Why are we here and what can we do?

We came from a business world many years back before I was born where people would work in a land where people would trust each other, help one another, and make sure not to leave any of their people behind. Where all can prosper together and love everything life brings forth and not worry about what life's troubles bring you tomorrow but instead looking forward to the opportunities life will allow you to seize tomorrow.

Is this America today? I think we all know the answer to that. In America we have businesses that want to be very competitive to take one another out. Businesses that want to get bigger by buying other competitors out. Those businesses then promising employees the world. Employees hoping for better pay for their hard labor. Those employees waking up everyday saying I will do whatever it takes to make sure my company comes out ahead.

As the months go by and the years go by, those same employees pouring their blood out for this company start to wonder and ask themselves "Why am I doing this?". And they answer "For the paycheck that helps pay my bills so I can keep living and working.". The problem with that is after the paycheck not much money is left over to put away to save for a rainy day or an emergency. And most people ask "How did I get here?" and "What can I do to make things better?".

Employees say they have been lied to with believing that their employers would give them more as long as they did more to help the company only to find out later that no matter how much they did, they were recognized with praise and empty promises of hope and extra compensation. As these companies got larger, the quality of products and services got poorer because businesses wanted to cut corners on costs, and those costs included the dispensable employee.

That employee who is nothing but a number that can be replaced by a younger work force that does not know what they are in for because they have been blinded by the truth of all that their careers can be. Those same employees know they can do more and can always work hard to bring a company to life, but without a vision and without compensation for a better way they begin to lose hope as prices for everything they wanted to work for keeps going higher to a point where there is no incentive to work harder anymore because these employees have been lied to, and they believe that prices have reached a very unreasonable level that in their minds is truly unattainable.

With little pay and lots of hard work people begin to believe that they will cut out spending. It is unbelievable to believe that in America 70% of the consumer is what drives the american economy. That is pretty sad. It is also very believable that people do not want to spend because they are not compensated for their hard work. That makes a lot of sense.

Employees were misled to believe, with all the profits these companies were making, that they would get a share. They did not get much if anything at all. Employees were lied to for many years that if they did get a raise, that raise would be in line with inflation. The problem with that was the inflation rate they wanted to peg it to was 3%. The inflation rate was and still has been much higher than 3%. These rates would be at times double to quadruple that 3% rate. If you do not believe this, just go to shadowstats.com. This is a very reliable source that will lead you to believe why the employee's standard of living is diminshing.

And we have a culture where the top executives will get all the rewards because they had something to do with leading these employees in the right direction. The problem with that is a lot of these employees are going above and beyond their work hours to demonstrate their abilities and most likely have a lot to do with the profitability of the company never being noticed. Ande while their top executives get all the credit, these employees can not believe they get little or nothing for their efforts sacrificing everything they could be doing outside their work life.

That on top of bureacracy and what they consider top talent. I bet these big ego leaders would be surprised how smart the hard working americans are. That if given the opportunity, there is a strong likelihood the hard working american who did not go to the big name school or is not in the high network of who knows who but simply has a lot of experience would outperform due to his own hard work ethic. Have the top executives ever thought about that? Probably, and my guess is the top executives are scared to lose their status to ever allow this. Lets get back to where these morons have gotten us to.

As fast profits continued to be made from mass production the quality deteriorated. The result is businesses got greedy, they wanted to spend less, consumers (those being the employees) had less money to work so they spent less after being indebted to their eyeballs on standard of living prices that are unreachable making the modern day employee fell like in order to live I have to live as a slave. They say in their minds, I work more, spend even more and save less if nothing.

Our country is living with more debt because powerful people don't want to share the success of profits that every hard worker in our country contributed to. The result has been nothing but a reality of people who have lost hope and trust. And our government wants to spend our way out of this mess. To me that means more added pressure to higher prices and higher taxes. Of course you will not see this in the short term, but it will happen. What can we do? All you can do is ask for more pay. And I believe the likelihood of that action actually making a dent into the problem for every hard working american is nothing but a dream. Why? Simple. Greed.