Greetings good citizen,
Well, the SOTU speech last night has us all scratching our heads, because it was nothing we haven’t heard a thousand times before.
Maybe it was comforting when more competent leaders told us we were in the process of rectifying longstanding wrongs…but in my mid-fifties, I’ve heard all of this crap before and guess what, it’s getting worse!
Isn’t insanity defined as doing the same act repeatedly, each time expecting a different outcome?
Pray tell, explain to me how throwing money at an education system that trains our kids for jobs that aren’t here any more is going to help?
This is nearly as ludicrous as letting banks ‘audit’ themselves. Given the, er, ‘integrity’ of modern banking, just how ‘trustworthy’ would these self-audits be?
I wouldn’t touch ‘em with a fifty-foot pole!
But I digress, back to the ‘how we doin’ speech…
I’d start with a different first question. I’d start by asking how much longer are we going to put up with this BS?
Because the answer to the first question is moot. There used to be a lot more jobs here BUT our sell-out politicians signed ‘free trade agreements’ with every Banana Republic on the planet, pauperizing the nation as a result.
So don’t ask STUPID QUESTIONS like ‘How do we ‘attract’ more jobs to our shores?’ when you already know the answer.
We have to ‘out Banana Republic the Banana Republics’ and throw our STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE TOILET…(so ‘a few’ can be rich.)
Worse good citizen, you’d all have to be blind not to see that this is exactly the direction we are headed in!
Good for the capitalist, not so good for you and yours.
I’d use a stronger adjective than ‘good’ but this has to go on an unfirewalled page too.
Left unchecked good citizen our civilization is headed the way of Easter Island…all because nobody has the courage to stand up to ‘the insane money men’ and tell them ‘no!’
I do it regularly but as you can see a single voice has no effect…all I do is annoy them. (Even that remark is ‘vanity’, it far more likely they don’t know I exist!)
But we left two statements ‘unchallenged’, let us return to our ‘quote of the day’…
Our number two ‘mission’ is to how do we ‘equip’ our people to do the ‘jobs of tomorrow’?
Again, stupid question, we do it the ‘old fashioned way’…ON THE JOB TRAINING!
Our numbskull politicians would have you believe the people who perform commerce’s heavy lifting learned to do what they do in college.
We old people know better, AFTER college, your new employer TRAINS YOU on how THEY WANT IT DONE!
To the point that most college grads wonder why they bothered taking on all of that debt only to be spoon-fed everything they do.
But they don’t say anything because they write it off as ‘the cost of the job’. They invested tens of thousand in an education that will pay them back a million over the course of their career.
Without the degree (that they don’t use) they wouldn’t have gotten the job.
Simple.
But they want YOU to believe it was hard…when nothing changes.
Now we arrive at the last, er, ‘assertion’, which is as comical as it is farcial!
How do we ‘insure’ these new jobs pay a living wage?
How sad is it nobody has an answer to the second half of that statement (What is ‘a living wage?’)
Once upon a time after Europe was desolated by WWII and the last man standing was the US, a living wage was a ‘middle class’ income. Where the multiple redundant ‘middle manager’ made enough money to swing that (modest) home in the suburbs, put his kids through school and sock away enough for retirement all before reaching age 55!
Jr. got his twenty year mortgage in his twenties so it was paid off by the time he turned forty(ish) and he had the last twenty years to sock away cash to retire ‘in style’.
Now things are different.
There are no ‘middle managers’ just as there is no ‘redundancy’, the ‘market’ is supposed to take care of those trifles…if a void presents itself, the market will fill it (despite the enormous cost.)
The few have already waxed richer than their needs, pauperizing the rest of the world. Now we have enormous sums with no place to go and the global economy is locked in a dead stall…all so a few could be rich.
Since the rest of us have been condemned to death by this reckless action of our politicians, let us pray the rich are enjoying their wealth…and will enjoy doing their own heavy lifting after we’re gone.
Although I doubt we’ll vanish completely…
Stupid is as stupid does.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
(This post is ‘related’ to the larger series examining our civilization and how to repair/replace it.)
