[quote=CA renter]The problem is that you **can’t** have a recovery without a painful cleansing. We will face this pain, one way or another. I’d rather see the culprits behind this mess feel the pain more than those who’ve tried to be responsible and do the right thing.
The pain will be felt;
If we had let the gamblers (and much of the financial system) implode, the pain would have been very sharp, but we would be far closer to a REAL recovery than we are now. We’ve only made the problems worse.[/quote]
[quote=CA renter prior note] It means that people who want to work are able to find jobs that can support themselves and their families. [/quote]
Here in lies the cold reality facing America. The skill sets of too much of the populace is incapable of generating the value necessary to maintain the current American stand of living at the current valuation of that labor. Disparity of income between top and bottom aside, too much of our populace is only lowest common denominator physical labor.
There was a lot of hub-bub last 2008 election cycle about American’s not being willing to do the tough dirty farm jobs. Frankly, I say bunk. It might be interesting to see what would really happen if the jobs being influxed with illegal labor had to pay enough to entice citizens to do it.
Maybe we’d find out we can live with people picking crops at $25/hr, or maybe we’d find out there’s enough people willing to pick at $8.
