First off, factor for age and you will see the "Class war" numbers as the manipulative garbage that they really are. People who are about to retire have built up massive wealth and have very high incomes while people who are starting out in their career have neither.

Beyond that, there is a very strong correlation between stronger union influence in a region and higher unemployment. If you look at automobile manufacturers you can see the reason for this being that all three unionized American automobile manufacturers were slowly being pushed out of business by their non-unionized competition; and if it wasn't for government interference there would only be 1 American automobile manufacturer left.

Well, it's been a few months since I posted. I took a trip to New Zealand looking for a new home. I found it just north of Wellington, along the cost.

45 minute electric train ride into town and on an amazing beach, not bad at all.

Anyway, for those that know me (or don't know me), the reason I am leaving the US, is it's broken and can't be fixed. I am a problem solver at heart. I worked in a think tank for the US military for 7 years, with the sole purpose of solving technical problems that the rest of the organization I worked for could not. So it's just something I naturally do.

About 3 years ago I started looking into the problem of the US decline. Trying to figure it out. I finally did. The real problem with America, is the mindset of the it's people. I asked this simple question on many forums, including this one:

If you could rate human quality of life on a scale of 1 to 100. 1 being the worst, and 100 being the best, would you rather live in a world where the best was 100, and the worst was 60, or the best was 45 and the worst was 40?

Shockingly, more people picked the second option. People care less about there absolute position in life, and care more about there relative postion compared to everyone else. This then justifies the redistribution of wealth, and the root of our problems. The wrong people are not in office. They are the people a majority want ruling, and are doing what a majority of the people want them to do.

All the polls showing unhappiness are more upset that these philosophies are not working. No one is upset that we steal from the rich. They are just upset with the results of such actions. When you steal from the rich, everyone losses. What's happening is exactly what I have predicted will happen (along with every other economic conservative). Next year, we are going to start stealing a lot more from the rich, and thus the consequences we see from those actions will continue to grow. We are heading into a deeper depression, and our leaders are sending us there. They are sending us there by doing what a majority of the voters want them to do. We are moving more from the first option of my question, to the second. We are doing so, because we are getting exactly what we as a people think we want.

To fix the problem of a failing US government, you first have to fix the mindset of the people electing our leaders. Sadly, this takes at least a generation of time to do, and I don't wish to wait that long. Plus, I don't think the US will survive that long, at least not as the US I grew up in. 

So, time for me to leave. New Zealand was everything I imagined and more. We are on a plan to move in the summer of 2011. First and formost, is we have to sell our house. Not the best time to be selling it, but we will do what we can.

Take care everyone :)

US Corporatism and endless  profits. High educated families are the rich class and they own and control everything in America. The age thing is a myth. Rich kids can becomes CEOs at age 18 due to nepotism. My daddy runs big company, junior becomes CEO. 

The poor people are left to work in factories as slaves and paid $3 per hour. No minimum wage in America. Corporations will pay workers low or no wages if they can get away with it. Lower wages = Higher corporate profits. Send all jobs to China where workers are paid $1 per hour = bigger profit margins. 

The Republicans who are from rich families love to sell the hard work and God philosophy to keep people in line. Only rich people make it in America.  Homeless or earning below the poverty line accounts for 20% of the whole US population = 50 million. 

Unions protect workers that is proven fact and they ensure the workers have jobs. The union workers are better off and there are more jobs. Weak Unions in the US. Workers have little or no rights. American Corporations exploit workers: low wages = higher profits. Foreign workers are brought in paid lower wages and take away local workers jobs. 

http://www.justsharethis.com/top-10-most-powerful-young-ceos-in-america/

10 under 40 :P

And there are also founders who are under 45 that aren't CEO's however they FOUNDED the company, the two co-founders of google come to mind, also the four from facebook, the three from twitter...

Pretty much any semi-successful 'internet' type startup you will find these younger people as CEO's/owners, etc

About 3 years ago I started looking into the problem of the US decline. Trying to figure it out. I finally did. The real problem with America, is the mindset of the it's people. I asked this simple question on many forums, including this one:

If you could rate human quality of life on a scale of 1 to 100. 1 being the worst, and 100 being the best, would you rather live in a world where the best was 100, and the worst was 60, or the best was 45 and the worst was 40?

Shockingly, more people picked the second option.

Take care everyone :)

#1 to do a poll on the US you ask internet forums, including a UK based forum with a very wide international population.... ermm ok

#2 Either that is not the exact question you asked or there was some reason for which people made a joke answer or people are just plain stupid (this is the internet after all).... it's morronic to choose B when the best of B is lower than the worst of A... well not morronic, worse, retarded.

#3 you leave in one year and you already say goodbye? isn't that a bit premature (especially since there are plenty of ausies and NZies on the site...

#4 i'd try the NZ adventure too...if I didn't have familly and career perspectives that I value a lot... maybe for retirement? :p

Oh, and Google is awesome, youngest CEO in the world at 14.. though this was a few years ago, maybe there is a younger one now...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhas_Gopinath