President Obama announced that he is going to create jobs is a complete joke — it is a joke when anybody says it in today’s technology world. President Obama should have a more modest goal — if he wants one focused around the number of people employed. That is, it would be a great accomplishment if he could just stop the job loses. But he won’t be able to do that .. and here is why –
I can go into any office environment and eliminate half the staff utilizing technology. It isn’t even that hard. There is so much that technology can displace today. The good news is that the deployment of people who know how to do this is in short supply. Also, people don’t like to change which can slow down the process. However, even with all of that, it is happening and will continue to happen over time.
After getting rid of half the staff, you can get rid of half of what is left by outsourcing them to cheaper labor markets.
The solution to the unemployed in America is not the typical cut taxes and hope some jobs are created. That will not work — ever again. The only solution is to completely revamp the economic system and even what money is. As America Doomed and explained many times before, there is plenty of work that needs to be done in America. Just drive around in virtually any city and you will see lots of need. Buildings in decay, infrastructure needing to be replace — not to mention the countless number of homeless people and the people who can’t get health care. There is lots of jobs — waiting to be filled.
The problem is the the free enterprise, greed-based, system will never hire people for those jobs unless they can monetize it — make profits — and quickly. That is, if American Bullshit Capitalism can’t figure out how to make money, they declare there is no need. It is that simple. And ridiculous. As if making money and need have anything at all to do with one another.
When you see a family living in a tent, there is a need — a greater need than I can even imagine. However, how can those fortune 500 clowns make money on the black of people who can’t even afford an apartment. They can’t and you don’t need to go to Harvard Business School to know that. Sure — maybe somebody can make a few tents and convince a city to buy them — but that is hardly anything that a General Electric would be interested in. In fact, the banks aren’t happy if they are not stealing $100 BILLION in overdraft protection from ordinary Americans. Fuck them all.
President Obama is beyond clueless with his little job summits. He can have all he wants but he won’t even be able to protect the jobs that exist today. It is clear — this is not the guy to figure out that there is something horribly wrong in this country. By the way, the Republicans are even more clueless with their asinine tax cuts and their “birther” and “tea bag” movements.
America is doomed.
Well, I find myself agreeing with you on most of it. But that’s good. We need consensus to accomplish anything through the political system. However, alot of the homeless are worthless by choice. I run a small maintenance business and live in a remote area. More and more I see the illegal immigrants arrive to do the work that stupid, skillless, lazy, drugged up, drunk, and welfare sucking Americans won’t do. I have given these losers a chance in the past. Most of them don’t return after you pay them until the dope wears off. I just fire them when they return. And several have stolen my tools to pawn for dope and alcohol. Pitiful Pieces of Shit, they are. Most can’t read or write at an 8th grade level, can’t read product instructions, can’t follow schematic diagrams, can’t even speak in a complete sentance. All have graduated “Gubsamunts Skrool”. These retards are a typical government product. Worthless. That is why I always resist more government. I know what you get. Hopefully, there are many private charities, historical societies, innovative philanthopists, etc… who will help put a dent in some of the urban decay. But government welfare money created the decay. Pouring more of that down a rat hole won’t fix anything. Most of it is embezzeled or inexpicably disappears. Ends up buying more crack. I finally have 2 employees that I can count on, but they are both over 50 years of age. They were raised with the work ethic, not the victim mentality. They know that they must do satisfactory work in order to be paid. They weren’t victims of society. I don’t owe them anything unless they produce something for me. AmeriKa is doomed.
Don’t agree. America is not doomed per say. The “masses” will eventually clue in to the fact that capitalism has served the few well, while starving the majority. It is inevitable. Mass enlightenment happens every so many 100 years or so. America is not immune from that. When it happens, God (if there is one) help those who fed at the expense of others. Obama is just another clueless fuck in the line up. I, for one, can’t wait to see the downfall of the greed of America or any other capitalist country in the world. Just like the commies, this one is doomed to fail as well. Look at your neighbour next time you are in the driveway and try to figure out whether he’ll help you next time the power goes out. Good luck suckers, Darwin lives, survival of the fittest. Hope you have guns and bullets, because I do.
Justice served:
You are an optimist. I expect little from we the sheeple(er people yeah). Americans have been conditioned to bend over and take it. When companies began sending jobs overseas to cheaper foreign markets, did the people say no way–how can you do that to our “fellow Americans”. No..instead they said “tough luck pal” as they went to WalMart to buy their discounted crap. When people were brought in on h1 visas to do jobs that Americans won’t do(like those nasty Engineering, Accounting and IT jobs that millions of Americans did do before well they were no longer allowed to do), Americans said”tough luck pal” to those who’d been displaced and went back to WalMArt. We are not 1 nation but 300 million little nations taught to look out only for ourselves even if its at the expense of others. By the time the great unwashed become aware the top 1% of the nation will have all the power, all the money and all the guns. My vision of the future? A giant plantation where 99% of Americans are slaves too afraid of the whips of their masters to do anything more than grovel. Is that the future? or now?
