Who was it that created the federal reserve bank?
Those are responsible people
Find out what ideology fueled it and you have the answer
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> On Dec 31, 2022, at 6:40 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> Steve,
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> Why is our education system what it is today?
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> Who moved all the businesses off shore?
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> Why are illegal aliens able to take jobs away from American Citizens?
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> Who is responsible for our immigration?
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> Who is responsible for H1B visas?
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> How many trust fund babies are there in America?
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> Does every person need to graduate college?
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> I have been reading and hearing the trades are going unfilled, why is that?
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> Why does it cost upwards of $10k a semester to go to a AZ state university?
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>> On 2022-12-31 15:48, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> techlists@phpcoderusa.com said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:54:21 -0700
>>> Here are my thoughts. Nothing is free.. had an econ prof that used to
>>> say there are no free lunches... it might be free to you but someone
>>> paid for it.
>> True. But schooling for the citizenry is an investment. Educated people
>> pay more taxes and use less welfare, WIC and food stamps. An educated
>> citizenry means we can quickly ramp up production if a war or boycott
>> cuts our supply of foreign goods. A lot of our social and political
>> strife is due to the fact that a large swath of our citizenry is
>> constantly running uphill financially, and they're getting tired.
>>> I'm a high school dropout that dropped back in.
>>> Life is not easy. Don't have money for school? Go to work for a
>>> college or university that gives free tuition for their employees or
>>> maybe you can be like me and join the military and get the GI Bill.
>> We've been cheaping out K-12 for the last 3 or 4 decades. A huge
>> portion of our young people are completely unprepared for either
>> college or a modern job. We now have uneducated parents raising
>> uneducated kids. What could *possibly* go wrong?
>>> I'm glad our forefathers were willing to endure and did not quietly
>>> quit. There are stories they were out in the freezing cold fighting
>>> for our freedom while only having rags on their feet because some or
>>> maybe many did no have shoes. Some lost their lives and some lost
>>> their fortunes.
>> And when they did that, I doubt they were fighting for future
>> generations to work in our current sweatshops that aren't a lot better
>> than the sweatshops of 1910.
>> [snip]
>>> I think as a society we have gotten soft.
>> You know who's gotten soft? The trust fund babies. The Fortune 500 CEOs
>> with their multimillion/year compensation. Those living on investments.
>> Believe me, the guys who nailed the roof onto my house in the burning
>> Florida sun are not soft. Nor are the homeless people who work 40 and
>> still can't find housing, or those who get laid off through no fault of
>> their own and are instantly homeless because the middle class is
>> constantly on the ragged edge of financial ruin.
>>> For me, in my youth, I was grateful for the minimum wage jobs I was
>>> able to work at.
>> Back then, a minimum wage job kept a roof over your head, and in many
>> cases your company gave you health insurance. And back then it was easy
>> to get a job exceeding the minimum wage. In a big city, you could find
>> factory row, knock on every door, and come home with a job that night.
>> A job whose only educational requirement was to be able to speak, read
>> and write, if that.
>>> My opinion is a job at McDonalds is not a career job and if you think
>>> it is your selling yourself short. These are starter jobs and if one
>>> does not like minimum wage then go build some skills.
>> How? Today's construction trade pay is pulled down by the steady inflow
>> of immigrants, legal and illegal. Today's sales jobs are minimum wage,
>> so unless you're in the top 10 percent of sales people, that's where
>> you stay. You could be a server in a high class restaurant if you can
>> get the job, but you better stay young and good looking, especially if
>> you're female.
>>> If things become too east people will not rise to their potential.
>> Tell that to the trust fund babies.
>>> Again as a country we have become soft.
>> But a lot harder than in the 60's and early 70's, when a guy with an IQ
>> of 85 could get a factory job and feed his family. In the 60's, one of
>> my buddies lived in a rich suburb, and his father paid for him and his
>> brother to go to college. His father was a garbage collector.
>> I'll say it again: Our nation needs to invest in its citizens'
>> education if we don't want to become a third world country.
>> SteveT
>> Steve Litt
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>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm
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