Posts Tagged ‘America’
Come on, people. America is supposed to the most advanced commercial society in the world. Let’s stop whining because we are not allow to push the green button on the injection mold machine. One foreigner pushes the button so that 10 Americans can have jobs getting it to the consumer. There is an equation I’ve never seen on CNN.
Imagine this scenario played out on a town hall stage before an audience. Two participants sit on stage at desks, empty except a box of sharpened #2 pencils. The teacher in this scenario is Anderson Cooper. A sheet full of empty circles is handing to each participant. The test consists of 150 yes or no questions – three each from each state generated via an online mechanism that allows any and all US IP addresses to put in their ideas.
Gas is pushing $4 a gallon and we own a Tahoe. The stock market considers a narrow loss “good news” and 99% percent of our retirement is being cashed out to pay off the Citi Mastercard. 80,000 jobs (of about 200 million) are lost and everyone loses 3% of their income almost overnight due to inflation. The average person on the street frowns because it is contagious. They don’t really know why when didactically challenged, but the frown let’s them feel as though they fit in.
