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To: Metacomet who wrote (79023)	9/5/2011 1:27:43 PM
From: THE ANT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217927

There is the whole field of welfare economics that studies how wealth can be redistributed and safety nets maintained while maximizing economic incentives.The problem is,just like no one read Alexander the Great before they F*d up the Iraq situation, no one is reading the books on Economics.Our government workers are not hired for capability nor out of the box thinking.The US has no choice we either develop a top notch civil service and top notch productive sector(not banks or finance which are only the oil of capitalism)or all will sink to the bottom of the world bucket.An equal share of nothing is nothing.The financial system ate all their prey (the average guy on the street) and like the fishing industry that fished out their fish stocks will die off as a percentage of GDP.The ruling elite, that even democracies have, has contributed to the current situation as they too were greedy and did not help the little guy.Again I say off with their heads.The parasites of society also fed well of their host which lays in the street dying.Well they should be scared.Our President stands looking at the dust in his hand....he hasnt got a clue,what does that tell you?

To: Metacomet who wrote (79023)	9/5/2011 1:51:54 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217927

MC I worked with the Germans and I saw the system was not sustainable. For a German, within it, it looked good. I assembled Germany as outsider looking in. Because the country needed consumers, they needed to receive higher salaries. I ressent people saying I was jealous. (I told this story many times) But I was studying them. Younger people earned little. Senior people earned much better salaries. Thus forced people to stay at one company his whole life else he'd start anew in other company. No job hopping. Then I asked educated Germans: Why does the country have so may young people unemployed? He said: we had a boom. One could get good salaries transporting furniture. He would not need to trin hard or sutdy hard to get a good salary. Once all construction ended and everyone had house furnished, the profile of the economy changed the salaries vanished and the guy was out of a job. They were also very specilized technical people, I noticed. We Brazilians had to do all kinds of stuff and knew much more technical tasks than a German. Thus I was much more valuable. Having worked with so poorly trained Brazilian people, you needed to troubleshoot all kinds of stupid mistakes. The Germans trurn the circuit breaker on. If not hapened they'd write a report leave back to the office. As new technologies started being introduced, I was more able to learn and adapt than the Germans. Many were dropped by the roadside. They did not have a prepared mind. The Germans did not take the guys who'd fall by the road side. They tried but the guys discovered that the retraining programs were very comfortable. So they bombed the exams -on purpose- just not to go back to work!!! Also people who does not job hop do not know how to change jobs, cities etc. They gave up and sent the jobs to China, Eastern Europe and other places.