HOW ARE YOU DOING ?

Just a quick graph showing an overview of what has happened to us during the first decade of the new millenium.

Pretty good if you're a corporation or a banker or a speculator or an oil company. Not so good if you're an average Joe who needs a job and uses a car.

A smaller number of employees drawing 5% less wages than 10 years ago has produced a 118% increase in corporate profits.

That's just greedy. Is it any wonder people are beginning to copy the fat cats and just take whatever they want whenever they can?

What's the difference between a politician making multiple expense claims for flat screen TVs and somebody looting a TV shop during a riot?

Answer : The politician gets delivery included.

99ers SET TO TAKE OFF !

In the United States, unemployment benefits are only paid for a maximum of 99 weeks or just less than 2 years.

After that period, that's it. You're on your own.

After the banking crisis of Autumn 2008, unemployment began to soar. Every week the number of unemployed rose. These job losses continued for 55 weeks at a weekly increase of between 50,000 and 200,000 per week.

The worst period was from November 2008 to October 2009. But even since October 2009, the number of new jobs created has never exceeded 50,000 per week.

The net effect of all of the above statistics is that from December 2010 there are likely to be around 50,000 people losing their benefits every week. This figure will get significantly worse up tom around April 2011 when around 200,000 people will lose their benefits every single week.

It remains to be seen what such large numbers of disenfranchised people will do about this over the coming months.

Keep 'em peeled!

WEALTH CREATION or Button Pressers & Mouse Clickers

There are few real ‘first world’ jobs now.

Most first worlders spend 99% of their time pressing buttons on PCs, phones etc, under the illusion that the work they are doing is either useful, adding value or creating wealth.

So, they are thinking about wealth concept in the context of their mouse clicking rather than the reality of their own Orwellian existences.

A good indicator of wealth creation is toil based sweat.

Deluded office based career people (button pressers and mouse clickers) often think that their wealth creation indicator is stress.

This condition is experienced by a high proportion of first worlders.

The reality is that the stress is only an indicator of their own frustration and/or uselessness and has no correlation with adding value or wealth.

At some point, probably soon, the number of clickers and pressers will have to be rationalised. Watch out for the social and economic fallout.

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