It's your own fault....you didn't plan!! Really??

@Koriana (302)
United States
September 7, 2009 3:53am CST
this if for all those out there, who is so quick to blame someone's hard times on their lack of responsibility, their lack of "planning" I am just wondering here... How could NY apple orchard owners ever have planned for having the gov't step in, and bribe the juice manufacturer to import apple concentrate from halfway across the world instead of using the fresh apples that are growing all around them? How could the hotel manager plan when any day, a developer could rub elbows with a few of his elected representatives and arrange to have his brand new hotel built a half a block away, with all the initial investments coming from the taxpayer....how could all those other hotel chains that also inhabited that small area plan for such an insanity? How could any of us have planned for our government, giving the green light to wall street, mortgage writers, big bankers, ect, and well....enabling what is probably the biggest scam that has ever happened to the world's economic system? How does one plan for when the government decides to pay $3/child in child care to that single mother of four so she can go out and get a $6/hour job..... and well after that, how does she go out and compete with this mother for those jobs, when right up front, she now need over $9/hour just to pay the child care costs? How does one plan for much of anything, when this years taxes will surely increase so significantly next year, when the fees for basic services will double, when the budget cuts will scrap the overtime for the snow removal and will your trip to work so many mornings will be cut short by a six foot wall of snow crossing the road at the county line? how how does one plan for anything, when the government can't abide by the rules, is constantly changing the rules, throwing the countries revenue around half hazardly for the sake of their buddies? how can you plan, when the government is working so hard to screw everything up??
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• United States
7 Sep 09
The only thing we can plan for is the Government screwing us over.
@missybal (4490)
• United States
7 Sep 09
Amen!
@Koriana (302)
• United States
8 Sep 09
my point is....you can't plan for which way they plan on screwing you this time around, or any time..and well, there's no rhyme or reasoning behind the screwing... and well, every time they "help" one group, well, it does seem to screw another group out of something...either by taxation, unfair compeptition if one is talking about handouts to the business sector, inflation, whatever.
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• United States
8 Sep 09
which way they plan to screw us no, but we can put as much into savings as we can and store up what we can to weather through what ever it is they throw at us. I know this is easier said then done but what else can we do? I didn't vote for these people, and many folks just don't care to try to stop what is happening, those who do try are penalized, demonized and called (at the moment) racist.
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• United States
7 Sep 09
You can't, all you can do is stand up and try to fight it. I had not heard about the apple thing, that is totally funked up. I live in NY State and am surrounded by apple orchards, why in the hell would we need to import apples EVER? Can you tell me more about it so I know what exactly I need to scream at my local officials over? Our economy is not good here in my part of NY, I cannot fathom why some idiot would make it even WORSE by hurting our local agricultural industry to kiss the asss of some foreign entity! I agree with evrything else you wrote to, as the poster above me so aptly stated, the only thing we CAN plan for is the government screwing us over and it should NOT be this way, they're supposed to WORK FOR US!
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@Koriana (302)
• United States
8 Sep 09
the was probably close to a decade ago, or maybe longer. My husband usually switches from machinist to truck driver in these recessions, and he was driving truck at the time. was carrying a large shipment of apple concentrate to some big juice factory in upstate ny. we're both from upstate ny, so we know, there's plenty of fruit up there, or at least there was, for the factories. well, he made his delivery and he asked the guy at the place why on earth they were shipping this stuff in. the guy told him, the company was getting tax breaks, or credits or something as long as a portion of their product was produced overseas. I have no reason not to believe him on this but really have no further information. but, there's no way anyone could convince me that it's more economically advantageous for that company to have it shipped into them like that than it would be to just by the danged apples from the surrounding communities...without the tax credits or breaks, whatever it was! by the time we came down here, the big apple orchard that was at one time operating in my town was just about gone, land sold off, many of the apple trees left to tend to their own needs. all the spending we are doing now, well, our dollar is bound to drop in value sooner or later, and well...that apple concentrate more than likely ain't gonna be as cheap to import regardless of tax breaks and credits, and I seriously wonder if the orchards and vineyards up there now will be able to take that load back on.
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