[quote=Rt.66][quote=flu]Don’t forget to blame Japan,China, imports, immigrants (legal or illegal), walmart, honda, toyota, hyundai, elitists (i.e. folks with college degrees), doctors, lawyers,wall street bankers for our problems.
All of these traitors are destroying the middle class.
Buchanan for 2012:
“Bring Pride Back to Americans (some at least)”
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Flu i don’t blame Japan or Toyota and I never said ANYTHING about imigrants you nerd. Japan is doing what they need to do, they fight for jobs. I blame people like you. Tiny minded, self-centered, ego nuts that can’t see the big picture. You are not alone, there are too many like you.
You will in the next few years come to a point where you feel as though your job is threatened and at that point hopefully you will get a sick feeling in your stomach over calling for hundreds of thousands of folks to lose their jobs because you, from far, far away have judged them lazy, over paid and incompetent. Karhma’s a bitch.
No entire work force is like that, including the UAW. There are good and bad workers in every large company and every union.
I never said Drs., lawyers or folks with degrees are elite and you know it. Most people know what is meant by “elite” and I’m tired of trying to dumb things down for you.
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For everyone else, apologies on the Buchanan thing. I only like his trade stance (should have noted that).
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Yawn, this wasn’t personal but since you decided to take it to that level…
I’ll tell you what I think the problem with America is. There are too many damn hypocrits like you that bark about patriotism on one hand and who’s actions going completely contradictory to what you preach.
Folks like you complain about losing jobs, complain about getting outsourced, complain about how opportunities escape you…How foreign competition is killing the U.S. And folks like you suggest to regulate the hell out of imports, remove “choices” that american consumers make everyday on what they want and what they don’t want (the fabric of this country), and instead install a totalitarian system of “trade” for which the government has tremendous oversight in what citizens can buy/can’t buy and whether they have to buy or not.
….But at the same time, folks like you, aren’t willing to give up any of the modern day advances for which the majority is made by everyone in world.
….You’re not willing to give up your TV, your computer (which you conveniently are using to blog your patriotism hypocracy), your cell phones, pdas, almost all of which are made in China/Taiwan/Japan.
….You drive a cars from a US company that where made by overseas imported into the U.S. and didn’t contribute 1 iota to the “U.S. assembly line workforce”, and yet you shun those that purchase an import Honda/Toyotas made and assembled in Ohio. You still shop at Walmart for cheap clothes, cheap crap, all made overseas, you buy your food from discounters that import things from overseas rather than spending “more” on organic grown locally because “it’s too expensive”
….You want most of the modern day conveniences but don’t want to pay nominal dollars for it….You want to pay less than $800 for a computer that is 100 times more powerful than a computer from 14 years ago that I paid $3000 for, and then you wonder why companies keep trying to move assembly/manufacturing to places that can pay people $.10/hr to assemble these things.
….You grip about how your skills/labor/expertise is gradually eroding because the economy/industry has changed but you don’t do anything about it to keep up with the way the world is turning…You don’t send your kids to get technical degree (you look down on people who decided to invest in their brain in meaningful technical way by calling these folks “nerd” whatever). You’d rather tell your kids it’s ok to pursue things like Shakespearian History in college or some other bullshit major… or you conveniently tell them why even bother going to get a technical degree or learn… just go to work and be an assembly line worker , and after 10 years you can expect the company and the government to take care of you without any active management on your part to keep up with the world is going, keep up with where the opportunities are,etc.
Meanwhile, you can’t understand why those people put their mind and effort into continuously self-improving can’t relate to you and why they aren’t afraid of being completely outsourced…Because you haven’t figured out that all your learning/knowledge/etc/opportunities doesn’t just come by you sitting on your fat ass munching a double whopper while watching Jerry Springer without doing anything else….and that if you don’t continuously work on improving your situation (whether it’s your career, your financial situation, relationships, whatever), no one else will be looking out for you and eventually you will atrophy and be a piece of trash thrown out on the street. Folks like you focus on a day to day “job” rather than building a “career” (possibly not even knowing the difference), and as long as you get a paycheck and can pay the bills in the short term, that’s all that matters.
..Gradually as the world around you changes and internationalizes, your world gets smaller. It’s harder for you to relate, it’s harder for you to provide what everyone else needs, and pretty soon you find your no longer in tune with the rest of the global economy. Your quality of living deterrioates because suddenly there are others than can do what you can do for a lot less, you are no longer bringing anything else new to the table that someone else can’t do…If you were one of those smarter people, you would have mastered your finances all during this time so that when this day of reckoning came, you wouldn’t be screwed. But a majority of folks don’t, after you pissed away your finances on all that bullshit you bought from overseas.
…Then it hits….Your up a shits creek…But it’s not your fault. It’s the government, it’s the foreign companies, it’s Americans who are traitors that don’t buy the products you need them to buy for your own well being. It’s all the H1-B people how can do the work that you didn’t want to do that you didn’t want to go to college for because it “didn’t pay enough.” It’s employer’s fault for not hiring you. It’s rich people’s fault for not paying for more taxes. It’s the government’s fault for not bailing out your company. It’s everyone’s fault and responsibility for taking care of you except yourself.
Yes, you’re right.. Karma is a bitch, and it came back and bit people like this in the ass.
