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Prediction: the end of this world order this decade (Page 2)
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Bush Tax Cuts == Job Killer
June 2001: 132,047,000 employed
June 2003: 129,839,000 employed
2.21 million jobs were LOST after 2 years of Bush Tax Cuts.
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Thank you for the constructive reply, hyteckit. I don't think that was it, though. What I watched was a lecture in front of a small audience by an older gentlemen, not a film; I watched on Google Video. Perhaps that's related to the same concepts, though. If I searched around I'm sure I could find it.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac 
Thank you for the constructive reply, hyteckit. I don't think that was it, though. What I watched was a lecture in front of a small audience by an older gentlemen, not a film; I watched on Google Video. Perhaps that's related to the same concepts, though. If I searched around I'm sure I could find it.
Yeah, called the Zeitgeist Movie Lecture.
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Bush Tax Cuts == Job Killer
June 2001: 132,047,000 employed
June 2003: 129,839,000 employed
2.21 million jobs were LOST after 2 years of Bush Tax Cuts.
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Oh, okay then. Thank you.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
You first bro, then the world won't quite as bleak to me.
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You're actually saying to another member of NN that the world would be a better place if they committed suicide?
That's not harsh at all. Jeez.
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Originally Posted by sek929
I'm hoarding valuable skills to build my own fortresses and grow my own food for the coming apocalypse. I look forward to the rebirth of New England as a self-sustaining entity, which it has been in the past. We might not get oranges or imported beer but our fertile farmland will rise again while the great plains, no longer helped by artificial irrigation and tapped by over farming, turns into a dust bowl.
You'd probably like this book, World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler. I just finished reading it, and it's one of the better "soft apocalypse" novels I've read. I think it'd be right up your alley.
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Originally Posted by sek929
I'm hoarding valuable skills to build my own fortresses and grow my own food for the coming apocalypse. I look forward to the rebirth of New England as a self-sustaining entity, which it has been in the past. We might not get oranges or imported beer but our fertile farmland will rise again while the great plains, no longer helped by artificial irrigation and tapped by over farming, turns into a dust bowl.
California will finally split into two entities, leaving Southern California to get their own damn water.
Originally Posted by sek929
Globalization is to blame in many ways. Why do I need apples from Turkey in my apple juice? Isn't it easier just to grow them, umm, here? Why does my Stanley tape measure have to be made in taiwan? The Stanley stuff from decades ago is still working, while this new disposable sh!t breaks in months.
You can't get cheap labor in the U.S.. Also, by exploiting cheap labor in other countries, you have to deal with their regional quality standards.
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Originally Posted by ThinkInsane
You'd probably like this book, World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler. I just finished reading it, and it's one of the better "soft apocalypse" novels I've read. I think it'd be right up your alley.
Suggestion noted, thanks 
Originally Posted by olePigeon
You can't get cheap labor in the U.S.. Also, by exploiting cheap labor in other countries, you have to deal with their regional quality standards.
Which is the root of the problem. Companies want to 'save' money so they can pass the 'savings' down to a consumer base that forgot good products cost money.
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Originally Posted by sek929
Which is the root of the problem. Companies want to 'save' money so they can pass the 'savings' down to a consumer base that forgot good products cost money.
Just make sure my fast-food burger has three patties for the same price as one and everyone's happy 
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