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Originally posted by Jessicacd36
If people are comfortable than they will do nothing. That is the whole reason we are in this quagmire that we are in right now. Let me explain what I believe.
I believe that years ago that the banks and corporate America knew that a crisis was coming to America. What we are experiencing now is not the crisis but the solution that they formed. Sounds crazy but bear with me here.
The World Bank knew years ago that the Largest sector of the US workforce was coming to retirement age (baby boomers). The youth of America was comfortable from entitlement. The World Bank doesn't make money if corporations don't make money and that continues down to the lowest sectors of society.
Corporations started leaving the US because there are larger, cheaper work forces around the world and they knew they would be lacking a quality workforce if they stayed in the US. Lets face it if you or I owned a corporation and this knowledge was brought to light then a decision would have to be made. A lot of them decided to move.
Next problem was laziness due to entitlement. I went to several business seminars between 2004 and 2008 and the biggest theme at them was that employees who are comfortable would be less productive. To get more production make your employees uncomfortable. We can all understand that right? If I'm sitting on the couch, temperature is good, food in my stomach, remote in hand than I don't have much reason to move do i?
This is where the banks come in. They made these bad loans on purpose. They knew they wouldn't loose anything on them because the ones they statistically figured would fail they backed them with insurance. this solved two problems. First it took away entitlements and second it put most of the youth in debt.
Now, here we are. Work two jobs to pay your debt. You wont get the entitlement that you would have received because the banks are forcing the retirements out of baby boomers by inflation. Through reverse mortgages they will probably take the house when they die. Corporations stay happy, banks stay happy and you and I stay uncomfortable.
WOW
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Originally posted by Jessicacd36
That's why they hired nearly a million people gather intelligence for them.
Originally posted by Jessicacd36
reply to post by In nothing we trust
The Washington Post, I believe it was, spent an enormous amount of time and resources to gathering information exposing this huge intelligence network that they built under the guise of Terrorism. They did a documentary on PBS's Frontline. There are articles in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently about the Government putting protesters on the terror list from in and around the Pittsburgh Area. These protesters where Quakers protesting the war and people protesting the Marcellus shale gas drilling. The gas protesters are angry because the water wells are being poisoned and safety measures were being overlooked. They also put gays and lesbians from a parade on the terror list. I don't know how to post links here but this is all online if you goggle it. You can get to the Pittsburgh Tribune-review information by going to their website and typing "protesters put on terror list" in their search bar. There are several articles about it. Governor Randell publicly admitted it as fact. These intelligence agencies are employed everywhere.
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Originally posted by Jessicacd36
reply to post by In nothing we trust
No, I'm saying they built a network large enough to gather information on everyone in society