Comments on: With millions of Americans unemployed: Why doesn’t Congress care? (video)

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Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:08:43 +0000

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By: leftfield

leftfield — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 09:41:28 +0000

Why doesn’t Congress care? Why should they? The companies and interests that Congress works for are doing quite well, thank you very much.

By: realamerican025

realamerican025 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:18:33 +0000

Everything you said had nothing to do with the topic at hand, people like you are funny though, you think you know it all, suggest books you’ve never read..also, I didn’t quote anyone. Those are all my own thoughts…please do not vote in any election…I can see you are part of the problem.

By: You probably should read before you post on economics

You probably should read before you post on economics — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:01:36 +0000

Ok, read economics before you post. Try Human Action or, if you don't have the stamina try the beginners, How a Economy Grows and Why it Crashes. Frankly, you should educate yourself before you post on economics, lest you sound like an idiot. (P.S. quoting Krugmann just hurts credibility more than helps. He is the worst, and most consistently wrong economist which we have record of. In addition, he is part of the Keynesian school of economics which has been repeatedly refuted--over and over again by many different branches within economics.)

By: realamerican025

realamerican025 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 02:22:25 +0000

What do I recommend the gov to do?
Basic logic will tell you how to solve this crisis. Why are people unemployed? Theres no jobs. Why are there no jobs? Because jobs are exported to different countries so companies dont have to pay them decent wages and give them benefits. How do we solve this?
#1 Invest in industry, and I mean all industry, we need to manufacturer our own things and not import it
#2 Drill our own oil, why are we paying ridiculous prices when we have enough oil in our own country to last for hundreds of years?
#3 Tax companies that export jobs more, if they wont bring jobs here, then we shouldn’t support them
#4 Invest in the hemp industry, hemp is stronger then paper and cotton, hemp oil is also cleaner then ethanol and can run a vehicle much better, it can also be re-grown and doesn’t damage the environment
#5 Stop fighting a 10 year war in two different countries that never attacked us, the FBI released a list of people who were involved in 9/11, none of them were from Iraq or Afganistan, so why are we spending billions on wars we aren’t even profiting from? Blatant stupidity.
#6 In fact, we should stop spending so much on military, and more on education, we already know how to kill people, why do we continue to invest in it? We need to invest in productivity that will make this Earth last longer before we destroy it.

If we use our brains we can solve problems, but we refuse to do so. Are you happy with gas prices right now? Wait until summer, when prices SKY rocket…thank your illogical government for it

By: nizero

nizero — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:43:02 +0000

What exactly do you recommend the government do ?

By: realamerican025

realamerican025 — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:17:59 +0000

If people were smart, they would refuse to support a government who does this to their people, but people are not smart, so the government will continue to get away with this until a massive riot or protest occurs.