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How Inequality Was Created

enoch says...

@Trancecoach
ok.fair enough.
the reasons why i was making the religion analogy is due to your bullet form responses.
your outright deflecting when points are made...shifting the goal posts to meet your criteria.
you point to the UE and i counter with sweden and finland,basically i used your own premise and your response? not good enough.move those goal posts!

you know who else argues exactly the same way? religious fundamentalists.
so i was just being a bit cheeky with ya and i assumed (wrongly it appears) that you would take it in the spirit it was meant..busting your balls.

my sadness resided in the slow realization that our conversation was one-sided.

that no matter what idea i put forth would be met with the same tactics and it assumes i wish to change your mind.i dont but i truly did want to understand you.
and your replies have been informative and i have a much better understanding now.
that is something i appreciate.
but you were talking at me,not with me.
and you did ignore my questions in regards to the darker side of capitalism.

so i dont know what you thought i was projecting onto you.i was expressing sadness and that i felt foolish.

with my newfound understanding of our relationship and your willingness to address those questions that were left unanswered.

let us begin:
1.we hear so much about the "producers" of wealth and industry.would you admit that this wealth is not gained alone but is in fact the result of a multitude of people,services and infrastructure?
a.if yes.are you willing to acknowledge that workers who bargain for their services, individually and collectively, are also employing market forces?
b.if no.explain.

2.in a free market with no regulation,how would society keep the financial industry in check?

3.do you believe in democracy? if so,then what is wrong with regulations?

4.since we both know the vast corporate wealth we have been witnessing is due to corporations influencing government policy.should these corporations be dissolved completely?or is it government that needs to be expunged? and what would be your solution to fill that void?

5.in a free market intellectual property is an oxymoron,as is copyright.how do you suggest to rid us of those things?

6.isnt democracy a form of free market?

The Decline: The Geography of the Great Recession

Porksandwich says...

Too bad this video didn't show all that economic turn around I've been hearing about. Where every other day if not every day we hear about how the unemployment rate is dropping by whole percentage points and businesses are hiring more now than ever. And then they forget to mention if they count all of the people who ran out of benefits in may/june of 2010 and may no longer be counted as unemployed if at all due to no longer being able to fill out their weekly claims.

I just found it odd that when all these people were losing access to unemployment due to congress not passing bills to extend it past the 99 weeks that our job outlook was turning around by whole percentage points on a month to month basis. I've read that there's another statistics which is usually 8 to 10% higher than the common one used that better counts underemployed and long term unemployed, but they only use the familiar statistic which right now is hovering around 10% because it's a more definite stat. And if 10% represents 23 million, then the other should represent around 50 million.

Of course 23 million, 50 million, 1 billion, or just plain old 100 doesn't really matter if the elected officials only give mouth service to the idea of helping these people out. Eventually the problem will work itself out as these people will slowly go onto other welfare and disability services and very likely remain there..... I mean whose going to hire someone who hasn't worked in an industry that requires current skills and the guy hasn't worked in 2+ years. And if someone can manage to stay mentally stable through 2 years of losing everything they own after it was decided they no longer were worthy of unemployment.....what other problems is this guy going to have when he can't get assistance from other government programs because they are so overburdened by the people who've been on it for years and the massive influx of people seeking it.

I went to a "Job Center" in Ohio for the first time last week. Showed up at 8 AM and there was already a line out the door and down the side of the building with probably 100 people there. When I left around 11 AM, there was still a line there (new people of course) but still 100 or so standing there in 90+ degrees. I still have no idea what they were there for because people inside didn't know or didn't care to answer. I went to meet for WIA (Workforce Investment Act I believe) funds to take a training course to try to open up some job possibilities, and have since been told that there are no funds available and will be no funds at least a month out from now and there's a waiting list they work their way down first. Brother just lost his marbles due to all of the stress this recession/depression is causing, and the government in their profound cost cutting wisdom has shutdown a slew of the mental health facilities in the area. So my brother was stuck in jail to keep him from killing himself where they have a major bed bug problem, so that didn't help his situation. And after a week or two of that a spot opened up in a mental health facility for evaluation which he is now undergoing.........and his caseworker went on vacation and his doctor is on vacation. So he's at the facility to be evaluated for a certain period of time, and he's already behind at least a week due to people overseeing him taking vacation. And the people act like this is a pretty common thing to happen....and all of these people end up back on the streets untreated if they don't show significant symptoms during their evaluation periods. So now my mentally ill brother has probably ran up a 20+ grand bill in tax payer money in about a month partially because they wouldn't extend unemployment to him past 99 weeks which is about 10-15 grand a year. And if they don't treat him properly (which it doesn't look like it's going to happen at this point), he'll be released and either kill himself or be back in there again and there isn't shit anyone in the family can do for him because we're all broke. And since he's an adult, no one can force him to get treatment unless he breaks the law in some way or acts up in front of the cops. It's a wonderfully *sarcasm*STRESS FREE*sarcasm* situation for all involved which will probably lead up to someone else losing their marbles in the process.

This situation is like the same situation you experience when you first enter the job market in a field that typically requires a college degree. All the companies want experience even if hiring at entry level positions with entry level wages. There's this nebulous step where people go from not having enough experience to being employed even though everything else stays the same. No one can ever seem to define what happened to overcome the experience part. Same thing with being unemployed in an employers market, you are unemployable according to anywhere you apply (underqualified, less qualified than others, not enough experience, not enough current experience, not the right degree) and one day that changes. I have always felt the employment process is more about who is the better bullshitter, if you can submit a resume with enough bullshit to get an interview and then bullshit your way through that without being caught...you stand a chance of being employed. Meanwhile if you just present the facts on your resume and don't bullshit them up, you look like a less qualified candidate compared to someone who is barely your equal and definitely not your better.

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