Americans Are Truly Suffering

[Forest]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/10/09...rpt/index.html



Oh boo fucking hoo. Give your daughter a lawn mower and she can get her exercise and take care of the lawn at the same time.

If this is suffering, than America needs to appear on Doctor Phil for some help.

alex

once again you fail to see the obvious.

how about the owners of the lawn care company that is loosing customers left and right and has now had to lay off workers stop paying taxes and maybe go out of business. Same goes for the gymnastics school.

People cant pay taxes, services go down property values plummet even worse more banks going into failure

get the point now?

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by Forest

alex

once again you fail to see the obvious.

how about the owners of the lawn care company that is loosing customers left and right and has now had to lay off workers stop paying taxes and maybe go out of business. Same goes for the gymnastics school.

People cant pay taxes, services go down property values plummet even worse more banks going into failure

get the point now?

The point is just out of your grasp, I think.

The problem comes back to the unnecessary stuff of life. The US went from an economy of production to an economy of service. Services are often "extras", the whip cream not the pie, as it were. When you have an economy of nothing but extras, it takes very little to make the dominoes fall.

Quite simply, the US (and much of the western world) became complacent, lazy, and willing to pay people to clean up behind them, and in turn, it has created an economy dependant on nobody doing anything for themselves.

It sucks when people think that "financial woes" means losing their lawn service. It tells you everything you need to know about it all ended up happening.

Ohyeah, Sarettah: "financial woes" means suffering, no? The woman is speaking about cutting lawn service like she is making a huge cutback in her life. As far as the interview goes, he sure sounds like she is suffering. Real "financial woes" happen when you lose your house, your car, your job, and your family. Until then, it's just one less scoop of ice cream for dinner. There are plenty of people out there actually suffering, for this women to even suggest that cutting back her lawn service even qualifies as a news story is beyond understanding.