The Problem is “the stupid economy”
We are loosing jobs that pay reasonable wages because corporations are selling out our economy under the pretense of “Global Economy”.
Lost jobs in the USA will have a disastrous effect on retirement, healthcare, and education.
On retirement -- because corporations target the people who are getting close to retirement. It is in their best interest to get rid of jobs that pay a living wage. People who should have been able to retire will take jobs from the rest of the work force.
On Health Care – because corporations avoid paying for health care by moving their manufacturing outside the United States.
This creates more and more people who can NOT afford routine health care. Small problems go untreated until they become big problems that cause people to end up in the emergency room with a stroke or heart attack.
These additional costs of health care are passed along to the small businesses remaining inside the US. The added cost means that some small businesses will have to drop health care insurance further compounding the problem.
On Education – because of the way we currently fund education.
If you live in a poor neighborhood you get a poor education. If you get a poor education you will have difficulty getting out of a poor neighborhood.
If concerned parents are allowed to pull their children out of a poor school there will be no one left to be concerned about the children who are LEFT BEHIND.
Blacks suffer the most from school vouchers because they are already discriminated against. They are forced to live in poor areas because “Those people are not as smart or as human as the rest of us and do not deserve a better job”. The poor education they get not only enforces that prejudice attitude; it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We need to make sure that real American jobs remain so the people still working can continue to pay into Social Security, and Medicare, and so they will be able to fund our educational system. Most service jobs just do not pay enough.
A global economy can only work when there is global equality.
How can a USA worker who makes 10 dollars an hour compete with a Chinese person who makes 50 cents an hour if he or she or the CHILD is lucky.
The solution -- Give corporations a handicap just like just like you would a golfer to make it possible to compete when you play the game with them.
Tax corporations that have more than 25% of their assets outside the United States and use the money to rebuild Afghanistan, Honduras, and all those other countries whose names you find on your clothing and underwear.
IRS - What happened to the IRS
Rob from the poor
Bonds are sold to the rich and interest is paid from taxes levied against the poor. The Government should lend the money so we can pay interest to ourselves.
Robs from the poor
The lottery is a pyramid that requires continued sales to pay debts owed to previous winners. The government is in the conspiracy because they get taxes.
Do women have a better chance to go to school because the do not have to support the family.
Can girls live at home longer while they go to school.
Do families try harder to provide for the girls education.
Are girls more desirable in the work place because they can work for less. (for the same reasons they can go to school)
Investors have bought stocks simply for the inflated hope of gains at the worlds expense. I hope they have learned a lesson. Investors should look for a reliable company that makes a real product. A company that is not making money by exploiting foreign workers, or buying energy to resell at an inflated profit, like Enron planned to do.
I hope the current problems will cause the American people to rethink the value of the large corporation. Small companies produce a real profit by creating a real product. There are a lot of small corporations who would be glad to earn money for investors.
Jobs are not paying enough but raising minimum wage is not the solution. Minimum wage should only insure that minors are not being exploited. We need real jobs that pay real wages. Selling burgers at McDonals should never be thought of as a “Living Wage”. We are loosing jobs that pay reasonable wages because corporations are selling out our economy.
Large corporations are selling out the US intellectual property to foreign companies under the pretense of “Global Economy”. China can manufacture products and sell them to the world cheaper than we can. It is unreasonable to think other countries will be dumb enough to buy from us and not buy from the same foreign countries that we do.
It won’t be long before the investors turn to China to make money.
The argument that the wages of China will rise because of a “Global Economy” does not hold up. China dos not have labor unions to fight for the rights of its workers like the United States Did.
More government "a swat team to check corporate fraud" "IRS is sewing???”
The recent financial problems make me wonder what happened to the IRS. I thought it was the responsibility of the Internal Revenue Service to make sure businesses follow sound financial policies.
Corporations that "cooks the books" to show a greater profit could also be "cooking the books" to hide profits and avoid taxes.
It may be that the IRS doesn't care because they know they will get more taxes from the pretend profits claimed by a company.
But I think corporations have manipulated the government so they can operate outside the control of the government.
totn@npr.org
Soldiers were and will be civilians
There is no good way to have a war, however I think it is better to take the war to the ones causing it and not allow commanders to sit back and watch while ground soldiers kill each other.
When counting casualties we should subtract the number of solders that would have died on both sides if we had an old fashioned war.
Retirement is not an option for some people, it is a decision made by their aging bodies.
Lost jobs in the USA will have the biggest effect on retirement because corporations target the people who are getting close to retirement. It is in their best interest to get rid of jobs that pay a living wage.
We need to make sure that American jobs remain so the people still working can continue to pay into Social Security
Social Security was built on a pyramid principal counting on more and more people paying into the system. We should have let Goldwater fix it in the sixties.
The biggest current problem is that we are letting corporations export all the jobs that pay a living wage. People will not have enough money to live on let alone save for retirement.
Enron demonstrates that we should not allow people to opt out of social security. Social Security is a safety net to keep people from starving when they retire. It was never intended to provide continued financial status. People should be encouraged to save for retirement or suffer the humiliation and poverty of having to get by with only Social Security.
We need to fix the system that allows an Enron to happen, not the stock market.
Stocks are like a horse race, you bet on a company you think will be a winner. If it is you make money, if not you loose money.
If a company had a sure win they could borrow money from a bank.
If the government gets involved in guaranteeing stocks they could create an even bigger problem with the stock market, because people will feel that they can take the gamble and if there is a problem the government will bail them out.
Corporations avoid paying for health care by moving their manufacturing outside the United States.
This creates more and more people who can NOT afford routine health care. Small problems go untreated until they become big problems that that cause people to end up in the emergency room.
These additional costs of health care are passed along to the small businesses remaining inside the US. The added cost means that some small businesses will have to drop health care insurance further compounding the problem.
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