What Can We Do to Improve the Economic Stuation?

We moan and groan, but is there anyway we can help someone, anyone?

My mother -in-law took a homeless man under her wing and gave him money, pumpkin pie and kind words.
She told us about him and also told us his name was Ron.
After her second broken hip, we found him and donated to his cause. We should probably look him up again.
What do you think?

Dave's barber said people cut their own hair now. Maybe those with means should spend to help provide jobs.

I wish the very wealthy would spend their tax cuts instead of hoarding them.
The banks are helping no one.
We don't want the govt to spend.

Ideas, please?

1/20/2011

Sorry I didn't see this I was out in the garden feeding
Gertrude and Heathcliff the morning doves along with
the sparrows , hungry little bums..

I don't think anyone has the answer, I don't think Politicians
give a dam about the working class of this country, it boggles
my mind to know that there are 16 Million people out of work !
Many companies don't want to hire so they use less employees
who have to do double work plus they'll make more of a profit.
I know I worked in retail, at first they hire over 100 people then
within a month it was down to 35 people and when they opened
the store in the morning there were only less than 10 people.

I think the Govt. should have re-training programs , retrain
people in other fields, the health care industry is growing by
leaps and bounds...Children need to be taught and I mean taught,
so why not train people to be teachers, the children of this
country need education, the more teachers we have the better.


Cheers..Joe

Thanks, Joe,

Pay the teachers more too. Hire the best and pay them well.

Stop fighting useless wars.

Ann

Stopping wars, which shuts down the defense industry, causes another set of economic problems. It's a cycle that feeds on itself.

It used to be that a war pulled us out of an economic decline. It put everybody to work and conditioned everybody to do with less. Shortages, gas rations, victory gardens, Rosie the Riveter, air raid wardens, do your part, there's a war on. I don't think it can ever work that way again.

Ann,

Great idiea, if only we could do that!

Al,

You are so right, times have changed.

It seems to me that very little of the way things used to work will ever work again. We live in a different world. The shift from the Agricultural Era to the Industrial Era had a lot of problems, but the change was not nearly so rapid as this from the Industrial into Information. Much of the answer, I would think, begins with the realization that our worldview has permanently changed.

Ann

Ann,

You are so right. Imagine the shock if one hAd been unconscious the last two years!

1/21/2011


On another point, no one does anything about the
gas prices ! They've talked about this since the 1970's
I know in 1978 I was stuck on gas lines ! Here today gas
is $3.05 a gallon, if gas goes to $5.00 a gallon no one
would be able to drive, food will skyrocket, do you see
anyone in Washington talking about this , no ! We need
Congress to declare an emergency, roll back prices back
three years and no increases for five years ! But they don't
have the KAHONAS to do this, their afraid of the oil cartel !


Cheers..Joe

Joe,

Why have we not cut our consumption and dependence on foreign oil?
We have had plenty of warning.
The minute an oil crisis ends the gas hogs reappear.

1/21/2011

Alice..

Their still building large cars and people are driving them !
When gas hits, $5-,$6-,$7- a gallon watch they'll trade
them in for smaller cars...Can you picture millions of mini
coopers on the highway , I own a Ford Focus, great on
gas....I like when I read Europeans saying Oh we pay a
high price for gas for years, but they don't understand
the USA is a big country, some people travel miles just
to get to work......


Cheers..Joe

I received the following in an email from my daughter this morning. Don't know the source, but if it is important, I'll inquire. Comments are attributed to Bill Maher.:


"Only
42 percent of Republicans believe Obama was born in the United States. That's an
amazing statistic. How come in America Christians are the only ones who won't
take anything on faith?" —Bill Maher

"I will show you President Obama's
birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma." —Bill
Maher

"The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are
always the people who are most certain of them." —Bill Maher

"If
conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to
call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off
human pain.'" —Bill Maher

Abe,

True and sad. Lies and rumors are hard to stop.

It is particularly vexing to see Christians leading the parade of msinformation. Where is our separation of church and state?

Religion and politics are not a good mixture.

1/21/2011


Alice..

" AMEN !"


Cheers..Joe

Alice said:

Quote :

Religion and politics are not a good mixture.

Ann