Sunday, September 16, 2012

Service sector Jobs are fast becoming what Americas do for LABOR !!


Fewer Americans are doing real work, and more are getting paid to do non-work or pseudo-work.


Actual goods-producers are now around 18 million workers in a total private labor force of 119 million, meaning a 6-to-1 goods-to-services ratio (it was 2.2-to-1 in 1970).  The number of government workers is around 22 million (and make double the average salary of their private sector counterparts). This political class is not only predatory on they producers, but they actually tax them, regulate them, and essentially harass them.

 

 

The ever-growing list of nations facing severe budget, debt, and unemployment problems headlined by Greece, Spain, and the United States has two factors common to all its members.  They are all either confirmed to be or determined to turn into socialist democracies, and they have evolved into overwhelmingly consumption-based societies, while greatly diminishing their goods-producing sector, thus eroding their job-creation ability as well as the nation's wealth and tax base.
Nearly 80% of the economic infrastructure of the United States is in the service sector.  In addition, over 71% of the Gross Domestic Product is made up of consumer spending; thus, the annual GDP growth is highly sensitive to personal wealth and after-tax income which the president is determined to reduce.
Any economy so dependent on a service sector (which notoriously pays lower wages) and consumer spending will, in due course, begin to feed upon itself in an unsustainable manner particularly as government absorbs more capital and revenue to maintain its social promises.  As the goods-producing sector, which generates the real wealth of a nation, continues to decline, the consequences are there for all Americans and Europeans to see: job-creation, per capita income, and personal wealth begin a long-term downward spiral along with the inevitable and attendant reality of many governments facing insolvency.
In the United States this trend has been accelerating for many years and has greatly affected the composition of the labor force, incomes, and growth in the economy.  While still a large producer of goods, due to its size of the population and economy, the nation has experienced a precipitous drop in its onetime world dominance.  The proof is in the ongoing dilemma of job-creation and unemployment.
As recently as 1995 the goods-producing sector of the economy accounted for nearly 20% of the jobs in the United States (36% in 1965).  In 2000 that percentage had fallen to 19%; as of June 2011 it was at 12.9%.  
In June of 2011, 18 million people were employed in the goods-producing sector; when Obama assumed office in January 2009 19.6 million were employed in this arena.  There has been a loss of 1.6 million high-paying jobs in the past 30 months alone.
Therefore by necessity there has been a noticeable shift in employment patterns into much lower-paying jobs in the private sector.  While the overall economy has lost 2.7 million jobs since January of 2009, employment in the service sector has increased by 675 thousand.  However the growth has been in the hotel and food service sector (380 thousand) and health care and social assistance (750 thousand).  Since 2000, employment in the hotel and food service sector has increased by 1.3 million, and in health care and social assistance, 6.5 million, while 7.6 million value-added jobs in the goods-producing sector have been lost.
Many economists proffer the argument that the move to an overwhelmingly service-based economy is the natural course of events in a highly industrialized and technologically advanced society.  However, this fails to take into account the factors of world economic development and the rapid advancement in technology that allow many services, which have no intrinsic uniqueness, to be performed by fewer employees and in many cases, in other countries with lower labor costs.  Further, as a nation's work force expands due to natural population growth, the competition for these lower-paying jobs in the service sector becomes more intense, further eroding the earnings potential of the individual and in many cases fomenting class envy and violence.
The United States, if it is to continue as a world economic and military force, must begin immediately to restructure its economy and education system.  The nation cannot persist in creating low-paying non-skilled jobs if it wishes to overcome its current financial problems and avoid a societal upheaval.
On its present course, the country cannot begin to generate the tax revenue necessary to reduce its debt and meet its societal obligations, even if the entitlement programs are significantly modified.  Unless the growth rate of the Gross Domestic Product and personal income remains at a consistently high level for a long period of time, there will never be enough monies available for both the government and the private sector.  The economy as presently ordered cannot maintain significant growth with the government at all levels, but particularly Washington D.C., pursuing a centrally planned economic model.
There is only one viable solution: a program to re-industrialize the nation and become energy-independent, developing into a net energy exporter.  America should have as its goal to increase the manufacturing and energy sector to 40% of the economy instead of the current 20%.  
The first step in reconstituting the manufacturing sector must be the elimination of tens of thousands pages of redundant and costly regulations at the federal, state, and local level.  The facility construction approval process must be streamlined and environmental blocking tactics greatly diminished.  Taxes on business (particularly manufacturing and energy) have to be dramatically reduced or eliminated.  Research and development should be given the highest priority using tax credits as necessary.  Tort reform, while protecting those truly injured and incorporating a modified form of "loser pays," has to be among the top items on a growth agenda.
Lastly, all areas of the United States, except those most sensitive, must be opened to oil and gas exploration, as well as other judicious raw material exploitation.  Technology has advanced to the point where environmental safeguards are a tenfold improvement over those 25 years ago; there is no need, except for radical ideology, to maintain a "boot on the neck" approach to environmental concerns.
The United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserves -- a natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 billion sent to other countries to buy their oil but could be the catalyst to create untold millions of jobs not only in the oil fields, but in hundreds of peripheral industries.  The untapped reserves are estimated to be up to 2.1 trillion barrels, which is equivalent to a 300-year supply, and would allow the U.S. to become the single largest exporter of oil and oil-related products in the world, thus eliminating the trade deficit and making a massive dent in the national debt.
A summary of the potential untapped oil reserves valued at $100 per barrel is as follows:

