent only about $12 billion of $78 billion in rebate checks; the rest was saved or used to pay down debt. “It will be a missed opportunity if the government mails out checks again,” says Kevin Hassett, a former economist at the Federal Reserve. He suggests that the government should instead spend funds on our nation’s aging infrastructure, an option that Congress is weighing. “Constructing a bridge or a road increases economic activity across a whole area,” says Hassett. “It’s the kind of thing that can really stimulate the economy.
- ********0
Value of the U.S. dollar since the Texas genius, road scholar and dictator George W. Bush took office in 2001.
- it's spelled, Rhodes Scholar mr amateur economistBonSeff
- Thanks, the dictionaries in Texas are even bigger!********
- everything looks big to a troll.BonSeff
- Texas is full of Trolls, we agree on that.********
- bagging on bush stopped being fresh back in 2006. but you seem a little slow, so i'll cut you a breakBonSeff
- Um, Bush wasn't a rhodes scholar. Clinton was.TheBlueOne
- < A little sarcasm on the rhodes scholar mention... We all know Bush has the IQ of an Texas inbred!********