I have to post this for a point of reference.
The best "employer" ever never paid a salary, overtime, benefits. They never pitched in for a retirement fund or gave paid holidays.
They never visited the office, never asked for any extra work and never made you mad by being your boss.
The old U.S.S.R. was one of the greatest assest to American industry in the last half of the 1900's.
Auto plants with government/military contracts were the main employers throughout the Southern California area. Aerospace manufacturingplantes were HUGE out here. Boeing, Lockheed, Martin Marietta, Raytheon. The Los Angeles Harbor-as a major inlet for products used in the 'cold war effort' was and to some extent- still is a huge employer.
We have no major enemy or conflict that requires us to tool up or ramp up the production of materials used to fight a conflict or war.
Some of our current problems are partially to blame for the monetary hassles we have at the moment. Historically we have to be challenged, as a nation, to be our very best.
The gas crunch of the last year was a very good rallying point. We did just enough parking to show that we can be responsible for our oil usage.
As with everything else, it impacts the rest of our lives-lower expectations of the Christmas spending sprees, fewer of us traveling, credit freezes. The housing crash.
We will get thru all this. The world will not stop spinning because of fewer dollars being spent. It will spin no matter what. All it takes is the adjustment of lifestyle and a little hard work in our lives.
More home cooked meals?
Less TV time?
More walking on errands?
Less driving around for one errand?
WHen we take the extra dollars and stop spending them haphazardly - investing in the basic purchases for living, we will see that base get stronger and prepare us for the future.
I have faith-it's cheap, non polluting and has given me 10 gazillion miles-worry free.
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