How To Be Loved And Approved By The Rest Of The World

 

We were at one point the most successful and beloved country on the planet.

Not everyone liked us but when we were treating our citizens appropriately that was making millions of people very impressed and wanting to live here.

We have destroyed that now since the only thing we are ding is helping those that are very wealthy become obscenely wealthy by letting the abuse their employees and by allowing them to send jobs overseas.

I have no problem with people working overseas but they should be used to cover problems where we do not have enough people here to cover the issues.

When we have millions looking for work there is absolutely no excuse for sending jobs overseas. Once we have all our people employed then we absolutely can send jobs overseas to cover what we do not have enough employees for.

Every single company in this country and in other countries should have their leadership placed in jail for abusing the people of their country.

If you are making 10s of millions of dollars or more while many of your employees are barely able to survive on their salaries then you should be fined enough to place you in the same financial situation as your employees and the fines should be distributed evenly among your poorly paid employees.

All you need to do is make sure you are paying your employees enough to live reasonably well. As the CEO and developer of your company you absolutely deserve to live very well but you should be forbidden to live well if you refuse to pay your employees enough to at least be reasonably comfortable.

At my last job I was not by any stretch of the imagination the lowest paid employee but I was still barely living paycheck to paycheck and the CEO of that company was making about 1000 times more than I was making.

I wonder how proud of that he was.

The biggest world problem as far as economy goes is that we have apparently taught many countries how to make a few people insanely rich while screwing over their citizens.

If this is allowed to continue for another couple of years I expect to see the majority of people living in tents or shacks outside the castles or mansions of the wealthy as most become peons again as what was happening several centuries ago and it lasted through the gilded age.

Those of you who are wealthy assholes be prepared for the torches and pitchforks to come back out. It will be something other than actual torches and Pitchforks but whatever it turns out to be will make you unhappy.

Start paying people well and treating them properly and that will never happen.

 

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What Is Happening In The World Today

 

The people in the world today are still having serious trouble making ends meet. It is really time for all the governments to retrieve all of the money that was given to the financial industry plus another 20% or so as a fine for causing the issues we are having.

Once the money is retrieved it should be given spread evenly to the public that is still rarely able to survive. We also need to start thinking about regulations. We don’t need a ton of regulations but we should start regulating pricing from corporations that are price gouging their customers.

Companies and corporations are certainly entitled to make profits but it should be against the law to use all the profits to just give their executives insane amounts of money.

Employees should be making far more now then they did a decade ago but many are making even less. Productivity has climbed dramatically but pay scales have gone down so the is pay gouging the employees.

Pay should certainly be based on individual productivity and quality. Not everyone is good at what they do and would not making as much as the best employees but there is not one single employee on the planet that should not be making enough to at least cover living and healthcare expenses.

Ok you politicians around the world stop all your crap and fix your citizens!!!

 

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My View of the World at the End of 2013

 

It really matters not what part of the world you speak about today. Every single country has major problems whether admitted or not and the governments are really not doing anything to help.

In the United States for instance, today there is a massive cut back in the Food Stamp program which will impact as many as 40 million people. The problem is that no one is willing to address this correctly. As in any program where there is a lot of money involved you will find some amount of fraud but rather than really cracking down on that a bunch of politicians got together and just pulled a dollar figure out of their collective ass without having any idea how much actual fraud is taking place.

In other countries around the world all of the “fixes” are beating the hell out of people that are already struggling just to survive.

I suggest that we go to the financial institutions that have been making massive profits because the governments in a lot of cases have been essentially funding them and take back some of that profit and lets feed, clothe and house people. Or rather than taking it back stop this BS about how paying people more will cripple the economy. People have had their wages cut immensely over the last decade and that has not helped prevent the problem or brought back the economy one damned bit.

In the 80s and 90s people were treated and paid far better than they are now and we had a magnificent economy. How about if we go back there?

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Why Can’t We All Get Along!

I am so tired of seeing Facebook posts of those that feel obligated to slam Islam or Muslims in general or immigrants to the US whether legal or illegal.

There have been some horrible things done by People of other cultures and I will fully admit that but these people that seem to believe it is perpetrated by the majority of those folks are so very wrong.

I personally am not alarmed by whatever your religious affiliation is. You are welcome in my house. You may be Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Shinto, Taoist, Christian, or whatever faith I have missed. I may not be familiar fully with your beliefs but I know that there is no religion out there that is truly looking for the eradication of the rest of the world that is not the same religion.

Many people in the US complain and go after Muslims while Christians historically have been some of the most violent people in history. We have the the unfortunate obligation of being responsible for the Crusades and the Inquisition.

Christianity as a whole has probably been responsible for more death and violence over the course of history than anyone else.

Anyone in this world, regardless of their religion, is welcome in my house. Although in todays economy I will be rather hard pressed to provide anything more than basic necessities.

Never fear me. I am the most tolerant person that anyone will ever meet.

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Are the European Elections Telling the Rest of the World Something?

I believe that the elections are absolutely sending a message. I believe they are. The election results show that enough people are fed up with the way things are going and are willing to change the type of leadership they have in some cases rather dramatically.

People want some very dramatic change that will help the common folk as quickly as help was given to the financial sector.

I am not at all advocating a Socialist government. I am however, strongly advocating for a change in the type of Capitalism we practice.

What we need is a retreat back to Stakeholder Capitalism where company decisions took into account everyone involved. Vendors, neighbors, customers, employees and shareholders were all considered in the decision making process and in so doing very powerful and strong decisions were made that would keep a company growing and increasing in abilities and stature for years and years to come. This is the advantage of stakeholder capitalism.

Shareholder capitalism on the other makes decisions based almost solely on the wants of the the shareholders. The shareholders, who are risking their money and absolutely deserve to have good decisions made, are nowadays only interested in how much a return can be made in the shortest time. The problem with that is that it really allows no long term planning to occur since the vast majority of the profits go right to the stockholders. This is also the reason for astronomical CEO pay that is seen because the stockholders vote in the board of directors and the goal of the board of directors is of course to stay in that position so their duty in today’s world lies almost completely to the stockholder.

I am not sure that many people have even heard of these two types of capitalism but it would truly make for a far more equitable world while still allowing the wealthy to increase their wealth to a great extent.

It would also allow the less wealthy to move into an area of somewhat more wealth that may give those who have been working hard all their lives to actually retire. As things are going now I will likely die on the job at some point, hopefully far in the future, but unless things change I will never be able to retire. I will work until the day I die.

I am also not advocating that we give high salaries to those that are not doing a job that is good enough to warrant it but we have people that have been doing their jobs for years and have become better and better at it but are making less in real terms than they were 15 or 20 years ago and I find that to be incredibly sad.

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