I don't know why I even bother

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This is just the last straw for me.

With lower class jobs delegated to foreign countries, corporate heads found they could lowers expenses by paying someone $5 a week rather than $200. So why not pay someone in Bangladesh $20 a week rather than $500-800 to someone in the US?

The sacred middle class jobs are being moved off shore now. It’s bad enough on its own, but with rising college tuitions, a highly competitive job market, the social security problem, our country’s recession, our rather poor diplomatic standing in the world, and so on, I really doubt there’s going to be much of a job for me when I get out in the job market, even with a decent education.

The fat cats in the upper class must think they can pull consumers out of their asses down the line, because I sure as hell don’t know who’ll be buying their stuff when they drop the average pay level on the earth down to $2000 a year. I guess they’ll just buy each other’s products since they’ll be the ones with all the money.

Not that the Government is helping either. I mean, damn, we’re already up to our goddamn necks in debt, and then in a brilliant move we invade a country and become financially responsible for rebuilding it as well.

Worse, in just a short time we’ll have the burden of the baby boom generation to deal with as well. Those that retire are bad enough, as Social Security is going to sky-rocket. Worse than that, and less touched on is the fact that a lot of the baby boom generation are in high paying jobs, and they <em>don’t</em> want to retire. Ever. So much for all that hippie crap these same people lauded in their youth. It’s all about peace and love until you’re handed that 6 digit pay check, I guess. So why does it matter that these people aren’t retiring? Well, they’re in the same jobs that people graduating in the next 4-10 years should be taking. Only, those jobs are already filled.

So what’s that leave us with? Bad job security, loads of debt thrusted on us by other people’s foolish decisions, a snobbish elitist group running America who must have been absent the day they taught economics in school, and a stress load up the wazoo.

And isn’t it worth it? Isn’t this the American Dream? There’s no way like the American Way!

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Originally posted by Green Mage
And isn’t it worth it? Isn’t this the American Dream? There’s no way like the American Way!

Good thing I live in Canada. Not that we don’t have our economic crises as well.

eyes PST that was supposed to disappear long ago

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Ummm, hate to say this, but if the US economy collapses, Canada will definatly go down with it, along with many other countries.

Anyway, Greenmage, its great that you posted those links, since im doing a report on such things.

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That’s globalization for you.

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Green Mage, that does suck, i guess. I am enlisting (someday) so i wont be in debt. I might even go to college when i get out(if i dont get my ass shot off in some far away land). but that’s why i am not planning on getting one of those jobs. What you do is you find a job that there will always be an open slot for, no matter how many companies take their work into foreign countries. I might become a cop. There’s always room for more cops, and with military training, and possibly some college, i will be making a decent paycheck. Sure, i wont exactly be a rich bastard, but at least i wont be broke or up to my earlobes in debt. 4 years of added up military pension alone will assure me good living for most of my life, not to mention bonuses adn raises with rank. There is even the posibility that i might enjoy military life and decide to give it another term.

How about this stuff on space exploration, anyone think we should invest more into it, or not ?

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What can you do? All you can really do is keep rocking, and

stick it to the man!
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Past generations have endured much worse than ours ever will (provided NYC doesn’t go up in a puff of smoke in the next 5-10 years).

Space spending - we should, but not on the International Space Station. We need more projects like Hubble but, you know, without the huge bonuses to contractors who screwed up their job.

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It’s simple minded capitalism, lightly spiced with globalisation. Let us just wait till the corporate heads realize they have to drop prices because else no one will be able to afford the products, except themselves that is.

There is not a lot to do about it I’m afraid. Beyond knocking some sense into the wallet brained people ontop.

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The guys with money have found that it’s less costly to employ people where labor is cheaper. This ain’t new, as it has been done for decades now. And just because a few people in US are getting jobless because of it doesn’t mean companies will run out of a market for which to sell. They are selling their products off shore too, and in an increasing rate.

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Originally posted by BlueMageOne
Ummm, hate to say this, but if the US economy collapses, Canada will definatly go down with it, along with many other countries.

Hopefully by then I’ll be filthy rich and living on some south pacific island.

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Originally posted by YourWorstEnemy
Hopefully by then I’ll be filthy rich and living on some south pacific island.

Hate to break this to you, but Canada will probably do the same thing eventually, if the workers demand more than three bucks an hour.

What’ll REALLY be funny is when so many are unemployed, that nobody in the US could afford their products, even with the amount of crap we buy. Then they try to come back here, to get people jobs to buy stuff. Unfortunately, the workers will then refuse to work for the fuckers in the first place, they’ll go bankrupt, and the entire economy will collapse. Wait, that’s not funny at all.

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It’s poetic justice. But poverty and crime is going to rise if/when that happens… Anarchy !!!

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Originally posted by Born_Loser
It’s poetic justice. But poverty and crime is going to rise if/when that happens… Anarchy !!!

<img src=“http://cala.nulani.net/images/calacat.gif”>For someone who’s pretty hellbent on enlisting, the idea of anarchy seems to excite you.

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Originally posted by d Galloway
Unfortunately, the workers will then refuse to work for the fuckers in the first place, they’ll go bankrupt, and the entire economy will collapse. Wait, that’s not funny at all.

Sorry d, but I don’t think people will be THAT stubborn… more then likely, the desperate masses will run to the companies in an excited glee… Money is money, after all… no matter where you get it from.

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Originally posted by Green Mage
The fat cats in the upper class must think they can pull consumers out of their asses down the line,
Many of them don’t think a whole lot about that kind of thing. Work at any large corporation and you will see fairly quickly that the paramount goals of many, perhaps most, “ambitious” people are to change their job and get a big bonus before doing so, even at relatively low levels on the corporate ladder. Now, when so many people change positions 20 times in the course of 18 months, in their insatiable drive for advancement, generally it is the case that they have not done a good, thorough job at any of them, and that they really don’t give a shit about doing a good job of anything that might benefit the corporation. Sure, they want it to prosper, abstractly, and they may have even convinced themselves that they’re aiding that, but ultimately, they just view the corporation as their own personal money maker. This mentality is extremely widespread among executives in corporate America today. Unsurprisingly, it was very popular at Enron.