*Why so many youth unemployed....free trade, globalization and the dismantling of tariff barriers. Most of our society ills come from this alone.*

Funny that, Sonofgloin. Given the amount of women working today,
there would be far more jobs out there then ever there were,
when there were tariff barriers.

More like mommy and daddy now have so much money that they can
afford to buy the spoilt little brats a smartphone each, so
that they can run riot at the riots.

You generation has given kids life on a plate, now they expect life
on a plate and chuck a wobbly when they don't get it.

So I blame you parents :)

Days Run Away Like Horses Over the Hills

Houellebecq said;
When nobody is paying taxes...

Well then you get Greece !

Britain is well ahead in the low growth stakes, maybe they have even
gone into contraction. They just no longer have the money for the
welfare state but the people generally have not realised it yet as
they are still in the magic pudding mind set.

When they do realise it is so there will be a short dead silence, but
then they will look for someone to blame.
The only ones to blame are the governments that would not listen to
Colin Campbell when he warned back in the 1990s that oil production
would peak around 2006. The Blair government had a report prepared
on the problem and when they received it they said "Oh Dear hide it".
It took the Guardian newspaper to take the government to court to get
the freedom of information laws enforced before it could be obtained.

Because as Hirsch warned, it will take 20 years to make the
transition to other energy sources the situation will not improve,
and will probably get worse from this point on.
Expect to see time limits on unemployment benefits before too long.

"Welcome to the Post Peak Oil World !"

Houlley
How can you make a judgement that Pericles is right - he has not said anything.

No I don't want business to fall in a heap nor am I pushing a socialist agenda. It is modern governments that have socialised big business. Corporate welfare is the new socialist state and accepting that some of these decisions have been to 'save jobs' (whatever that means) it is hardly the place of government to provide an easy fail-safe position for the priveleged few when their greed runneth over. We are not talking about saving the corner store.

Obama has been pushed into a corner over tax increases for the wealthy while reducing social welfare for the poor.

Something is not quite right with the big picture. You can label it within the narrow confines of Left and Right but it is much more complicated than ideological biases, and much more to do with distribution and management of power.

Someone said;
"It is all very well to look down on other people and make sideline comments or judgements Pericles, but without context it is just as meaningless as the opening post that just puts it out there without explanation, background or any analysis."

The opening post seems to have worked!
Those of you who have been to Uni, will recognize the technique (-,-)

If these kids listened to more Desmond Dekker and less Tupac they'd probably have a better outlook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWv9sraaCVA
"Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, so that every mouth can be fed. Poor me, Israelite. Aah. Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir, So that every mouth can be fed. Poor me, Israelite. Aah. My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me. Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen. Poor me, Israelite. Aah. Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are go. I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde. Poor a poor me, Israelite. Aah. After a storm there must be a calm. They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm. Poor a poor me, Israelite. Aah. Poor me, the Israelite. I wondering a working so hard. Poor me, Israelite, look down on-a me sir"

A little Jimmy Cliff, man, never a truer word:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18EAqHx2lMk