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Re: Lost my job yesterday...
Corrupt people aren't to blame... IDIOTS are to blame. Amateurs. Lightweights. People that couldn't get a job as dog catcher anywhere else run our banks.
But greed is an entity. Not one person. And it's born in capitalism.
The Democrats & Republicans BOTH have their nasty fingerprints all over this thing. BOTH of them, all over it. But fortunately or unfortunately (depending on how you look at it), the Republicans will take the heat. Why? Because the Republicans have been torch carries for 'free market' practically - forever. This flaming bag of dog shit will be laid at their door step. Bottom line. They'll take the fall, and it's their own damn fault they'll take the fall. They backed the wrong horse.
That happens.
And it's also going to be a main reason McCain doesn't win next month. That, and the fact he's probably ran the most godawful, direction-less campaign since Al Gore in 2000.
I feel bad for Tejas, as I do others. This is going to happen more and more sadly, and it's gonna get alot worse before it gets better.
But people sitting back saying this happened because we DON'T have a free market are people that stun me beyond belief. Granted free market isn't the ONLY reason, but to feel our market isn't free in this country (when the world will tell you otherwise) is someone who's in denial. This financial catastrophe has only PROVEN that there needs to be MORE regulations and MORE regulations on top of those. Is that Socialism? Sounds like it, but that's fine by me. If you think the system right now is repairable or could work with 'honest' people... i've got ocean front property in Arizona to sell you.
Even if we got the most honest of honest people in there, I wouldn't trust those guys, probably for the rest of my lifetime. Watch history folks, this will be an issue that will impact a generation's perception on the country, no different than the Great Depression.
And like always - perception is reality. Even if truth is gray.
Re: Lost my job yesterday...
As I've said before; calling it a free market, believing it's a free market..does not make it a free market.
The market has been heavily regulated since the pre-war period. Fact.
You don't loan out money to flunkers in a free market because you know that equals you never seeing that money again. A government backing however...there's just no incentive to hold back is it? Either way it goes someone always has your back. This creates dependence, dishonesty, recklesness and a whole bunch of other negative traits and effects.
A state operation will always mispend your money. The founding fathers understood that, which is why they opted for a small a government as possible. If you can't prevent bad spending at least try and limit it.
This shit we have today, the bills passed and those planned to will give 'your' government unlimited powers to spend taxpayer money. You know what that is? That is USSR, it's communism. Which shouldn't come as a big surprise considering what Marxist shit they teach in schools today. Calling it something else of course, but that doesn't change what it is.
Regulations are power, power over others. That's why they're there in the first place, to protect the upper echelon and the status quo. The game is so old I'm amazed people keep on forgetting it.
Your nation, the whole world almost, has become fearfull of freedom. We've come to believe we're not fit to run our own show. That if the government goes away we will descend into anarchy and chaos. That may be true in the current situation, but it wasn't always that way and we should all be focused on getting it back. Not this moneychanging-socialts vision of peace and prosperity that the upper classes so heartily believe in.
What do they know of the world, these school boys?
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Re: Lost my job yesterday...
I have some good news to report. I have an interview tomorrow with an oil and gas company for a position that is different from what I've been doing, but definitely good experience regardless. Also, another company keeps sending these Internet-based assessment test things. The first one tested my personality (BS True/False stuff like, "I would not hesitate to tell a supervisor if a co-worker was doing drugs on the job" and other tests of morality) as well as a ridiculous math test that was 30 questions over 7 minutes (I was only able to answer half of them lol). But then they sent me a new test today for Excel and Word. This job that I'm applying for with them is similar to the one I previously had, although a bit easier because it's for a company that does not deal with oil and gas. They only do wind farms so I would only be researching the surface owners rather than the mineral and surface owners like I was with my previous job. So hopefully I have two potential jobs. I'm hoping the interview tomorrow goes well and hopefully I hear back from the other company as well.
