This just in: econmics isn't politics

You know it is bad when way more people show up than needed for 100,000 jobs at McDonald's.

 

Hi Peeps, well, I'm kinda glad some are having an interest in this. Most people care about their own political party but forget about mainstreet when their leaders are elected.

The Truth is, 95 percent of all leaders in America have sold out to wall street. I used to be a Liberal Democrat and dismiss what ever Republicans would say, but under the WTO which allows Outsourcing of American Jobs to slave labor countries like Mexico, China, India, etc, that opened my eyes (some 15 years later). It's just like with the No Bid War Contracts and with an illegal war in Iraq.

Those Political actions have economic re-actions, such as higher inflation (grocery store prices etc), higher taxes (generally poor and middle class pay much higher ratio than the Rich aka people making 250K+ a year).

To me, it's Republicrats, 1 party with 2 Factions, sorta like most Republicans are Klingons and most Democrats are Romulans, they act the same but have different attire. -I mean no offense to anyone, but you have to ask yourself, why does every year, things continue to get worse and your freedoms degrade by enforced government security?

This is why I strongly support 3rd Parties, like Ralph Nader, and a few others like Republican Ron Paul, Democrat Dennis Kucinich and Democrat Mike Gravel. These 3 guys want to end pre-emptive war (edit: which is illegal under the Geneva Conventions aka International Law), end Income Tax (end the federal reserve who uses IRS to collect income tax), stop incentives for job out sourcing as well as for big polluters like BIG OIL.

 

And Mexico wouldn't be a Slave Labour country if it weren't for the things you describe, mate. The political system, as a whole, is to blame for the economic inequality and the perpetuation of it. Americans all lost their job because big business bought out both your and our politicians, to destroy the Mexican economy and innovation so they could bring their Slave camps here and bring down our standards of life, with a sort of labour monopoly - you can't get a job anywhere else because everybody else is out of business or trying to compete with their profit-maximising, soul crushing employment - and it's cheaper for them to bring your job here with even less benefits.

It's about time we rethink our role in the planet, and the role of PUBLIC SERVANTS, and the economic model (the model in which we use our limited resources) AWAY from politics as a whole. Politics is what has failed us.

But who can think economy beyond it? It's sad when you can't. But the survival of our species, and civilisation in general, depends on the end of politics and the reevaluation of economics and social issues.

 

State level economies are...interesting.

I myself live in California where, until recently, if you were to rank just California's economy on a world scale we would be the equivalent of France (at the time the 7th largest world economy). Some statistics a tad more relevant: http://econpost.com/californiaeconomy/california-economy-ranking-among-world-economies

Right now there are massive floods going on in the South where I keep seeing people reference it as a cause for a spike in food prices in the near future. Given I'm only a few hours drive from virtually any food you can think of I'm curious as to how much prices will actually rise for me in state. Locally my area is mainly about production of grapes for wine usage. Nearby in the Sacramento delta there are large numbers of rice paddies. A few hours South to Watsonville and you've got leafy greens, fruit orchards and so on. Wheat? We've got that. Corn? You bet. Avocado? We invented the hass.

With the sheer amount of food produced here I really can't decide if food prices will spike as badly as they might back East or spike but not nearly as badly.