Reply #15: Just on one of your points.

[blues90]

All of the technology has advanced so fast that when you consider as people age even though they had good skills to do many jobs such as a carpenter which requires manual skills as well as intelligence and they made a good living yet as time went on it was no longer a hammer and saws and drills and a tool belt it is now an assortment of high tech tools that are expensive so where does that leave the capable carpenter now. It's the same with auto repair.

Now many who could do a certain job are pushed out if they can't keep up with the rapidly changing times.

Many jobs require computor skills beyond the average user so since there is no on the job training they are left to either pay for education or be left behind. Yet right behind them are highschool grads with these skills willing to work for less and out goes to long time loyal worker.

Now any job has, what is it a 6 person to one job ratio . I read about a factory that makes washing machines had 100,000 applicants within a few days for 90 jobs, it paid $11.30 per hour with benefits.

We never saved anything and the worst part is people who had well developed skills are now tossed to the side like garbage .

Years ago things did not change so fast , a certain skill could get a few generations through life and a good life and a livable one.

I have skills but with the many interviews I went to I did find they sort by age and I tested out better than most others but they are not going to choose a 61 year old over a 21 year old even at the same wage.

You are right , the way things are playing out people will be killing another to get a chance at the greeter job.

People cannot be treated as obsolete equipment yet they are .

We have a trickle down economy still in play , all the money is in the hands of the top and held there and gambled with.

What are people do to now just go off and die now. That seems to tbe the answer in a hidden message.