DiamondDave
Army Vet
I was thinking about the other thread a bit. And taking a job is good and all, but if we want to create more jobs, if we want the economy to grow, we just cant be content to take a job if it's offered. We have to go out there and create them. We need people who arent content to sit around all day starting their own businesses and creating a need to hire other people.
Our economy will not recover while people are acting like they are entitled to have someone else give them something. You have to go out and create opportunities.
*Sigh* Avatar, just what the hell are you talking about?
First of all, starting a business takes capital. People who are out of work don't have capital. They have DEBT. While it is possible to start a business while in debt, they almost always fail. You are providing a good or service, and unless it's a brand spankin new technology that nobody's ever heard of, there's already somebody else doing it. Since you have debt, and the other stronger firms have capital, you are priced out of the market.
This is doubly true in a down economy. The demand is not there, so established firms are twice as willing to operate at tiny margins just to stay in business. Someone starting with nothing does not have that luxury.
As I've discussed in other threads, the problem is that the opportunities are gone. *Poof* is that clear? We don't make anything here anymore. It's not the stupid libbies pushing the "recession" button just to piss you off. The system threw the middle class overboard 30 years ago. There are solutions, real, solvent, coherent solutions that will bring jobs back to this country, but they dare not be mentioned in the lawmaking process, lest we be accused of being communists, socialists, haters of freedom, or whatever buzzword you guys are using this week.
You're assertion that people are "Acting like they are entitled to have someone else give them something" because they can't find work is obnoxious. I don't know what the source of your income is, but I hope for your sake it remains solvent and doesn't get outsourced, lest you will have to appeal to the very lawmakers for help that you now crucify due to your lack of understanding.
Opportunities are only gone because people arent looking for them. They expect them to just be there instead of working for them.
I will never be appealing to lawmakers for a job. It's not their responsibility to provide for me or my family. It's mine.
Until you learn this, you will always be enslaved.
Well stated.... but would add that they are enslaved and thus choose to enslave those that they wish to force to provide for them