Have any of you people realised *why* the economy is tanking?You're perfectly happy to throw the blame around at this politician and that, but you don't stop to think about the reasons for a second.- Corporations have been "offshoring", i.e. moving all the labour intensive jobs to countries where people work for peanuts. Americans can't compete with that and therefore jobs disappear- Corporations have been moving safe jobs to "perma-temp" and contracting, where people are generally paid less and have less benefits- Large banks and mutual funds have waved their hands to create great deals of money for themselves through "leveraging" (how i hate that word). The money had to be laundered into the real world somewhere, and that place was in house sales. The bubble has burst.- Worker protections and minimum wages have been lessened. If 3 people on 40hr weeks turn into 2 people on 60hr weeks, that means one of them is now unemployed. Think about that when you're doing your unpaid overtime.- Vast amounts of money have been spent on a pointless war, corruption with corporate lobbyists writing the law and private companies bidding for govt contracts with *no* competition are sucking tax revenues, and foreign loans, dry. I mean, what about that scandal where a billion dollars in unmarked notes was sent to Iraq and noone knows what happened to it? Extreme corruption.Can anyone deny these things have been happening? Well now you know who to blame for the economy being *****. There is a war on the middle class and poor by corporations.