alosso:There's a brilliant employment rate in the US, so that should be no problem. I only wonder why Mar-A-Lago had to ask for temporary foreign workers?
Employment rates get counted in strange ways..............Many western countries are now fine if you are a well paid lawyer.
If you are trying to manufacture or buy a house as say a bus driver it's very hard. Growing up in London (UK) a bus driver could aspire to own their own home, now that dream is impossible for an ordinary teacher..............
The great depression was post industrial revolution, and this one is post globilisation. Somehow capitalism needs another correction, but I do not believe the answer is going left. One look at history tells me that is bad. (edit: we all accept some socialism as needed such as police, health etc but the degree that way is obviously the issue)
As for freedom of speech:
No matter how abhorrent I may find a view the right to express that view I believe must be upheld.
Flag waving is part of free speech.
The people waving the WW2 extreme right flags were a disgrace to all. They insulted their countrymen who died so they could do it, and they should hang their heads in shame.
Maybe they would if not so dumb they can't read a paper on history and what happened in that thing called WW2.
The extreme left are equally a bunch of nutjobs who seem to have no understanding of what they have or how much they have, and how much that cost.
Presumably their incapability of taking in news from more than a one line Twitter feeds precludes them from understanding N Korea might not be all they are told it is.
What should have happened is that the two groups never got to meet. There was the stuff up and that part was both predictable and easily actionable.
Taking down the statue(s) is almost a separate issue. It was voted on and no one has the righto use violence to go against that. IMO I would say think long and hard before taking too many more down. In my country, 1066 is a very famous date. Like it or loathe it William the Conqueror changed everything forever. The Vikings finally ruled even if called Normans by then...........Bomber Harris took down Hamburg and for why when it was against that far right party, but overall his statue commemorates a great cause even if the destruction of innocents is awful.
Point is how far does all this go?
America is a fantastic country with freedoms most still can only dream about. I would say celebrate where it is now, and let these things show how it got there. Polarising every very extreme inbred sheep for the next ten years won't help. For America to work through, but I have my view:)