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I didn’t know that the Mexican economy is booming. I do know that the Panama economy is/has taken off and growth is being seen everywhere. Well, anyway good news for the Mexican people.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/newsline/201404241016.html
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I didn’t know that the Mexican economy is booming. I do know that the Panama economy is/has taken off and growth is being seen everywhere. Well, anyway good news for the Mexican people.
Yep, I remember VP Joe Biden saying that it was all about that 3 letter word: J-O-B-S (Fuzzy math, I guess)
Too bad it isn’t J-O-B-S here in the States
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@Bluezhawk wrote:
@6stringer wrote:
I didn’t know that the Mexican economy is booming. I do know that the Panama economy is/has taken off and growth is being seen everywhere. Well, anyway good news for the Mexican people.
Yep, I remember VP Joe Biden saying that it was all about that 3 letter word: J-O-B-S (Fuzzy math, I guess)
Too bad it isn’t J-O-B-S here in the States
You know Keith, here in Japan, it too is all about jobs, but the sad part is much of the large scale manufacturing stuff from clothes to auto have left this country. Sad, because these days you see 40 year olders at the employment office, something you’d never see in the past. Good jobs are hard to land these days and temps hiring services are doing good business getting people part time temporary jobs, some full time jobs too, but they are on a 3 year contract. No more job security in this country.
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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@6stringer wrote:
@Bluezhawk wrote:
@6stringer wrote:
I didn’t know that the Mexican economy is booming. I do know that the Panama economy is/has taken off and growth is being seen everywhere. Well, anyway good news for the Mexican people.
Yep, I remember VP Joe Biden saying that it was all about that 3 letter word: J-O-B-S (Fuzzy math, I guess)
Too bad it isn’t J-O-B-S here in the States
You know Keith, here in Japan, it too is all about jobs, but the sad part is much of the large scale manufacturing stuff from clothes to auto have left this country. Sad, because these days you see 40 year olders at the employment office, something you’d never see in the past. Good jobs are hard to land these days and temps hiring services are doing good business getting people part time temporary jobs, some full time jobs too, but they are on a 3 year contract. No more job security in this country.
Its really hard to find decent work these days. The corp that I would worked for last sent all of our jobs to Shanghai and a facility in Mexico. As a team leader, I had to train new temps on a rotating basis b/c when their 2 years were up, they had to be moved on.
There is no more ‘American dream’ as it was when we were growing up. People don’t work for companies 40 and 50 years anymore. When it came down to it, my 17 years of service to that company was just as volatile as the temps that we employed. No longer a skilled worker that was valuable but a number that could easily be replaced by a different warm body with a number that could be trained.I included that quote from Joe Biden b/c my son always laughs at Joe’s gaffes, which are numerous. The job situation is worse that it was, we were losing jobs under GW Bush and we were losing them under Clinton.
Where will it end?
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Keith you say where will it end ? Don’t know but it’s scary. All over the world, the richer are getting ridiculously richer and “middle class” is becoming “working poor” and the poor are becoming destitute. Wakes me up at night sometimes, next year my pension will be in danger of being pulled by US Steel. If that happens will probably lose the home. Who says white guys can’t play the blues.
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@TeleToons wrote:
Keith you say where will it end ? Don’t know but it’s scary. All over the world, the richer are getting ridiculously richer and “middle class” is becoming “working poor” and the poor are becoming destitute. Wakes me up at night sometimes, next year my pension will be in danger of being pulled by US Steel. If that happens will probably lose the home. Who says white guys can’t play the blues.
Rog,
Lets hope for the best concerning your pension. I had to leave the work place last year when I was 57 due to the after effects of a car accident in 2008. We’ve had to set our finances in order and dip into my retirement to get moved into our new location. As I think of my situation, I have to chuckle at these commercials from investment companies asking the question ‘Will your money run out before time after you retire?’ or Do you have enough money to last for your whole retirement.
If they only realized the condition of many that are in North America. Investors are making money but if you don’t have the money to invest in either stocks or maybe your own company, you can’t make money – and both of those are ‘IF’y” things to invest in.
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@TeleToons wrote:
Keith you say where will it end ? Don’t know but it’s scary. All over the world, the richer are getting ridiculously richer and “middle class” is becoming “working poor” and the poor are becoming destitute. Wakes me up at night sometimes, next year my pension will be in danger of being pulled by US Steel. If that happens will probably lose the home. Who says white guys can’t play the blues.
You know Tele, there is so much uncertainty in the world these days, it’s almost like you just want to go back to living in a cave an start living off the land again. I just found out that the pension here is only $2000 a year. Yep! And I’ve been paying monthly into it at $150 a month for many years. Sucks I tell you.
The melody of the notes is what expresses the art of music . 🙂 6stringerPete
It really is all about ”melody”. The melody comes from a language from our heart. Our heart is the muscle in music harmony. The melody is the sweetness that it pumps into our musical thoughts on the fretboard. 🙂 6 stringer Pete
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I have worked on my own and for large companies. I have also worked for defense contractors, boy what a rude surprise. Never again. I have never made the (big bucks), like many with degrees do. I have always done the blue collar hard labor stuff. My best years were when I was self employed as a body shop owner. Now, that I am near 60 and have health issues, you can’t find anything at all. In my years I have never seen so many people out of work. Its sad. I have never seen jobs come and go like this either. Its like if you go to school, or get retrained , by the time you are ready for a new job its fazed out!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I have learned something very valuable in my life. It doesn’t matter who is president!!! I blame every president the last 40 years. Political parties don’t matter. We all may argue who is bad or good. But all these politicians don’t care about us working people at all. In fact since the Great Depression not many know of the hardships all of us go through. Hey they always get a paycheck and a life long retirement too. All they do is get us mad at each other. In fact I think they enjoy it………………………………fresnojohns
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I have worked on my own and for large companies. I have also worked for defense contractors, boy what a rude surprise. Never again. I have never made the (big bucks), like many with degrees do. I have always done the blue collar hard labor stuff. My best years were when I was self employed as a body shop owner. Now, that I am near 60 and have health issues, you can’t find anything at all. In my years I have never seen so many people out of work. Its sad. I have never seen jobs come and go like this either. Its like if you go to school, or get retrained , by the time you are ready for a new job its fazed out!!!!!!!!!!!!
But I have learned something very valuable in my life. It doesn’t matter who is president!!! I blame every president the last 40 years. Political parties don’t matter. We all may argue who is bad or good. But all these politicians don’t care about us working people at all. In fact since the Great Depression not many know of the hardships all of us go through. Hey they always get a paycheck and a life long retirement too. All they do is get us mad at each other. In fact I think they enjoy it………………………………fresnojohns
Go into a pawn shop sometime and look at the tools that they have for sale. One shop worker told me that a lot of tools are brought in still in box and they are purchased for a fourth of what they were purchased for at the stores. Virtually any tool you need a great prices. Why? No work and they have a family to feed. Some money is better than no money.
Since the late 80s, I worked for 2 major corporations. Laid off from the first one after 7 years, laid off from the 2nd one after 17 years. American worker are numbers to the corporations. The US government needs to be more ‘user friendly’ for small business owners to launch their ventures and to provide good income and jobs to local people.
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