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Quenepa22 said:No matter what happens, I still think that America is the best country in the world to live in! IMO, the reason that we are in this mess, globally, is because of the greediness of our politicians! I know that corruption will always be in our midst, but, why do we need it so blatantly in lobbyist that feed into the greedy politicians just to sway laws in favor of the lobbyists' employers!
Why can't the politicians truly represent the constituents that elected them. Instead of protecting the best interest of Americans they are busy passing laws that are allowing jobs and companys to move offshore.
Fortunately, I still have a job, but many people in the company I work for have been let go. It is very interesting how this has occured. The company I work for (which I will not name, but is a big player in the American economy) was bought by a group of investors a couple of years back. Suddenly, the offices were filled with people from India being taught how to do the work of the people in these offices. I come to find out that the company has said to their workers that they have a choice to make...1) they could be let go immediately or 2) they could teach their Indian counterpart their position for the next couple of months and then be let go!
The office that used to be pleasure going to became like a "foreign country" within a matter of months! In the mornings, there were taxi's line up at the front entrance dropping off 2 to 3 indian workers.
From time to time, I have to contact different departments for information and I am sorry to say that the language barrier is nearly impossible to overcome!
I am not against folks from other parts of this world having jobs in American companies, but, it seems that our American companies and Americans alike have been sold out to foreign countries.
Our government thinks that bailouts will get us out of this mess and all they are doing is throwing up a smoke screen to the American people in hopes that eventually the recession that we are in will soon end. They really need to clamp down on their own actions as things are bound to get worse than it is already. Yes they can print all the money they want, but it doesn't make a difference when a good portion of America and American businesses are owned by foreign countries.
They need to pass laws that will benefit Americans. My personal feeling is that not one more dime of Americans tax money go to any other financial insitution. Let us remove our 401K's without penalties and place them in accounts that we can control instead of hoping that the SEC will protect our investments from fraud & greed! And instead of pumping dollars into local governments for infrastructure improvements, take these approved billions (or trillions) of dollars and place them into safe education savings accounts for natural-born American citizens to use for college educations!
I asked that our government give Americans a fighting chance to continue to be the best country in this world...invest in your citizens instead of corporations and your own pockets!
Sorry for the long rant, I just could not help it.
200lbhockeyplayer said:
jacobbocce72 said:
jacobbocce72 said:
Quenepa22 said:No matter what happens, I still think that America is the best country in the world to live in! IMO, the reason that we are in this mess, globally, is because of the greediness of our politicians! I know that corruption will always be in our midst, but, why do we need it so blatantly in lobbyist that feed into the greedy politicians just to sway laws in favor of the lobbyists' employers!
Why can't the politicians truly represent the constituents that elected them. Instead of protecting the best interest of Americans they are busy passing laws that are allowing jobs and companys to move offshore.
Fortunately, I still have a job, but many people in the company I work for have been let go. It is very interesting how this has occured. The company I work for (which I will not name, but is a big player in the American economy) was bought by a group of investors a couple of years back. Suddenly, the offices were filled with people from India being taught how to do the work of the people in these offices. I come to find out that the company has said to their workers that they have a choice to make...1) they could be let go immediately or 2) they could teach their Indian counterpart their position for the next couple of months and then be let go!
The office that used to be pleasure going to became like a "foreign country" within a matter of months! In the mornings, there were taxi's line up at the front entrance dropping off 2 to 3 indian workers.
From time to time, I have to contact different departments for information and I am sorry to say that the language barrier is nearly impossible to overcome!
I am not against folks from other parts of this world having jobs in American companies, but, it seems that our American companies and Americans alike have been sold out to foreign countries.
Our government thinks that bailouts will get us out of this mess and all they are doing is throwing up a smoke screen to the American people in hopes that eventually the recession that we are in will soon end. They really need to clamp down on their own actions as things are bound to get worse than it is already. Yes they can print all the money they want, but it doesn't make a difference when a good portion of America and American businesses are owned by foreign countries.
