made in america must make a comeback!

[Professor Swagger]

Difference is, back then people knew the meaning of HONEST WAGE. and they lived within their means.

Today most people make $50,000 a year and live like they make $200,000. When people bought houses like our parents and grandparents, it was to stay in them for 20 years.

WHen people lost their jobs, they had savings, today, people have CREDIT, and thats it. or they used to.

The housing collapse, the bailout, the Big 3, all this is so much more than economic problems. its society as a whole, thinking they are ENTITLED to things they havent worked for.

Everyone was drunk on greed. The banks were lending to people that werent qualified, the people borrowing could only see that new ESCALADE they were going to be driving or that house that was going to make them $200,000.

No one thought "what about the negative side effects"

QFT

[Apollo]

Americans like to watch TV, play on Internet , play video games and drink beer,and shop. We have become a lazy society. Population is the problem not enough jobs for everyone so they have to cut wages to create more jobs so everyone can work. Back in the day like the wild west for example people(Towns) helped each other out and now its all about individuals, the family idea is about to be extincted because they way the world has changed. Im sure there is more to this problem but this is just some...

[BanginJimmy]

Americans like to watch TV, play on Internet , play video games and drink beer,and shop. We have become a lazy society.

very true, and this also touches on what Mr Kidd said. We are quickly becomes an entitlement society. Too many people think they are owed something just because they were too lazy to get it for themselves.

Population is the problem not enough jobs for everyone so they have to cut wages to create more jobs so everyone can work.

Population is a HUGE problem worldwide. There needs to be something done to combat the huge rise in population that we are seeing now. It is getting to the point that the world isnt producing enough food to feed ourselves and this is only going to get worse in the future. Even here in the US we are encroaching into our farmlands to build neighborhoods and subdivisions. The result, every year we have that much less land to grow food on. That means that farmers have to make a choice, reduce the acreage they grow on every year, or run the risk of burning out the soil.

I have seen some graphs that say that the Chinese will basicly brred themselves into a VERY drastic population downturn around 2050 though. Because parents want sons and not daughters, there is actually becoming a shortage of women in the population. Its said that starting in about 2050 that shortage will be so bad that there wont be enough working age adults to sustain their economy, let alone the largest standing army in the world.

Back in the day like the wild west for example people(Towns) helped each other out and now its all about individuals, the family idea is about to be extincted because they way the world has changed. Im sure there is more to this problem but this is just some...

this is a new day though and it started in the early 70's, women were no longer expected to stay home and raise the kids, they now not only getting jobs for extra income, but in real careers that rival or even surpass their husbands. This means that kids are left alone MUCH more often and at a younger age. So instead of geting out of the house to get away from parents, as I did when I was a kid, they stay home and watch TV and/or play Street Fighter 86 Zulu or whatever it is.

Side note: I will still dominate ANYONE is street Fighter 2 Alpha


It is also important to note that the US is quickly growing in average age. Between 1990 and 2000 the average age of Americans grew by about 2.5 years.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/.../cb01cn67.html

If this trend continues, the US may also reach a peak population sometime around 2050, but our decline will come at a MUCH lower rate than the Chinese. Something else I found intersting. The largest, by percentage, family makeup in the US is a married couple with no chuildren. I cant find the article I read that in so you will just have to take my word for it.

[Apollo]

good points that you added to my comments, very true