Warren and Me
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Exactly.
I grew up working for my parents garbage company. Even as the owner's son I had to do some of the dirtiest, nastiest work imaginable. Combine that with it being located CA central valley ( white trash capital of the west) made me want out as fast as possible.
I saw an article in Nat Geo about semiconductors when I was in middle school. I knew right then that was the major opportunity for the next 30+ years. I set my sites too low and went the tech route instead of EE or software. I still learned an amazing amount and translated it into a business of my own.
Moral is...if your an operator, your kid better be the tech/mechanic. And their kids better be looking ahead to the next step up the ladder.
The days of being lucky to be born in the US and have a basic standard of living orders of magnitude above the rest of the world with a HS education are long gone and never coming back.
And why is that??????
"a basic standard of living orders of magnitude above the rest of the world with a HS education." Well that's really the catch isn't it? We can if we choose to set it up so a kid with a HS degree can live a nice middle class life. But by the time we get done our middle class will look just like the middle class all over the world.
No real answers. We had a run longer than most (US economy wise).
I just know that answers to really big questions like these are rarely simple.
Trump is giving everyone simple snack sized answers to complicated questions. He appeals to the LCD. He is political reincarnation of P.T. Barnum.
BTW...I don't support any of the clowns running for President. Anyone that wants the job should be automatically disqualified from holding it.
I just know that answers to really big questions like these are rarely simple.
Trump is giving everyone simple snack sized answers to complicated questions. He appeals to the LCD. He is political reincarnation of P.T. Barnum.
BTW...I don't support any of the clowns running for President. Anyone that wants the job should be automatically disqualified from holding it.
I agree with much of what you post, but we need factories and if you travel to southern states, many still don't get high school diplomas, wasted words when you try, any factories there are mostly white or foreign owned and young minorities are for mostly unemployed or underemployed. It be better for them to have opportunities to have jobs than do crime and draw on welfare teats. Even Florida, have so many retire down then and get bored, there are not jobs for the older workers and many of those younger have Masters saying "You like to Super-size that"? And of course factories that require heavy electronics automation not being done here. Even though trucking industry has 100,000 shortage of truck drivers, factories would increase wages enough where younger workers would enter, more monies for roads and bridges to be built as well. The average age for most truckers is over 56 years old now in better companies, which means many guys in their 70s going up and down the roads, and most are far better than youngsters driving.
We lost Vietnam cause we listened too much of what was going on in the streets, it is said Hanoi was days away from throwing in the towel if we kept up the bombing there, but Johnson was weak President, America certainly didn't learn during the first Gulf war as we again stopped when we should have just kept going-they were not ready for us, that would have save many American lives the second and ongoing-after they built up forces they have many more weapons in country. If you going to do an half assed job of war, you going to have to pay for it long past the war ends. If you going to start a war, you better retaliate with everything you have and fast, keep hitting them with missiles from the greatest Air force, Marine and Navy pilots in the world, drones flown from San Diego to assist. Really need to increase Marine numbers. And need to double monies set aside for Veterans, they give up much to serve freely to defend us and America forgets them when they need help after.
Actually, and I'm not certain about this, but I think the record shows that the economy has done better under democrats than republicans. But what measure do you use? There are even books about this. But I wonder if it doesn't have to do with the particular time period you choose, a fortuitous war maybe. But that can't be it, because we are always at war. In any case, there is one thing I'm very certain of, the U.S. economy will take off like a moon rocket if Bernie is elected. If you put money in middle class pockets, they will spend it!
Federal spending is typically higher under democrats (entitlements). Inflation/gold/silver typically (over time) follows spending/debt levels. Stock market follows inflation...earnings keep up with inflation. I would say stock market better under democrats. Yes, there are exceptions in our history over short periods of time.
No, no, and no! In prior time, when there were not so many diversions for our attention, people actually read for their amusement. Can you even imagine such a thing? Can you even imagine Donald Trump doing such a thing? Many of the Founders were, in fact, readers and students of the Greek and Roman classics. This is further away from Trump than Alpha Centauri. Being stupid isn't that same thing as being radical. Being stupid is mainstream!
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