Relentless

I never liked Vonnegut's style... But the fact is, a century ago you didn't have the mother and father in nearly every household working 5+ days each week. We have more people working today than ever before, and yet our ability to produce now is exponentially greater than at any time in the past on a per worker basis. Automation speeds itself up over time, and we will continue to produce more and more per person in virtually every sector of the economy. We have 20-25% unemployment now if we look at the real numbers. Yet, we seem to not have a single shortage of anything.

Like it or not, short of a massive population falloff we are headed for a time when we will simply have more people than jobs even during 'good' economic times. Vilifying people who are unemployed is moronic. Yes, there will always be a stratum of lazy/stupid/uneducated/undisciplined asshats who deserve to fail. There will also be a tiny fraction at the very top of people who are succesful and truly self-made. However, most poor people and most rich people are much more the result of outside forces than anything else. Upbringing, native intellect, timing, blind luck... Do play a role, and anyone who acts like those things don't is simply being dishonest with themselves.

Disparaging someone for working hard and ending up unemployed is just as dumb as belittiling the accomplishment of someone who worked hard and became financially successful. The reality is that the hard working poor person and hard working rich person have a lot in common. So does the lazy welfare collector and the wealthy trust fund asshat. That's the mistake being made in this country and in this campaign. Romney isn't a genius for turning every advantage in life into a successful outcome. If he were born in another zip code he would have had just as much chance of winding up a bight guy on unemployment. It takes a hell of a lot less to be Donald Trump than it does to be his father Fred Trump, who left him millions.

We are one nation. There are 300 Milkion of us and there will never come a day when all 300 million of us are wealthy. The dividing line includes a whole lot more thn desire and aptitude.very soon there will be plenty of bright, hard working conscientious Americans out of work through no fault of their own... and economic policy won't fix it because it is a simple matter of production per person multiplied by population driving the trend. Oh wait... Look.... It's already starting to happen right now.