Well, the SOTU speech last night has us all scratching our heads, because it was nothing we haven’t heard a thousand times before.
Maybe it was comforting when more competent leaders told us we were in the process of rectifying longstanding wrongs…but in my mid-fifties, I’ve heard all of this crap before and guess what, it’s getting worse!
Isn’t insanity defined as doing the same act repeatedly, each time expecting a different outcome?
Pray tell, explain to me how throwing money at an education system that trains our kids for jobs that aren’t here any more is going to help?
This is nearly as ludicrous as letting banks ‘audit’ themselves. Given the, er, ‘integrity’ of modern banking, just how ‘trustworthy’ would these self-audits be?
I wouldn’t touch ‘em with a fifty-foot pole!
But I digress, back to the ‘how we doin’ speech…
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
PRESIDENT OBAMA, in his State of the Union address.
I’d start with a different first question. I’d start by asking how much longer are we going to put up with this BS?
Because the answer to the first question is moot. There used to be a lot more jobs here BUT our sell-out politicians signed ‘free trade agreements’ with every Banana Republic on the planet, pauperizing the nation as a result.
So don’t ask STUPID QUESTIONS like ‘How do we ‘attract’ more jobs to our shores?’ when you already know the answer.
We have to ‘out Banana Republic the Banana Republics’ and throw our STANDARD OF LIVING IN THE TOILET…(so ‘a few’ can be rich.)
Worse good citizen, you’d all have to be blind not to see that this is exactly the direction we are headed in!
Good for the capitalist, not so good for you and yours.
I’d use a stronger adjective than ‘good’ but this has to go on an unfirewalled page too.
Left unchecked good citizen our civilization is headed the way of Easter Island…all because nobody has the courage to stand up to ‘the insane money men’ and tell them ‘no!’
I do it regularly but as you can see a single voice has no effect…all I do is annoy them. (Even that remark is ‘vanity’, it far more likely they don’t know I exist!)
But we left two statements ‘unchallenged’, let us return to our ‘quote of the day’…
Our number two ‘mission’ is to how do we ‘equip’ our people to do the ‘jobs of tomorrow’?
Again, stupid question, we do it the ‘old fashioned way’…ON THE JOB TRAINING!
Our numbskull politicians would have you believe the people who perform commerce’s heavy lifting learned to do what they do in college.
We old people know better, AFTER college, your new employer TRAINS YOU on how THEY WANT IT DONE!
To the point that most college grads wonder why they bothered taking on all of that debt only to be spoon-fed everything they do.
But they don’t say anything because they write it off as ‘the cost of the job’. They invested tens of thousand in an education that will pay them back a million over the course of their career.
Without the degree (that they don’t use) they wouldn’t have gotten the job.
Simple.
But they want YOU to believe it was hard…when nothing changes.
Now we arrive at the last, er, ‘assertion’, which is as comical as it is farcial!
How do we ‘insure’ these new jobs pay a living wage?
How sad is it nobody has an answer to the second half of that statement (What is ‘a living wage?’)
Once upon a time after Europe was desolated by WWII and the last man standing was the US, a living wage was a ‘middle class’ income. Where the multiple redundant ‘middle manager’ made enough money to swing that (modest) home in the suburbs, put his kids through school and sock away enough for retirement all before reaching age 55!
Jr. got his twenty year mortgage in his twenties so it was paid off by the time he turned forty(ish) and he had the last twenty years to sock away cash to retire ‘in style’.
Now things are different.
There are no ‘middle managers’ just as there is no ‘redundancy’, the ‘market’ is supposed to take care of those trifles…if a void presents itself, the market will fill it (despite the enormous cost.)
The few have already waxed richer than their needs, pauperizing the rest of the world. Now we have enormous sums with no place to go and the global economy is locked in a dead stall…all so a few could be rich.
Since the rest of us have been condemned to death by this reckless action of our politicians, let us pray the rich are enjoying their wealth…and will enjoy doing their own heavy lifting after we’re gone.
Although I doubt we’ll vanish completely…
Stupid is as stupid does.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
(This post is ‘related’ to the larger series examining our civilization and how to repair/replace it.)
