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The American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades. That's the conclusion of a new study out from the Brookings Institution, which looks at the rates of new business creation and destruction since 1978.
Not only that, but during the most recent three years of the study -- 2009, 2010 and 2011 -- businesses were collapsing faster than they were being formed, a first. Overall, new businesses creation (measured as the share of all businesses less than one year old) declined by about half from 1978 to 2011.
originally posted by: MyHappyDogShiner
I hear a lot of people everywhere blabbering that the economic conditions can be blamed on un-motivated people receiving public assistance or welfare, or whatever....
Motivated people who would otherwise be on some sort of assistance go to school and get into debt usually, and in turn end up working low-wage jobs outside of their fields of study too frequently to pay off their obligations to the banks.
Technological advancements which basically eliminate the jobs they were learning to do in college before they graduate eliminate or render them unqualified when they do, along with the fact that not everyone can be a rock star (as in technology reduces the demand for their job) further exacerbates the problem.
What we have here is an outdated system of nearly anything you can think of, especially education, that can't keep up with advancements in technology in anything but "Real Lag time".
Only the big boys have the money to stay current on technology and offer their goods and services at the lowest cost.
Geewillickers, they can even 3D print house now!!!.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. - Ayn Rand
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion, when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing, when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors, when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you, when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand
originally posted by: MyHappyDogShiner
Gotta watch out for that "Implied consent" BS , or sometimes I think it's referred to as "Acquiescense" (sp), any mail from the criminal banksters needs to be scrutinized ASAP.Notice was served, but you didn't read it soon enough.
Or # like this happens.
Been there.
a reply to: DARKJEDIG
originally posted by: Granite
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Even The Irvine Ranch Company is rumored to soon be filing for bankruptcy...the number one housing developer in Orange County CA.
originally posted by: MyHappyDogShiner
I am familiar with the UCC codes.
Failing to read a contract within a given time frame assumes your acceptance of it in some cases, gotta read it, they already were doing business with the bank responsible, which implies acceptance in the terms and conditions of most banks or anything else these days.
It's better to understand what it is being offered and refuse it than to risk allowing it to become force of law because of not reading it and not realizing you were being served notice.
Unconscionable contracts are enforceable , the names of things have been changed to protect the guilty who take advantage of the ignorant.
That "Freeman" stuff is real, most can't afford the time or the money to learn it actually exists so they pass it off as a "conspiracy theory" with the help of religious institutions, banks and the media liars by way of the corporations and governements which have endless amounts of time and money to hire bright young lawyers to write legislation to have passed as laws and rape the entire world and everyone and everything in it and on it for a buck.
I am a poor man with a conscience, and that is why I am poor.
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Small businesses are having a harder time getting a foothold, probably because of the way the banks are operating holding usable capital close to their chests instead of promoting economic growth.
originally posted by: buster2010
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
Small businesses are having a harder time getting a foothold, probably because of the way the banks are operating holding usable capital close to their chests instead of promoting economic growth.
You want to know why banks are doing this? Because the federal reserve is paying them billions to not loan money to small businesses.