These are exciting times. The Awakening of the American people after the corporation driven Crisis of 2007-2008. We are all part of the Revolution the American Spring. Righteous!
The occupy movement thinks jobs can be gained by asking people to boycott their employers. WTH are these guys thinking. I dont know who most of you work for but i value my job way to much to buy into your BS. Your all nothing but Obamas Sheep....and your all being led to the slaughter. Wake up, get off your lazy rears, and do something productive....this is America not some 3rd world nation. You are what you make yourself. Again, i dont buy your BS...
Once jobs return, at wages adjusted for inflation, I doubt they'll continue complaining...
I must have missed all the articles of Obama telling the Occupy people how much they're doing for America. From my POV he's been silent. Would you care to post a few articles? I'd love to be edified. Indeed, he can say words, but if actions don't follow - what then?
As for wages, if "competition" now means wage reduction to 50 cents per hour... in that case, your job won't be valued by you in the end either...
Also, in case you hadn't noticed, more people are going back to college as means to start doing more productive things. Now, considering its costs, combined with many jobs requiring 4-year degrees (which are not cheap) but pay $10/hr...
And don't think you will be immune, either. It's easy to tell others what to do, but we doubt you have an escape rocket when you're treated to the same issues everyone else is. So forgive us for not buying YOUR BS.
oh hypnotoad72....dont worry about me. Unlike the occupy folks i not only work and raise 2 kids and retired from the military but i also have lived within my means and have put back a little nestegg in case i lose my job. I mean I wouldnt want to join you in your cardboard box and dump in the streets. You are laughable at best....
Employers across the USA have concluded that employees are just too expensive. The increased cost of wages, benefits and employment taxes have encouraged employers to re-engineer their businesses. The coming of Obamacare, 2014, sealed the deal. Employers through software, computer controls and robots have learned to run their businesses with less people. What has happened in the last 3 years is an incredible increase in productivity. At the end of past recessions, business needed to hire people in order to ramp-up economic activity. Not so, this time. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to raise the productivity of the reduced workforce and shift jobs overseas. Who is to thank or blame?
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."- Winston Churchill
Employers across the USA are myopic, since it's our spending (or at least government-funded subsidy, handouts, and bailouts) that keep them going. Without jobs, they won't get their handouts either. Try and think of the whole picture instead of blindly propping up the supply-side that has fleeced YOU along with everyone else over more than just 3 years.
As for productivity vs prosperity, that's been going on for decades now.
"A nation's productive—and moral, and intellectual—top is the middle class. It is a broad reservoir of energy, it is a country's motor and lifeblood, which feeds the rest. The common denominator of its members, on their various levels of ability, is: independence. The upper classes are merely a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
and
"The middle class is the heart, the lifeblood, the energy source of a free, industrial economy, i.e., of capitalism; it did not and cannot exist under any other system; it is the product of upward mobility, incompatible with frozen social castes. Do not ask, therefore, for whom the bell of inflation is tolling; it tolls for you. It is not at the destruction of a handful of the rich that inflation is aimed (the rich are mostly in the vanguard of the destroyers), but at the middle class."
How does shutting down NYC help the occupy message? Don't they realize they're mostly hurting people who are not ultra-wealthy? Do they think that inconveniencing millions of people will make their message more appealing?? I don't get it...Seems very poorly though out to me.
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I must have missed all the articles of Obama telling the Occupy people how much they're doing for America. From my POV he's been silent. Would you care to post a few articles? I'd love to be edified. Indeed, he can say words, but if actions don't follow - what then?
As for wages, if "competition" now means wage reduction to 50 cents per hour... in that case, your job won't be valued by you in the end either...
http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2009/3/10/the-american-dream-died-in-february-1973.html
And don't think you will be immune, either. It's easy to tell others what to do, but we doubt you have an escape rocket when you're treated to the same issues everyone else is. So forgive us for not buying YOUR BS.
as in you're an idiot
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."- Winston Churchill
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2011/10/11/how-mitt-romneys-health-care-experts-helped-design-obamacare/
Employers across the USA are myopic, since it's our spending (or at least government-funded subsidy, handouts, and bailouts) that keep them going. Without jobs, they won't get their handouts either. Try and think of the whole picture instead of blindly propping up the supply-side that has fleeced YOU along with everyone else over more than just 3 years.
