4 Problems That Could Sink America

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Maybe also change the way bonuses are decided let's say you have an employee whom does 60 percent of other's work besides his own 100 percent why not pay him percentage based on the other employee's work completion forms? AT all levels in all corporations? Bet most of the upper management VP ect.. wouldn't know how to help finish the work... yes I know this personally from 28 years at a white collar companies as BLAHBLAH _DT, SECURITY LINK ect.......... 89 percentage of the corparate don't know how to help work out via person to person nor the knowledge behind rescuing account's employee's they really just look at paper and numbers all day yet they are perfectionist at sending intimidating emails if the employee has hit a blank wall.. There are always solutions and ways around the walls but hey according to them that's not thier job? hm wonder why my husband goes out of his way doing the job of 4 corporate employee's day and night we are in the same house and yet see each other maybe 20 min.s every 3rd day of his work week.... lol takes calls at 10pm at night to help employee's under him and they are not even in his branch or field ? how often does this happen? I would have to guess being 54 years old myself and in illinois .. probably 1 in 7.000 maybe? And not five to ten minutes of help 10's to 100' s of thousands in help to others .. Neither of us thinks negative of this and his bonus is only based on 5 percent of other's earnings not accurately fair considering the hours for job completion hey maybe he will get a gold star on day ... But I can promise I won't give his money away to someone who can but won't work I already have that system in place. and I mean no cell phone payments or did I forget to call those Ball n Chain = phone .
And it is obvious some groups are going to impose population limiting near future hope everyone knows how to garden and where to get the correct heirloom seeds if you think there is no difference your highly ( HYBRID cough cough) mistaken , stay away from my garden we don't use scare crows we use the real deal bang bang bang.. oh am I still allowed to have thses? If not I have a neighbor whom is an old blacksmith has 4 ovens and reloaders ghee did I bother to learn the trade from him? was it a waste of my female free time? so time to go watch the flood warnings that they arent going to tell us about our power company let open gates last year and flooded many homes of others I have talked to from meeting them at stores ghee can they do that? just open a gate and let that water rip and nothing ever gets said about it they didn't even know why it flooded but I did and didn't have the heart to tell them since looking at them and thier finacial SITUATION how would they begin to get that recitfied? 981 8276,

tired n runnin of IN 12:59PM March 25, 2010

Wrong I believe that our kids are very lazy and very preoccupied with texting cell phones the parents and even held ransom for these un needed luxuries for children under 15? ccom on i dread the day my 5 year old grandson dares to ask me for a cell phone or if his parents have bought him one already I will promise it will end up in the ditch here or our swamp, And I but he or any other child will be to lazy to search for it .......... then there's everyone has to go to college? and most of the time they don't ever work to pay their way thru.. I have seen to many lazy people just in my area alone I can promise you I have told them this several times, while thier eyes roll. ghee so you think any of them would offer to till my garden or hrlp weed and composte god forbid if they had to shovel manure!! I am sick of lazies and have family that I don't even socialize or visit because of this ... Also have the other grammy she tends to go paint for her grown daughters 30 yrs of age because they call her with her arthritis legs and fingers and tell her they dont know how to paint?? so I check with grammy later on and she actually went thier not to instruct and do a few pointers hell she painted the whole living room as she watched the two grand children and picked one up from school so you can imagine what I told her how she is ruining it for us other grandparents that just want to be fun and enjoy them the grand childrena and watch them on occasions my my do you think it even set in? your right it didn't she began to tell me how her husband the same day had ordered her to make mostoccoli for 10 people from the Legion bar that somehow cant seem to learn to cook for themselves at over 58 years old? people are making it worse on the younger by giving $$$ and giving in I did see a street person at a local DD where others where bringing him coofee and donuts on monthly basis as I approached him once only and asked if he would rake the the football field for 40.00 he said no his back hurt to much yet he sat on a stiff bench probably for over 7 hours which is a highly bad thing for a spine as i myself have 3 herniated disk's and do not go for social security disablity .. hm go figure that one out , oh and my son's ex girlfreinds daughter at 11 wanted the phone . she got one then didnt have min,s after a week so Iasked her to do household chores her own and mine and some of son's she barely got dishes done and told her mom she earned 40.00 LOL and her mom gave it to her on the sly. wonderful since it has been 4 years son is not with the ex as ex wont mean, but she has gotten sexual with the head of a gang leader... imagine that and doesn't want public private or homeschool ,, imagine that,,, as I did't say HER grandmother was raising her also so mom could work and go to bars imagine that... which is so typical

pat of IN 12:19PM March 25, 2010

True, Americans work a few more hours per week than Europeans, but that is a bad example, their economies are and have been in decline for years. Look to China, South Korea, Asia, and still Japan, they work longer hours and more days per year. Their economies are strong, and with the exception of Japan, growing. There are lots of reasons for it. It used to be that Europeans "Worked to Live" and Americans "Lived to Work". Frenchman get six weeks vacation, compared the the average American's two or three. Now more Americans think that Europe is the direction to follow, but the old saying goes "Follow the money", and that is going to China and Asia, not Europe.
The answer is not just hours worked though. Ultimately we need to re-invent America so the money flows 'in' and products/services flow 'out'. Ie. Make and sell stuff people want. At the moment the only 'in' money flow is borrowed, and one way or another that is going to have to be repaid.

