Quote Originally Posted by know1 View Post
I don't like Obama one bit, but this isn't his fault.

The American economy and more specifically business and even more specifically workers have gotten disproportionately fat and lazy compared to much of the world and this is the adjustment to bring things back to balance.

Look around - with unions and even without unions it takes 4 and 5 people to do the job that one person could feasibly do. We're so terribly inefficient in all that we do it's pathetic.

People almost seem to have this sense of entitlement that they are owed more business, work and income instead of actually dedicating themselves to working for it.
Yes and 50% of that was/is caused by OSHA going overboard on safety practices,I worked on an offshore drilling rig in the 70's and early 80's and we worked our tails off and got things done,today it takes them 4 times as long to do what we used to accomplish because of safety laws.The same applies in construction that I work in today,being safe is great,but some things are totally ridiculous.
I had my own small company for close to 25 years and an extremely hard working carpentry crew of White American Citizens,I would have matched my guys against any crew from Mexico or anywhere else on earth and whipped their rearends plus put out better quality than the garbage these "Cheap" laborers they allow illegally into our country.
If you think giving our jobs to illegals and sending them offshore,then reselling the product back to us is the answer then you are whacked in the head.Lowering wages while the cost of living goes up is only pushing more people into poverty.The great Dems that love to hand out govt checks to the "Needy" are as much at fault for those they lay around for a handout as any,meanwhile they tax to death those of us who will and can work hard.
The great messiah Obama is now digging up the past on CIA interrigations to cover up his own shortcomings,nice publicity stunt,but some of us can see the truth.