the thing to keep in mind..
American families who want 3000 sq foot homes, a big ole pickemup truck, an suv, a speedboat, a camper, a vacation cottage, a big vacation to Disney, all the best clothes and all the new toys for the kiddies....
And they demand HIGH paying jobs to pay for it on time....
house poor, vehicle poor, toy poor, when one or both gets laid off the whole house of cards comes tumbling down...
and they'll stay on unemployment rather than take a min wage job to 'get by' until things pick up...
my dh got laid off and I worked temp jobs and he painted houses just to pay the bills....
We drive by construction sites on the highways and no young people on the crews - it's not a job they want - too much work....
this is what happens with generations of gimme gimme I deserve and "I won't do a job I hate"..
manufacturers are NOT philanthropist - they are in business for PROFIT... when workers DEMAND the profit the manufacturer says, 'say what??'...
A welfare state of any kind is doomed to failure - this 'spreading the wealth around' ain't gonna work - the ones with the wealth are leaving this country in droves....
Face it, they do NOT owe anybody anything, nobody's hand is free to stick in somebody else's pocket...
it's too early in the am - gotta get another coffee LOL