reply to post by saltdog
Are There No Prisons? Are There No Workhouses? lol ok. In some aspects, I believe you are confusing "hand outs" with "opportuninties" that your
own country has founded it's own existance on( land of opportunity, melting pot and so on......).
You cannot support an industrialized nation with no middle-class( period). Your middle class has been gutted because the corporations that helped to
build the country have been able to manipulate your government into gutting that middle-class( outsourcing jobs and factories overseas so you no
longer produce anything domestically). LOL and "that's capitalism baby" lol. I love that line.
You are stuck relying on the missguided notion that the rich will create jobs( tax breaks for the top 1% and said "corporations") while they are
only interested in protecting what they have, ( they are not stupid, they are not gonna invest in a country that no longer produces anything,("Hello-
Supply and Demand") The US has turned solely into a consumer based society that produces nothing tangible( for themselves or any other country)
anymore. IE: you have no longer have any combination of home based industries that can sustain your population or way of life indipendantly now.
The last 5 years have shown that reliance on the banking industry and stock markets( as an economy) is a no win situation because they gamble with
pretend money and pay themselves with the taxpayers earnings( take your actual money out of your pocket and put it in their own lol).
So what's your real fix?