As for productivity vs prosperity, that's been going on for decades now.
http://www.epi.org/publication/ib330-productivity-vs-compensation/
http://www.realitybase.org/journal/2009/3/10/the-american-dream-died-in-february-1973.html
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/where-the-productivity-went/
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/01/vicious-cycle-stagnant-wages
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/opinion/04krugman.html?_r=4
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/opinion/01eggers.html
http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/2009/06/walmart-workers-on-welfare-lets-look-for-the-spin.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-09-13/census-household-income/50383882/1
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2012/04/04/Minimum-Wage-and-What-It-Buys-You-1950s-to-Now.aspx?index=1
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/opinions/x13292164/COLUMN-American-workers-got-what-they-deserved
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2011/03/31/senator-bernie-sanders-guide-to-corporate-freeloaders/
http://www.truth-out.org/top-us-corporations-outsourced-more-24-million-american-jobs-over-last-decade/1303196400
http://www.ctj.org/html/corp0402.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/news/companies/auto_crisis/index.htm
http://www.sociology.vt.edu/course/socprobs/corporatewelfare.html
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/02/undercover-boss-season-finale/
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/supervisor-wants-employee-to-quit-part-time-job/2902
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/hiring-illegal-immigrants.html
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6283
http://ecosalon.com/squawk-our-tax-dollars-help-mcdonalds-hawk-chicken-in-europe/
http://drich13.newsvine.com/_news/2011/03/20/6307764-study-governor-walkers-budget-will-cut-21843-jobs-could-actually-hurt-state-economy
http://www.progress.org/cwfedex.htm
?http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/why-us-it-jobs-arent-coming-back-465?source=fssr
http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/beware-the-plot-increase-the-h-1b-visa-program-269
http://hubpages.com/hub/HowH1BVisaFRAUDiskillingAmerica?
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9133529/U.S._H_1B_workers_outnumber_unemployed_techies
http://www.ourfuture.org/corporate-welfare
http://mydd.com/story/2007/2/7/184312/5388
http://acsa.net/press/savearticlegates.htm
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/ronald-reagan-where-free-unions-and-collective-bargaining-are-forbidden-freedom-is-lost/
http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/28/news/economy/paycuts/index.htm
http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/2009/06/walmart-workers-on-welfare-lets-look-for-the-spin.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3045walmart_iowa.html
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-to-grassley-were-still-using-h-1bs-no-moral-imperative-to-hire-americans-2009-3
http://www.google.com/search?q=americans+train+replacements+H1B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M
http://anti-union.blogspot.com/2008/11/greedy-american-union-auto-workers-and.html
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/25/unpaid-jobs-the-new-normal/
Corporate greed is to blame. End of subject.
And politicians that vote on issues like this one (http://www.ontheissues.org)
"Voted NO on repealing tax subsidy for companies which move US jobs offshore. (Mar 2005)"
Hyperinflation, brought in part by government spending (e.g. the bailouts and handouts to corporations you seem to support).
But keep quoting dead people. Just as long as you don't include Ayn Rand. She loathed parasites:
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/middle_class.html
"A nation's productive—and moral, and intellectual—top is the middle class. It is a broad reservoir of energy, it is a country's motor and lifeblood, which feeds the rest. The common denominator of its members, on their various levels of ability, is: independence. The upper classes are merely a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
and
"The middle class is the heart, the lifeblood, the energy source of a free, industrial economy, i.e., of capitalism; it did not and cannot exist under any other system; it is the product of upward mobility, incompatible with frozen social castes. Do not ask, therefore, for whom the bell of inflation is tolling; it tolls for you. It is not at the destruction of a handful of the rich that inflation is aimed (the rich are mostly in the vanguard of the destroyers), but at the middle class."
But she turned out to be a parasite, too:
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/149721/ayn_rand_railed_against_government_benefits,_but_grabbed_social_security_and_medicare_when_she_needed_them/?page=1