12 Things you should know about Paul Ryan - Page 22

"sell visas". Or, we could have all our brilliant politicians stand on the street corners to wash windshields of autos waiting for a green light. And college professors can shine shoes for pedestrians who have to walk because they can't afford fuel for their cars.

Yeah, I'd like to see them here in FL sweating their butts off standing at a busy intersection selling Sunday papers too. American greed is a very destructive thing.

My point was not about greed at all, Blitzen. It was if " selling visas" is all that's left to muster up revenue, then there is no one to employ professors and no need for freaking politicians. This country is on a slick down hill slide but at least other countries have benefited :-/

There is a professor cleaning windshields and pumping disel fuel into semis at the company maintenance shop right now. Many are getting hired and have actually now taken over the jobs that our young adults used to do leaveing them trying to take teen type job market...... it is a viscious cycle.

"It might just be too late to stop the bleed."

What if it is?  All I am saying is let's move on to the next thing.  We were an agriculture based society.  Then we were part of the Industrial Revolution that made us rich.  But our spending policies, living standards, and legal protections don't allow for product price competitiveness.  So we invented things... and they got copied... and manufactured elsewhere.  These are all predictable developments in a free market.  What are the next things?  Service jobs, trade?  Should we vote for Newt and populate the moon?  Why not think about selling energy?  It hasn't hurt the Middle East or Russia?  Talk about billionaires.  Can you imagine leaving manufacturing behind just like we did family farms?  It could happen.

O' looks like he just smelled Ryan's budget.

O' looks like he just smelled Ryan's budget.

I mean American greed is a big reason how we got here, Joanro. I'll betcha if all the wealth in the US (including off shore accounts) was put into one account (that's a metaphor) there would be more than enough money to see that every kid in the US got a good education, had decent clothing and enough food to eat and there would still be plenty left over for the rich to have all their expensive toys.