There is a severe problem arising in the United States - up to date unnoticed by the general public and just recently getting attention in the media:
Unemployment in the age group between 24 and 34 has risen enormously during the last decade.
| country | 2000 | 2011 |
[OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ) statistical data]
As the figures show this seems to be a trend in other countries, too, but at a much more moderate level.
The NYTimes reports that scientists are guessing what the reason for this desaster might be - my best guess is:
An overwhelming and ever increasing part of the U.S.-corporations are not producing goods any more - there is no substance produced for years now, and the growth of the economy depends on one hand mainly on software & related products, on the other on the banking sector with all the flaws discovered since 2010.
But who will believe me - compared to some renowned Professors who are clueless?
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" .. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the
beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200
years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage .. "
[Citation; According to "sn0pes" attributed to the following source]
According to another researcher -Loren Collins: The Truth About Tytler- it is not sure WHO said the cited passage, but it seems to fit into speeches made at dinners where conservatives gather.
Assuming the said text holds true - where are we today?
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We hang petty thieves, and appoint the bigger thieves to public office.
[Aesop, Greek slave & fable author]
[Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher]
[N. S. Chruschtschow; Soviet-Russian politician]
[Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defense' by Irving Stone]
[John Quinton; American actor/writer]
" . if they stop telling lies about me,
I will stop telling the truth about them .. ".
[Adlai Stevenson; campaign speech, 1952]
[Texas Guinan; 19th century American businessman]
[Charles de Gaulle; French general & politician]
What happens if a politician drowns in a river?
That is pollution.
What happens if all of them drown?
That is solution!
[Thanks, JG.!]
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