[Jeanfromfillmore]

Good morning everyone, I have the use of my laptop finally and my pc next week.

Is there any question as to why it seems nothing is functioning today? We've become 'the cheepist way to do it' as our motto. Forty years ago the USA was known as an inovative and quality producer, we were the acme of world production and creativity. Now we're competing with third world producers and losing.

But when a company or business complains that they're paying taxes and overhead while these third worlders undercut them the leftist/communists/socialist cry, "They're only trying to put food on the table" as I heard on the news just yesterday. There seems to be a problem in the Los Felix (can't for the life of me figure out if that's spelled correctly, but it's by Griffith Park) where people are parking their cars along the side of the road and putting for sale signs on them.
Well a reporter went there to check it out and found three cars with basically the same signs with the same handwritting but different phone numbers on each. There was a guy there wiping down the windows of one of the three cars, so the reporter asked him if they were his cars. He replied "no, that he was just there to clean them" so the reporter called one of the phone numbers. Well a woman answered, not knowing it was a reporter calling and said her husband was there and was cleaning the cars, and told the reporter to talk to him about buying the car.
So the reporter then went up to the man cleaning the cars and said, "These are your cars, I want to ask you about them" to which the guy replied, "No, no I, no I, no" Then the reporter said "I want to ask you about the cars you have parked here" to which the guy then replied "I no speak English, I no speak English." The reporter then said, "You speak English, yes you speak English". The guy then replied again "I no speak English" and got into the car quickly and drove away.

The news then read comments that people had posted on twittered about the interview. The first one was from someone who owned a used car business that read: "I pay all my taxes and the cost of running a business, yet these people pay nothing and undercut my prices and I'm struggleing to stay open."
The next one read:"How terrible of those reporters and the news to go after those poor people. In this terrible ecconomy people are struggleing to survive, they're just trying to put food on the table."

This is the attitude of California, screw business and let the "poor" do what ever they want because they're the victims of the greedy businesses. Yet, those same "victims" complain they can't find a job or aren't being paid enough.

Again, do they ever ask why it seems nothing is functioning? This attitude is having an impact on all businesses and services. Our quality of product and services is being cut to the lowest denominator as we compete with the "global economy" and lower our standards to theirs instead of theirs trying to raise to ours. This attitude of 'we're just selfish American using up and exploiting the world' along with the appology tour of Obama, has a great deal to do with it. The liberal/socialist/progressives are more conserned with raising the third world and what impact or consiquences it has on the USA are just insignificant. They think they're the Gandi's and Mother Terrisa's of today and totally ignore what this country and its accomplishments have done to help so many. What will happen when the USA can not come the the rescue in the future? Who will they blame them?