Originally Posted by Paul Markham

This post shows you the problem. Anyone who thinks Obama caused this is a fool. Sorry mate but it's true.

We are to blame by giving ourselves a life style we could not afford and had to borrow from the countries we are now in hock to to support. We are to blame for voting for Governments based on how little tax we would pay, even if the tax cuts were paid for with borrowed money. We are to blame for living the dream that we could send manufacturing jobs to places where workers earned $5 a day and still compete with them. We are to blame for buying those goods. We are to blame for not having Governments who would stick the thieves like the bosses of Enron and Maddorf in jail. Yes the guy that stole billions is sitting in his swanky apartment hiding his wealth while people who trusted his lies are having their homes taken away or living on a worthless pension.

Did you get that? We are to blame for where we are now and passing the blame to Obama is not the solution. We are to blame for thinking Obama is the solution.

What is the solution? Tax to fund people to go to University to learn the skills we need. You want to be a lawyer, tax accountant or doctor you pay for it with your taxes and you pay for the scientists and engineers who will make the goods to get us out of the hole.

We get people who would not be working, not paying taxes and costing us all money to work. Building the infrastructure of our countries. We stop thinking that the "Trickle Down" theory on wealth works. If it did we would not be where we are today. The problem is we need to stop thinking that greed is good.

We need to realise a boss earning $500,000 a year will keep of much of that money as possible and spend more abroad than someone on $25,000 a year. AND he will open a factory or call center in Malaysia and put out of work hundreds of workers in Detroit because he can make more money to keep.

We are in this position today because those people in Detroit now don't have jobs to buy his goods or service he moved to Malaysia. But no worries, he did not let too much trickle down and he's in his walled villa in the Bahamas.

You can't even get a job there, he's got Mexicans working because they're cheaper.

Seriously if you're 35 or younger it has been going on since you were born.