       Billions of Barrels         $  Value in Trillions
Bakken Fields  (Dakotas)                   200                      20.0
Outer Continental Shelf                     90                        9.0
ANWR   (Alaska)                     10                        1.0
Tar Sands                     75                        7.5
Oil Shale                1,750                    150.0
                               
               TOTAL        2,125  Billion Barrels              $ 187.5 Trillion
Current Total National Debt
                  14.5 Trillion
Given the opportunity, the American worker is still the most productive in the world.  He or she can compete with any other country and turn out a superior product, but only if the federal and state governments live within their bounds both financially and constitutionally and are not dominated by socialist ideologues and their crony capitalist and union leadership allies.
Regardless of how much the current governing class claims to be reducing spending and planning for the future, those promises are hollow and cannot be kept unless and until the American economy pivots and becomes a producing and exporting nation as it was on its path to being the most powerful economic and military power the world has ever known. 
The United States must return to being the foremost haven for investment capital and business activity in the world.  Unless policies are put in place that will create the next tidal wave of long-term, high economic growth, the bleak future so many fear will become a reality and none of the lies, obfuscations, and scapegoating by the cast of characters presently on stage in the ongoing theater of the absurd in Washington D.C. will change that outcome.

Democratic Ponzi scheme, The takers are overpowering the makers,

The Marxist Left: Turning America Upside Down

The Marxist Left: Turning America Upside Down

Institutions centralizing control over the economy were established in the “progressive era” that could later be employed by radicals to move the country in the direction of socialist revolution.  The two most important are torn from the pages of the Communist Manifesto: a progressive income tax and a central bank dispensing fiat currency. The former would penalize those seeking to ascend into the upper class; the latter would devalue the currency nearly a hundred times over since it was founded.

This arrangement would help finance a system of incessantly expanding government and affiliated bureaucracy, which would eventually turn the American economy upside down.

If we take a quick and dirty look at the employment picture, fewer Americans are doing real work, and more are getting paid to do non-work or pseudo-work.  This is making the Democrat Party very popular indeed.

Actual goods-producers are now around 18 million workers in a total private labor force of 119 million, meaning a 6-to-1 goods-to-services ratio (it was 2.2-to-1 in 1970).  The number of government workers is around 22 million (and make double the average salary of their private sector counterparts). This political class is not only predatory on they producers, but they actually tax them, regulate them, and essentially harass them.

Education and health services, important parts of the economy that help the other industries become more productive, but whose workers are ultimately non-producers, stands at 3.2 million. Despite being paid generously, when one considers the benefits, many teachers fail to even inculcate the basics of math, science and reading with our children.  The public schools’ track record of failure is then used to inspire taxpayers to give even more to education every year.  And under Obamacare, health services will become a coercive arm of the government.

Environmentalism has developed into a rationale to regulate all aspects of the productive economy, and most heavily, the energy production sector.  Preventing the building of nuclear power plants, oil refineries, offshore drilling platforms, pipelines, coal burning plants, and the like, all the while shrieking about “green energy” is leading to exorbitant energy prices. This, from the party that postures as a champion for “the little guy.”

Consequentially, our economy is becoming less of one where we actually make stuff and do stuff, but where we simply dream up stuff.  This is unsurprisingly causing numerous a host of negative consequences, which our left-controlled media attempt to paper over in the meantime.

So what about the left’s argument that it’s “the rich” that is actually causing all the problems with its wanton “greed”? Let’s deconstruct this argument a bit.

It has been well-documented that the richest 10% of people pay 70% of the taxes.  How much do “the rich” therefore really control the government?  Or more accurately, is it safer to say that the government controls the rich, extorts them, and arm-twists them?

What about the bailouts and stimulus? The rich did not give themselves the bailouts, politicians did.  And tellingly, the same party that voted for the bailouts and stimulus, the Democrat Party, now vehemently rails against Wall Street and the “one percent.” (Similar to the way the Democrats authorized Bush to go to war, twice, and then pretended to have no part in leading us into those “overseas contingency actions.”) This behavior is consistent with the Leninist maxim: sell the capitalists the rope they will be hung with.