@lester figler
So basically what you want is facism, which is already happening. Corporatism at it’s finest. 1% own 90% of the wealth. All you have to do is go to a third world country to see what kind of America you would get. That government “edumucation” you speak of used to work at keeping a highly educated population and an even playing field for people to succeed. However, after 30 years of Conservative bible thumping Reaganomics of gutting and cutting the education system and other social programs, which is on purpose, you get more and more idiots. Government “welfare” didn’t create this, greed did. The Profit over People mantra or Profit off of People. (See Military Industrial Complex) The more you treat people like animals, the more they will react like animals.
The key is the sentence “raised with a work ethic”, which is what these guys you hired and fired have not been raised up in. I bet if you asked them where they grew up or how, it wouldn’t surprise you how they got this way.
Our current system in America does not give people from the bottom even a chance anymore, because of lack of support from the Gov. not because of too much support. This is one reason why I think this country eventually will break apart. It’s too big to maintain itself and it is too divisive ideologically. States will morph into individual countries eventually.
Tom, Tom, Tom. What have you been smoking? Who would ever want facism? That is what we have now. Facism is basically the marriage of “gubsamunts and corporations” for the purpose of financial rape. That is the America WE live in. Where do you detect that I’m a facist. I’m a self sufficient Libertarian who absolutely detests reliance on anything as crappy and shitty as “Da gubsamunts”. Just look at the “Gubsamunts Created” shitholes like Filthadelphia and Detroilet!!! Go into the welfare ghettos and show me the progress that these 3rd generation parasites are making. I anxiously await any example you can give me that something good ever came out of dependance on “da gubsamunts”. The “gubsamunts edjeemaKashun” system worked at one time before the Libtards decided that everyone was equal and the same, thus starting a system of “dumbing down” rather than “lifting up”. I was basically educated in Catholic schools and universities. But I did attend a “gubsamunts HI! Skroo” for 2 years in NY State (upstate) and this was in the late 60′s when you say that da gubsamunts Skrools were in their glory. I transfered (moved) in the 11th grade. After some testing, I was immediately promoted to Senior year, because I was so far ahead of the idiots. And we didn’t even have “diversity” yet. So when you take into account that certain ethnic groups simply can’t perform up to standards, then the standards are lowered, rather than raised, so that they don’t get bad “touchy feelings” (Libtards “feel” alot, and “touch” and “share”, ususally sharing ignunce and stupidity). So much for Reagan and funding cuts. Anyway, they don’t thump Bibles in Gubsamunts Skrools. They thump them in Catholic and other parochial schools and the graduates are way ahead of anything that da gubsamunts can produce. “Work ethic”? Where did they grow up? In a single mother welfare household, brought to you courtisy of the Federal Gubsamunts.If welfare worked, we should be recruiting our best and brightest from South Central LA, Naw Orleans, Detroilet, South Chicago, Filthadelphia, and crack and crime sewers like DC and Baltimore. I mean, these people are gubsamunts housed, gubsamunts fed, gubsamunts ejeekated, and heat their homes on gubsamunts largess. But they are worthless. I’ll take an illegal Mexican any day of the week. I’d hate to be working with a Mexican roofing crew in the 100 degree Georgia sun. And I have a strong work ethic. I just don’t think that I could keep up the pace.
I agree, our current system in America doesn’t give people at the bottom a chance, nor much of one for people in the middle (middle class disappearing in the wrong direction, down, not up). According to da gubsamunts, WELFARE would end poverty and ignunce in AmeriKa. Remember Johnson and his “war on poverty”? All it did was breed millions of dependant people who simply can’t function in our modern technological world. I for one, can, but have chosen not to do so. I do fine by simply removing myself from this toxic stew and avoiding contact with the “outside world” as much as possible. AmeriKa is too far gone to salvage. It is now a third or fourth world country. And I have traveled to over 40 of them in my life. All of the sypmptoms are visible now. AmeriKa will and should break apart. The sooner the better. It is truely Balkanized, thanks to diversity. It is the tower of Babel. Hopefully I will be in the Dominican Reppublic, Brazil, or Panama when the shit hits the fan. Let’s hope it “morphs” rather than explodes. AmeriKa is irretrievably doomed!!!