Unemployed engineer

[47_MasoN_47]

Originally Posted by RedRide

How do you increase demand? It's extremely simple. Just make shure the masses (the middle class) has disposible income or at least an income the can live on. It is that simple no matter what the millionare "foxes" say!

I'm neither a democrat or a republican. I'm a constitutionalist. Both of the current parties suck and are driven by nothing more than greed. I'd say that feeding any sector of the market exclusively is not the solution...if you dump tons of money into one sector the others suffer and that throws everything off. I do agree that right now the middle class, which I'd also agree is the driving force of the economy, is the most downtrodden. Unfortunately I don't see that changing unless we have an absolute breakdown of the gov't, a revolution, or some other drastic change that probably will end up hurting us worse than anything. There are too many poor people that vote for people that will give handouts, too many rich that will vote for people to give them more money/tax breaks/whatever, and too many people who are just plain stupid to do anything about it.

In short, I think the US is screwed.

[RedRide]

Originally Posted by 47_MasoN_47

I'm neither a democrat or a republican. I'm a constitutionalist. Both of the current parties suck and are driven by nothing more than greed. I'd say that feeding any sector of the market exclusively is not the solution...if you dump tons of money into one sector the others suffer and that throws everything off. I do agree that right now the middle class, which I'd also agree is the driving force of the economy, is the most downtrodden. Unfortunately I don't see that changing unless we have an absolute breakdown of the gov't, a revolution, or some other drastic change that probably will end up hurting us worse than anything. There are too many poor people that vote for people that will give handouts, too many rich that will vote for people to give them more money/tax breaks/whatever, and too many people who are just plain stupid to do anything about it.

In short, I think the US is screwed.

Yeah, sadly I basically agree with that.
I would just add that too many (stupid) people vote againt their own interests.