And the stimulus package? The stimulus turned out to be a slush fund for pet Democrat causes that had almost no impact on the economy at large.

When the bottom 50% pay zero in federal income taxes, how much do the corporations really control the government?  Isn’t it safer to say that under our “democracy,” the government is actually controlling the corporations, seeing as we have the second-highest corporate tax rate in the world?  And should we be surprised when corporations start to flee, as we have dropped recently to eighth on the Economic Freedom Index?

Is it any surprise that in a climate increasingly hostile to business, that there are so many unemployed? So many giving up on finding work?  So many on welfare, including over 46 million on food stamps? And so much unsustainable debt, including national debt now over a year’s worth of GDP at fifteen trillion dollars and growing? Privately held consumer debt of over 2.5 trillion? Student loan debt of over a trillion? Millions of people unable to pay their mortgages….Of course people are going to be angry, and many will blame our “capitalist” system, whose institutional foundations were destroyed nearly a century ago.

What we are seeing in this country is the intentional destruction of the American dream.  The country used to be the envy of the world, drawing millions to our shores at the beginning of the twentieth century, when the government spent less than 8% of GDP on all its functions combined.  A hundred years later, the dominant Democrat Party has become a coalition of three groups: dependents (which it tries to import by the millions through illegal immigration), government and public sector workers (grossly overpaid, as mentioned earlier), and unions (which receive government contracts via failed “stimulus” programs).  In order to pay these constituents, the Democrat Party must exploit producers and penalize creators.  And why should people be surprised at the notion that the Democrat Party seeks to expand its power base by growing government, increasingly exploiting producers, and aggressively expanding dependents (such as offering awards to states to sign up food stamp recipients)?

Now, people are increasingly beginning to flee the country, as socialists are doing to America what they do everywhere else they are given free reign: turning it into a place to run from. The nation is steadily and unhaltingly moving away from the American dream towards a freeloader’s paradise.  The ultimate result, as astute observers have seen time and time again through history, and anyone can currently observe in Europe, is an economy of nearly inescapable poverty and unavoidable corruption.

If we want to return this country to its foundational roots, we need to rejuvenate what Tocqueville termed our “mores” and restore our Constitutional system of laws.  Otherwise, American exceptionalism will become a term of nostalgia, something we tell our uncomprehending children about in an age of decadence and decline.

TIME TO TURN THE TABLES

America is going insane under progressive Socialist Liberal Democarts in name only!!

OVER 100 YEARS THE PROGRESSIVES HAVE STOLEN OUR COUNTRY AND REPLACED IT WITH A FAKE SHELL ...SAME NAME !!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

OUR UPSIDE DOWN COUNTRYSpeaking of having our collective heads buried in the sand, we all need to stand up and begin righting the ship. Welcome to Upside-down Land
You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher “cute but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if....
• The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth-infested cesspools.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• The rights of the Government come before the rights of the individual.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• You have to have your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• An 80 year old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burqa is only subject to having her neck and head searched
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if...
• Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".
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You know you live in an Upside-down Land if....
* Hardworking, law abiding citizens and people of faith, who call themselves “The Tea Party”, and who never demonstrated against anything in their entire lives because they were to busy working, providing for their families, and building and serving our great country but finally had enough to embolden them to act. Then they and applied for and paid for permits to legally and peacefully demonstatrate. They were at all times well behaved, were civil and treated everyone with civility, respected and obeyed law enforcement without question, violated no laws, caused no violence or disruption, and cleaned up after themselves. These members of “The Tea Party” were then refereed to as radicals, racists, hatemonger’s, a wide variety of expletives, and a threat to the country by the the Mainstream News Media, the former Democratic House Speaker and most other Democratic members of Congress, and the President and the Vice President of the United States while these same people lavished praise and support for other people calling themselves “Occupy Wall Street” who never applied or paid for demonstration permits, setup rape tents, interfered with commerce for weeks at a time, violated all manner of law and ordinances, disrespected and disobeyed law enforcement and who were mostly identified themselves as communists, anarchists, socialists, and unions thugs, and most of whom refused to work rather than apply for work, were among the worst of freeloaders, were filthy and stunk with filth, demanded everything for nothing from those who worked and paid their taxes, were mostly anti-American and thought nothing of public nudity, public substance abuse, public sex, defecating on police vehicles, and engaging in all manner of violence.
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Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress. Where do we go from here?
 WE FIGHT BACK... NOW... CHANGE THE WHOLE SYSTEM TO OUR WAY !!

100 YEARS IN THE MAKING!!