Desert Bob of CA 3:07PM March 10, 2010

It may be too late to retrain any young Americans into working for a living, instead of trying to game the system.
Parents are afraid to show their kids how to work, as it may cause them (sic) to work hard too!

Pirate Jack of CA 5:33PM March 06, 2010

Nonsense. The average U.S. employee work several more hours per week than his European counterpart. And you don't have to work 80 hours a week to be successful. Next time, try leavening your talk with some facts.

Mike of MN 2:26AM March 05, 2010

i'm gonna make my own post about it

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adjuct of AL 12:18PM February 22, 2010

I believe sacrifice could be a good thing, but I'm afraid that workers will take more hours at lower pay to protect the bonuses of fat cats, not for the good of the company or economy. I saw on the news the other day that one bank's losses were roughly half the cost of all the bonuses they awarded in the same year. Hence it makes sense to me that instead of giving them a bailout, we should have made them use their bonuses to cover the losses. That is the way a small business works. The owner doesn't get to put his or her pay check on the company credit account if the business makes no profit. Why should the decision makers with large stakes in a company be subject to different rules? I don't mind the idea of working double the number of hours to get by, as long as I'm getting proportionately higher pay. There is nothing to say that will happen though. I will work a 16 hour day, get paid for working a 10 hour day, and the gain in productivity will go to some fat cat who works a 10 hour WEEK simply because he has the power to decide what my work is worth. The traditional proactive response to this concern is to say that I should go into business for myself. Well what if everyone did that? Do you think there would be large passenger jets if all the airplane manufacturers had exactly one employee? Do you thing we would have Windows and Excel and Word if Microsoft had exactly one employee? Probably not. These things require collaboration on a massive scale. This is why the current structure of hierarchical business was created in the first place: it creates an incentive structure for effective collaboration, in which some people yield their power to others in order to achieve unified goals for the whole, and hence be able to achieve greater things than the individuals could, acting purely out of self interest. The problem is that among the powerful, self interest has crept back in. Ways of bypassing the natural consequences poor decision-making and shifting them onto other people has happened in capitalism, just like the artificial rules of communism tend to be bypassed by those entrusted to enforce them. Stop assuming this is the fault of the working man or woman. As for kids going to malls instead of school in the summer, what do you think would happen if we proposed tearing down the malls? Big business would cry bloody murder. Distracting kids from school is insanely profitable in the short run. It is a bad incentive system. Businesses spend millions, if not billions, to get kids to shop and play video games and see movies, but schools won't even invest in decent text books. Would the world come to a screeching halt if math and science were useful and reading was interesting? Probably not. Kids are a captive audience though, so school books are written accordingly. That has to change or the students' resistance to education will continue to grow.

Owen N of WV 6:08PM February 17, 2010

The facts are that there has never been a country or culture who has stayed on top forever. We in the United States are no exception to that rule not for what we haven't done or for that matter what we have done but there is a large world out there that we compete against every second of every day.
When I was young I was amazed at the work ethic of the old immigrants that populated our area, they wouldn't think twice about working a double shift in a mine with all it dangers and back breaking work. My generation said thanks but no thanks wether they were educated or not. Regardless of there work ethic the mines out lived there usefulness in our enviroment. There are now but a few miners left either by thier choice or by regularation.
This applies to everything we do and every effort to stay step ahead of the countries we compete against. All the rhetoric from Academia, Politicians and CEO's of large companies will not change the course of history. The goal should be a united effort by every person rgardless of status to work the common goal for all of our people and not special interest. Can I trust a college within a university that is being funded by a special interest group to be objective let alone someone running for office. The monster we built is now turning against us. If you ever had the chance to sit in corporate meeting and were not consummed by the amount of GREED being present you would have been a sleep or on some kind of medication to take the edge off.
It's difficult to get two people in the room to agree on a plan of attack and then consistenly execute the plan let alone an entire country.
I LOVE this country but some time ago we past the threshold of being the elite country we once were. Maybe the new goal is to shore up what we still have.

paul of PA 4:58PM February 13, 2010