Thread: Video_ Buy, Buy, American Pie

Well, you win the best post of the day award.

With apologies to Don MacLean, I love it! Thanks, AF!

Maybe I'm just getting to be an old fuddy duddy but I find no humor in it. We as Americans are all in the middle of this crap and here you have a group idiots making themselves feel superior by making fun.

That's all.

Originally Posted by JMS

Maybe I'm just getting to be an old fuddy duddy but I find no humor in it. We as Americans are all in the middle of this crap and here you have a group idiots making themselves feel superior by making fun.

That's all.

It hurts because it's true.

You (the Americans) have only yourself to blame for this crap so don't shoot the messengers who are making a buck off of it. That would be like being mad at George Carlin for making fun of similar issues over the last decades.

Originally Posted by Bruno

It hurts because it's true.

+1 Yeah it is. No jobless recovery in China. They have them all.

that is a hilarious video

Originally Posted by Bruno

It hurts because it's true.

You (the Americans) have only yourself to blame for this crap so don't shoot the messengers who are making a buck off of it. That would be like being mad at George Carlin for making fun of similar issues over the last decades.

That's a pretty big generalization. THe fact is that "americans" are largely against most free trade agreements because most americans know that it's fundamentally unfair. Workers in places like China, Honduras, and Viet Nam deserve the same wages, environmental protections, and workplace safety that we have here in the US and in Europe. The truth is that these trade barriers have been broken down not by american voters, but by wealthy special interest lobbies.

Having said that, I think the video is sorta' funny too.

Gives new meaning to "Sad but True". What really hurts is that we can't turn this around if we wanted to. We face some dark days ahead.

In the 1920s, before the great depression, then president of the USA said,"The business of the United States is business." When I was growing up here in the USA there was something known then as a "social contract."

The worker looked out for the company and the company had some loyalty to the worker. This began to change in the 70s if not before then. By the Time Reagan got in with "trickle down economics, known to Bush 41 as "voodoo economics" the entrepreneurs were beginning to stab the American worker in the back.

Clintons took it a step further offering tax credits to companies that would take their companies "offshore" and than there is NAFTA on other equal emasculating trade agreements from the American worker point of view. They opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants (no longer illegal, now they are "undocumented" workers) to do , as Bush 43 said,"jobs nobody wanted." As a kid entering the economy I did many of those jobs nobody wanted.

Between the companies moving production overseas and the illegal workers the American worker is dead in the water. They killed the goose that laid the golden egg for filthy lucre. What won WWII and made this country great was a country based on manufacturing, not a "consumer society."

We have been sold down the river by our "representatives" from both political parties. Not surprising, how can you expect millionaires, as all of the pols in Washington are, to have any understanding of what the average person is going through ? If you're not in your sixties you'll have no memory of what I'm talking about. End of rant.