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Maybe all the wealth is concentrated on the few and we aren't really that rich per capita. I'd say america is alot like the titanic, pretty boat but most full of peasants. Should anything go wrong I bet most of us would drown.

2007-06-25 06:11:22 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government Politics

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Corporate greed regardless of consequences to fellow Americans, it's immoral.

2007-06-25 06:15:51 · answer #1 · answered by Resurrected 2 · 4 5

If you have ever worked in the US the answer would soon be very clear to you, Ineffeciency, lacking in organisational structure, too many people working on the same project at the same time ( un-beknown to each other ) American workers are just like any others in the world, some are lazy and some work very hard, it is the half assed way they are organised which is the problem, what I have seen in management in the US is that honest communication is nil, they are too busy with their own agenda of getting ahead, or too busy doing nothing, and the result of that is that the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, this is the way most of the US is, so no one sees or knows any different, the inefficeincy is absorbed in this land of abundance in natural resource and no one seems to be bothered, they seem to like chaos just as long as they get there in the end, if you even hint at the fact that Europeans do things differently or better, this usually causes offense, because this is after all the greatest nation in the world and will not change for anyone, yeah so what the metric system might be more acurate and simple to use but we don't want it d'hear!!!
thats the sort of stubborn mule mentality you are up against.

I was working with a group of German engineers over there and they couldn't stop laughing at the way Americans did things, and kept cracking the usual jokes about how many Americans does it take to change a light bulb etc...

One guy I was working with would quite often would work 24 hours with no rest, the management loved it, the guy was dead on his feet by the end of the week, he usually achieved nothing in the second twelve hours, but that didn't matter, he was there!!! in the end he made so many mistakes that he lost he lost his job.

America is a rich country, but the average man on the street is not, in fact I would say he is a lot poorer than his counter part in say Britain for instance, sadly the reality is that the American dream is more likely to be the American pie in the sky.

Americans are great people, they are up-beat most of the time, and do not moan and whinge as much as the British who expect everything doing for them, but do need to wake up to the fact that the way they work and the amount of free time they have is about 50 years behind the rest of the western world.

2007-06-25 14:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the world of political reality.
Actually, our land is rich; the San Joaquin valley in California feeds half the world. We as average Americans used to pretty wealthy; this was in the last century before the 1970’s. The dollar bought 4 D Marks, a very hard currency; That was before Ronnie the likable semi-actor took office. When he left the dollar bought less than one D Mark. The kitchen math is simple; devaluation around 75%.
Our politicians enrich themselves at our expense, cling to office in favor of work and serve special interest and big money. The “village-idiot” would call this public service but we all know what it really is.
So, our politicians get richer; the wealthy get wealthier, the peasant class (new to America since Republicans gained power) now can get $7.50 per hour. OH! The Glory! Repugnantanism, our national malaise.
Did I remember to say, Yes we used to be rich? The luxury of gross incompetence in government can be really expensive however, as we have found out.
Jim D

2007-06-25 13:32:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

How do you think that it came to be that America is the most industrious nation in the world? By working 30 hour weeks and taking 6 weeks of vacation? Go to Italy, where they have four hour lunches, and a hole in the street stays there for months on end without getting repaired.

Now go back to your house that took six weeks to build, and drive there in your car that was made in one day, and drive on the road that was built in a matter of months because the workers put in 10 hour days, and didn't stop to take vacations, and sit on your couch and ***** about poor Americans working too hard.

2007-06-25 13:54:20 · answer #4 · answered by Brad the Fox 3 · 1 0

It is up to you to make your own wealth.... you don't do that by sitting at home and wait for the gravy train or slave reparations. We work hard and if you are smart, you invest your money so when you can either no longer work or don't wish to work, you won't have to. America is one of the few countries in the world where if you are smart enough and don't have a slave mentality, you can get ahead in your life and be wealthy.

The people that don't get ahead generally don't invest their money or don't plan their families right. That is why they are dependent on and are at the mercy of a job to pay for their lifestyle.

2007-06-25 14:06:21 · answer #5 · answered by Kenneth C 6 · 0 0

What is it about vacations that bother you people? Yea, some countries in Europe get 4-6 weeks vacation every year and only work 35 hour weeks, but so what! They're productivity is less than the U.S. They have so many gaurantees (child care, healthcare, etc) but thier economies are failing and unemployment is higher. Heck, they're mostly socialist countries and most are failing. France, in their last election a month or two back elected a president who pledged to change things (no guaranteed job< etc) because the people finally realized their economy couldn't continue to support those ideas.

2007-06-25 13:18:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Peoples go to work to pay their debt... The richest have no debt...
So an average American family that earn 100k$ a year will spend 120K the first year, and maybe 80K the next year to pay off the debt, and then the third year they will spend 130K and then....
You know, everydoy want to become rich and play this game all over, hoping to come closer to the million... This is only dream...

2007-06-25 13:41:13 · answer #7 · answered by Jedi squirrels 5 · 1 0

Most industrialized countries work a lot. We work, Japan works, Europe works a lot in spite of France basically taking August off. You work to get ahead. And if something goes wrong, somehow I think the people who are used to working will be just fine.

2007-06-25 13:27:56 · answer #8 · answered by Deep Thought 5 · 0 0

I wondered where people got the idea that we were lazy.
I have had 2 days off so far this year- my grandmother -in-law died and then I took 2 weeks when my Mom died 2 years ago.


Well- maybe it's not so bad but I would still rather not be here at work today.

2007-06-25 13:19:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

We have vacation, its just that most companies pooled it together with our paid sick time so the only way you can get it is to not get sick for a year.

Good luck if youve got kids! Its nearly impossible to not get sick when they got to germ-riddled schools.

Its amazing, all these people call you lazy, but I bet if any of them had to really start at the bottom they wouldnt have made it a year. No sick leave, no health insurance offered, low pay, if youre lucky a week of vacation a year. What would you do if you got sick? What would do if your kids got sick? What would do if a family member died? Do you lose your job to take care of everything, or do you just neglect your family and yourself to take care of your future, and hope you still have one to take care of?

2007-06-25 13:31:13 · answer #10 · answered by Showtunes 6 · 2 0

Because in virtually EVERY American employment business chain infrastructure, you have degrees of corrupted elements who drain (steal) valued company profits by clogging up business proficiencies with frivolous waste.

You have in these employment infrastructures not only banal criminals stealing company $$$$ and / or equipment, but such people normally are INEPT and have NO business even in the capacities of responsibility they currently enjoy.

Help is on the way: Look for the birth of stinging employee protective laws against "administrative abuse" comming REAL soon.

2007-06-25 13:17:39 · answer #11 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 0 1

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