How can U,S, unemployment rate go down?

More than 1/2 of China is illiterate. About the same as the US.

The American capitalist model is unraveling. Find whatever or whomever scapegoat you need to make you feel comfortable. But like everything else it grew, it thrived, and now it must die. #On2DaNext

dingle wrote:

12/10

Thank you sir.

55% Illiteracy wrote:

More than 1/2 of China is illiterate. About the same as the US.

what did you expect? half of America is minorities. and they keep having more illiterate babies, and blaming white people for all their problems.

There's more Anglo Whites that are illiterate in the U.S. than all the other groups combined.

Aren't most babies illiterate?

I hope you all realize that this a very lame imitation of a Chinese person. I think its more like Bob from Indiana who reads up on all the CATO institute studies.

obvious answer wrote:

55% Illiteracy wrote:

More than 1/2 of China is illiterate. About the same as the US.

what did you expect? half of America is minorities. and they keep having more illiterate babies, and blaming white people for all their problems.

You’ve stumbled onto one of your many probably intractable predicaments facing the USA right now.

Take California, once America’s reputed richest, most glamorous state - now fast approaching a Third World basket case.

At one time, we were told that California alone, was the world’s seventh or eighth richest economy.

Now having to borrow billions just to remain solvent, a close look at the statistics brings up the alarming and ominous trends.

Government figures show that 78 percent of all welfare recipients in that state are of immigrant or nonwhite origin.

And California already owes $8.6 billion for welfare payments.

You imagine California is still a majority white state?

Not so - current demographic estimates say that California lacks a majority ethnic group and is considered a “minority-majority state.”

Official figures sat that non-Hispanic whites make up 42.3 percent of the population.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 43 percent of California residents speak a language other than English at home.

Putting it in rather blunt terms - California is starting to resemble the Third World because it has been invaded by Third Worlders.

The America and the American people my parents knew, back in 1940, rolled up their sleeves and in 4 years produced 296,000 aircraft, produced 12.5 million rifles and 86,333 tanks, the shipyards had launched 147 aircraft carriers, 952 warships, 5,200 merchant ships and 88,000 landing craft.

Unfortunately, the America and it’s citizens, circa 2010, isn’t the America that built what was once, the greatest country on earth.

I agree. California is a basket case with segregation and rampant police crimes. California is going down hill. The border with Mexico should be opened so that new immigrants can re-vitalize California like they have always done in the past.

I can give you my perspective.

I am born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA.

My father was a steelworker,a nd my mom stayed at home with all the children.

My father used to shake his head about his union and say " we did our share of picketing, worked overtime, and made a better life for ourseleves and for those to come in our union. But, it seems too many of these kids today are getting in these unions without paying the price like we had to, and are making demands and expecting to be treated like they have a Harvard degree."

What my father meant was, they (the older generation) did the dirty work with pickets and suffered through turmoil in the horrible days of the unions, to make things better for today. And, the members today abuse those priviliges, and come to expect them. He feels the unions were a good thing, but are now a larger reason this country is ruining itself.

Think about it. What is the largest reason the car manufacturers are hurting?

It's the hundreds of millions of dollars paid in pensions to men who retired at 50, with 8th grade educations, after working on the assembly line for 30+ years. They receive full medical, health, dental and about $80k-$120k per year pension!! It adds up...alot.

Add to this many other unions that ran factories into the ground, or forced the owner to have no other choice but to move his business overseas for cheaper labor etc.

Americans don't think. They don't want to know why that shirt cost $11, and not $36. It cost $11 because the tag says it was made in China. If it was made in America, it would cost $36. Why? Because the union wages paid to the American who made it, would drive the cost of the product up.

When is this going to end?

I see people around me with no or very little education, making demands. They made no effort to improve themselves. Yet, they expect the same treatment and wages as those that have made that effort.

This is what is killing our own country.

Having said that, I would live here over China anyday.

Ask yourself this; Do you think more Americans move to China to live or the reverse?

Excatly!

Everybody wants to come here. And do you know what they do when they get here?

Make demands.

Just like my father said.

He was a genius.

Seems a logical solution to limit unemployment benefits and use those funds saved to create jobs. Don't allow people to sit on their arse and collect money.

It would probably also be helpful, but politically incorrect to limit welfare to unwed moms. Allow one child and in order to receive benefits they must prove evidence of birth control. Cut the balls off any guy with more than 1 child born out of wedlock.

Thats nuts. creating employment is simple. Quit taxing it. Do away with all Payroll taxes, give everyone a $100,000 standard deduction, increase taxes on wealth and consumption, cut the bloated military and health spending. You will instantly have full employment and unemployment benefits will go down on their own. Has anyone paid attention to Germany? They are by far the biggest success story in the world right now. Near full employment, sustained high growth economy, low inflation, and they still have a very strong social safety net bigger than the U.S. Not to mention clean air and clean water. They are more or less doing what I laid out above.

Ray wrote:

Seems a logical solution to limit unemployment benefits and use those funds saved to create jobs. Don't allow people to sit on their arse and collect money.

It would probably also be helpful, but politically incorrect to limit welfare to unwed moms. Allow one child and in order to receive benefits they must prove evidence of birth control. Cut the balls off any guy with more than 1 child born out of wedlock.

At Berlin 2009 I found the streets filthy and in disrepair. The people live in little flats and look depressed. It's obvious that the German lost WWII and the Soviets raped all the women for 40 years. Germany sucks.

Bob Chan wrote:

dingle wrote:

12/10

Thank you sir.

14/10

My trollometer was off the charts at "I am from Chinese" and yet most engaged in serious responses to your post.

Your "Thank you sir" is even further proof, because if you were an ignorant Chinese you would not know that was a complement. Yet despite all of this, you will still get loads of additional serious responses. Good Work my friend.

I suggest you walk around some U.S. cities and get back to me, Then walk the poorer sections of China. Keep in mind, Detroit didn't even have the burden of having to climb out of a totally destroyed city in the aftermath of ww2. Or be under Soviet control for decades.

And btw, yes the OP was a fraud. See my earlier post in this thread.

Germany sucks. Their cars are terrible and have been slaughtered by Lexus and Acura. You hardly every see a German car in America nowadays. Merkel is a neo-Nazi who love killing Semite Muslims for her 4th Reich. The sidewalks in Berlin were all cracked. No toilets. Dog Crap and Litter everywhere. Sig Heil to you Bitch !

TheR eal uncleB wrote:

End capitalism.

Why support a system that enriches 1% at the expense of the other 99%?

You are dumb if you think what has been going on here the past 10 years is capitalism.

clearly a troll, but the easiest way to decrease unemployment is to lower the Social Security age. instead we continue raising the rate so people work longer and longer not allowing more productive younger workers to find jobs because of older workers who can't afford to retire yet.

Not a bad idea. And contrary to popular belief we can afford it. But I think there is plenty of work to do for people of all ages if they want it. And lots of older unemployed people do want it. Its just that we have an economic system that rewards having wealth, not creating wealth.

just saying wrote:

clearly a troll, but the easiest way to decrease unemployment is to lower the Social Security age. instead we continue raising the rate so people work longer and longer not allowing more productive younger workers to find jobs because of older workers who can't afford to retire yet.