Posted by NE IA on April 11, 2008 at 18:02:26 from (12.227.201.71):
In Reply to: OT - Economics posted by Spook on April 11, 2008 at 13:12:21:
Not here to point fingers nor play politics.
Alot of the young ones are in trouble, but what did they see growing up? Many of us got wealthy because of inflation weather we insist it was nose to the grindstone 24/7 that we tell our kids about. We lived through better times, and the ones that bought houses, farms, equipment etc. are the ones who "won". Anyone who got ahead maybe did not just pay rent. Little doubt our net worth has alot of inflation if we actualy admit it. When we lost our jobs there were many to choose from compared to today. NO NO NO not the ones that won't pay the gas to drive us to work--they don't count in my book.
Yea kids seem to never want aunt Joans old furnature because they could make the payments on new, and the finance companies chased them all the way to forclosure. They had a idea what dad made for wages, and they are making three to four times that, so why could't they afford it?
I know government run healthcare is not supposed to work, I got news for you... it can work. The problem is managment. The VA is government run, and I could not so much as ask for better care in Iowa City or Dubuque IA VA. In the last five years I have spoke to less than a handful that were unsatisfied. Anyone care to poll any other hospital? There are VA's that are bad news at best, but it has to revolve around managment. I'll give ya this, that usualy government seldom adds value, and never makes much stuff better as we all know.
Good jobs are few and far at best, and it looks to me like only the tip of the iceberg. Us old folks seen this coming, and we cried wolf for years, but then we was wrong for many years after we first cried out. Pretty sure we are in deep doo doo now, and we all kinda give up. Anyone can come up with numbers, but each and every one of us has alot of debt to pay off, like $32,000.00--$42,000.00 to pay off our national debt. Probably the politicians have a cure or means to do fix that. Does the dirty words higher taxes seem like their cure?
Big business is driving the country now, lower wages. Sender over the pond happens when they can't find min. wage or less helpers.
Good to hear they are wanting to hold off forclosure for the distressed homeowners. Bet we will send the money to the bankers instead of the homeowners. Sure hope we don't have to mail out letters telling them it's coming cause that gets costly I hear.
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