Obi-Wan Kenobi
/ 83.5.236.* / 2010-02-01 12:18
Opowiadają bajki o "wolnym rynku", którego nigdy na oczy nikt nie widział...Robią jednocześnie hałas wokół problemów Grecji, a znacznie większe problemy ma Kalifornia (szersza miara bezrobocia 21%, bańka na rynku nieruchomości, której rozładowanie potrwa wiele lat), czy nawet Michigan, którego PKB jest większy niż Grecji...
Yet the irony of this is the Wall Street system still believes in a “free market” world yet they’ve never even lived in anything resembling a free market. Their idea of financial innovation is setting up credit cards with 79.9 percent interest rates and creating mortgages that harm your financial health when you’re not looking.
People are focusing on places like Greece, no doubt a big problem but California has an economy that is 13 percent of U.S. GDP! Michigan has a bigger GDP than Greece ($357 billion) yet so much attention is being given to this issue. Our nation’s number one GDP state has an underemployment rate of 21 percent and is on the precipice of financial insolvency. Not only California, but other states. In fact, many have been borrowing for their unemployment insurance funds trying to keep those long-term unemployed from going into despair: