I think alot of people are chosing to be unemployed because they lost their job and can’t find another one with the same benefits and pay as their last job. They refuse to work retail because they want off the holiday. There is nothing wrong with that, but it is making unemployment stay inflated because they would rather not work than be away from their families for the holidays due to a part time almost minimum wage job.

Sad thing is that after christmas, there really won’t be any job available to these people anymore as employers cut back even further.

Then, corporations are seriously understaffing their stores. This puts a huge burden on those employed. We are now having to do the job of 5 people. At a certain point you just burn out. Production suffers along with the economy.

The greed of the CEO is comming to a head, and I don’t think the current generation is going to sit back and take it this time. They are refusing to work for them.

Simple Solution: Make every employer except essential services close for at least 4 days around christmas and force employers to give at least 2 weeks of vaction automatically when hired. You would see employment sky rocket.

Vive la revolution!

China will never invade America. Even before the 1st missile was launched, China would have lost $2 TRILLION dollars.

Besides, if you study Chinese history, they’ve never been interested in world domination. At the height of Chinese naval power during the Ming dynasty, China merely conducted extensive trade and never engaged in slavery.

The only hint of them using their power was that leaders of nations in their sphere of influence had to be “confirmed” by the Ming Court which is basically perfunctory.

Even Red China did not control N.Korea the way Russia controlled her client states.

No, there will be no war with the US unless the US intervenes in a domestic issue, like Taiwan. It’s far more probable that the good people of Taiwan will be sold to China.

I might take the alternative approach more seriously if those advocating it would explain exactly what it is. Otherwise, I might as well be listening to Howard Beale. Near as I can tell, the alternative has to do with cutting taxes while simultaneously balancing the budget, getting capitalists to do the right thing while simultaneously deregulating their activities, and stimulating the economy without spending any public money. The crumbling infrastructure will apparently regenerate itself spontaneously. Energy and climate issues never really existed in the first place. We can have Social Security, but remain untainted by the curse of socialism. Possibly by letting Wall Street take care of it.

His gut feeling is that we are heading to a violent reaction from the street.

Absolutely true. People are completely frustrated. If there is any banking or agricultural disruption, you’ll see riots.

The new faces of day labor
U.S. citizens are joining immigrants in store parking lots

Friday, November 6, 2009

It sounds like a George Lopez joke.

“Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.”

Except it’s true.

In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work.

Experts say the slow-starting but seemingly inexorable trend is occurring nationwide.

“It’s the equivalent of selling apples in the Great Depression,” said Harley Shaiken, chairman of the Center for Latin American studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

But it is not only a sign of the times, they add. If the numbers of citizens among the day laborers in cities across the country continue to grow, it’s likely to increase the ire of followers of TV host Lou Dobbs and others who will see illegal immigrants as stealing food off the tables of the nation’s native-born or naturalized poor.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/nov/02/new-faces-day-labor/