They need to pass laws that will benefit Americans. My personal feeling is that not one more dime of Americans tax money go to any other financial insitution. Let us remove our 401K's without penalties and place them in accounts that we can control instead of hoping that the SEC will protect our investments from fraud & greed! And instead of pumping dollars into local governments for infrastructure improvements, take these approved billions (or trillions) of dollars and place them into safe education savings accounts for natural-born American citizens to use for college educations!
I asked that our government give Americans a fighting chance to continue to be the best country in this world...invest in your citizens instead of corporations and your own pockets!
Sorry for the long rant, I just could not help it.
cnotekidwrxsti said:While I think you make a lot of good points I think strongly believe that the reason our country is having such a tough time is because the decisions we make as Americans. Everything that has happened is because of American people needs to spend. People always want more than they actually need to get by in life. This is why the average american has over $10,000 in credit card debt. During the booming real estate market people were buying houses that were way to big for their needs. I understand that having a big expensive house is nice but people forget what it takes to heat big homes, to pay property taxes on big homes, and that flexible interest rates on 5 year arms get rediclous after the intial period.
So what happened during all of this spending....gas prices went up. When the gas prices went up people couldnt afford to pay for their high mortgages, gas for their SUVs, car payments, and heating prices for their 4000 sq homes.
I always say do not live beyond your means. Nothing is guarenteed in this world so you have to position yourself in markets that can not weaken. This is why I went into the environmental sector. Automakers, retailers and insurance companies performance is based of the stability of the economy.
For most people, I think this is a good time to go back to school and get additional education. With the hurt economy, schools will be lowering tuition costs and this could help people get into more defined fields that have more stablility. Hopefully everyone on the boards makes it through these tough times!
Quenepa22 said:No matter what happens, I still think that America is the best country in the world to live in! IMO, the reason that we are in this mess, globally, is because of the greediness of our politicians! I know that corruption will always be in our midst, but, why do we need it so blatantly in lobbyist that feed into the greedy politicians just to sway laws in favor of the lobbyists' employers!
Why can't the politicians truly represent the constituents that elected them. Instead of protecting the best interest of Americans they are busy passing laws that are allowing jobs and companys to move offshore.
Fortunately, I still have a job, but many people in the company I work for have been let go. It is very interesting how this has occured. The company I work for (which I will not name, but is a big player in the American economy) was bought by a group of investors a couple of years back. Suddenly, the offices were filled with people from India being taught how to do the work of the people in these offices. I come to find out that the company has said to their workers that they have a choice to make...1) they could be let go immediately or 2) they could teach their Indian counterpart their position for the next couple of months and then be let go!
The office that used to be pleasure going to became like a "foreign country" within a matter of months! In the mornings, there were taxi's line up at the front entrance dropping off 2 to 3 indian workers.
From time to time, I have to contact different departments for information and I am sorry to say that the language barrier is nearly impossible to overcome!
I am not against folks from other parts of this world having jobs in American companies, but, it seems that our American companies and Americans alike have been sold out to foreign countries.
Our government thinks that bailouts will get us out of this mess and all they are doing is throwing up a smoke screen to the American people in hopes that eventually the recession that we are in will soon end. They really need to clamp down on their own actions as things are bound to get worse than it is already. Yes they can print all the money they want, but it doesn't make a difference when a good portion of America and American businesses are owned by foreign countries.
They need to pass laws that will benefit Americans. My personal feeling is that not one more dime of Americans tax money go to any other financial insitution. Let us remove our 401K's without penalties and place them in accounts that we can control instead of hoping that the SEC will protect our investments from fraud & greed! And instead of pumping dollars into local governments for infrastructure improvements, take these approved billions (or trillions) of dollars and place them into safe education savings accounts for natural-born American citizens to use for college educations!
I asked that our government give Americans a fighting chance to continue to be the best country in this world...invest in your citizens instead of corporations and your own pockets!
Sorry for the long rant, I just could not help it.
200lbhockeyplayer said:
jbone17 said:
