1OldGeezer

Bo,
Good to see you are still on the job.

But, the article you chose just illustrates that excessive benefits create the lower wages, not the work requirement. Thank you for that.

In a free market (where people are NOT paid to NOT work) the low wage jobs are usually an entry stage for people; people move on because they have incentive to improve themselves and they go find better jobs.

However, since Obama came on the scene, we are rapidly losing the free market (and our personal freedoms) to excessive regulations and the KING of it all, Obamacare, which will have a drastic effect on the jobs market. This has already caused a loss of jobs and reduction in wages received by making it imperative for some employers to reduce the hours worked (in order to stay in business).

The real answer is for the government to get out of the way of businesses (less taxes/regulations/restrictions/destructive laws) so they can create a better economy and the need for more workers. Wages go up when employers do not have an excessive number of job applicants. (You do understand how supply and demand affects us all?)

Right now the economy is in a sorry state, and probably will stay that way, until this administration changes it's policies (or we get a new administration).
Keep up the good work.
1oldgeezer

joe1941

You sound more like one of these democrats everyday!http://www.youtube.com/embed/FeTCkoXslsE?rel=0

VladimirPee

rjoeholl

Hey, BoBo, you can have all of the money that I worked for and saved.....on one condition; come and get it.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

You want to go back to the gold standard? Go think again about all your political thinking. It may be as out of touch as your understanding of the gold standard.

VladimirPee

Yes the gold standard would be an improvement but we do not have the finances to return to even a 1/10th value of gold per dollar.

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

At least you are polite and on subject. Thank you. We are indeed in a new economic situation, but it has nothing to do with Obama as a person. We have reached a new point in economic development equivalent in change and effects on people of the "industrial revolution." The situation is megaeconomics or just plain economic bigness. Megafarms have replaced the family farm. Multiple 30,000 dairy cow units with a California dairy corporation expanding into the Midwest is one example of megafarming. Walmart is an example of megamarketing. Exactly how Big Corporatism will affect the future of individualism is a major question without answers...just as is the question of the effects of Big Government. It's not as if we can go back. It's a matter of we're already there and must calmly move forward working around, in, and through the new bigness situation as we did with the industrial revolution. Individualism can and, I believe, will survive and thrive if we are patient and work at solutions.

VladimirPee

The demise of the family farm was accelerated due to the inheritance taxes which were impossible to pay without liquidation of property.

Don Overton Loc: Southwest USA

Typical bulls**t from a right wing i***t.

Don Overton Loc: Southwest USA

Typical bulls**t from a right wing i***t.

VladimirPee

So Don. Tell me about your profile statement. How are Tea Party folks trying to destroy America? Please reply with a shred of intellectual honesty.

jeff smith

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

So? The farm consolidation I am aware of FIRSTHAND had nothing to do with inheritance taxes. The little farms didn't involve big money when the consolidation took hold after WWII. The surviving big farms are corporations & further consolidation is simply a matter of corporate consolidation. Wh**ever the causes and progressions involved, the result has been the virtual end of what was once the majority citizen class of independent farmers. The same development has occurred with "Main Street." Franchises and chain stores have replaced individual businesses. Yes, there are surviving examples of family farms (notably Amish) and individual businesses, but the larger changed pattern is there...not a conspiracy or such, just changed larger economic situation that presents problems to be worked out as best we can. When I was a child, the town had a doctor. Today that town and small towns across America have no family doctor--instead we travel 25 or 30 miles to a "clinic" where we may then be referred to specialists at a more distant larger clinic. Or, now that I live in one of Wisconsin's cities, I can drive a few blocks to one of America's 100 best clinics or across town to another 100 best--actually I drive 130 miles west to one of America's 10 best. BIGNESS--healthcare industry is one of the major economic developments since WWII. ACA was intended to make the industry work better for consumers...whether it will do so is still to be seen. In any case, not something to rant or rave about. Are there workable alternatives? Improvements? Really I would like to go back to when I had my 3 pet chickens in a coop my step-father built in the back corner of our lot on Conner Avenue in Fountain City, TN., next to the flock of chickens the neighbor in back kept. I wish it were still the time when the family doctor and family dentist lived in town when one rarely had occasion to see, but those days are gone. My home farm community in south central Michigan no longer exists as a community. So? Now the question is how my children will manage and what kind of world my grandchildren will live in. I certainly hope it won't be a world where bitter old geezers rant and rave about political conspiracies on the internet. ha.

VladimirPee

jon

The large farming conglomerates were able to purchase and consolidate small family farms because they were forced to sell due to inheritance taxes. This went beyond the Amish.


New legislation that jumps the death tax to 55 percent of estates exceeding $1 million threatens 526,421 family farms, of about 25 percent of all farms in America, according to a Senate analysis.

http://www.ijreview.com/2012/12/25030-coming-55-death-tax-to-threaten-over-half-million-family-farms/

jonhatfield Loc: Green Bay, WI

Dennis--you have extraordinary command of details...now look at the large picture. The American family farm as it existed for 200 years is GONE. It was unique to America. The thousand and several thousand acre farms you are talking about are not the family farm of our past. They are consolidations of past farms. Where twenty farms existed when I was a child, one consolidated operation exists today. You need to wrap your mind around the big picture. It has happened--it's a changed world of BIG BIG & BIGGER now whether we like it or not.