The economy is lethargic because companies are sitting on piles of cash and prefer to simply work those they have already hired harder, rather than hiring more people. Innovation is being used to increase productivity, and the gains are NOT being passed on to those actually making the products and performing the services.
Clearly when it comes to private sector business understanding you are a retard. Businesses want to make the most money they can and they react and act to the economic atmosphere that exists. Their actions are what they should be for the economic trends in this country and world right now.
Typically people like you that have never had to produce anything can't grasp or understand sound economic logic. It's Greek to you! It isn't your fault that you are ill-equipped and lack experience required to know about Capitalism but liberals like you have brain damage and don't know what it means to roll up your sleeves and hit it hard.
Go open up a lemonade stand and learn a few things about running a business for profit. You know, a business that does not get donations or government assistance. A business that has to make it on it's own merit without government help. Try it and when you open up that lemonade stand and the city comes down on you for permits, licenses, etc. and when the state tells you to get a sales tax number and the feds tell you to get a federal tax ID then you might learn about red tape and all the bullshit that businesses have to jump through. Being a Spanish teacher isn't real world exposure and certainly if we all did what you do then the world would collapse. The only good you do is teach people how to communicate with their gardener! I can do that with my finger.
Kids Lemonade Stand At U.S. Open Fined $500 And Shut Down By Montgomery CountyBETHESDA, Md (WUSA) You can make a
fortune selling parking spots outside the US
Open, but don't even dream of setting up a
lemonade stand.
A county inspector ordered the Marriott
and Augustine kids to shut down the stand
they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd, right
next to Congressional. And after they
allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the
inspector fined their parents $500.
"This gentleman from the county is now
telling us because we don't have a vendors
license, the kids won't be allowed to sell
their lemonade," Carrie Marriott told us,
her voice trembling.
The kids can't seem to understand it. "I
don't agree, I think the county is
wrong." "We're sending the money to
charity."
Jennifer Hughes, the director of permitting
for the county, says it's technically illegal to
run even the smallest lemonade stand in
the county, but inspectors usually don't go
looking for them. She said this one was
unusually large. Hughes also says they've
warned all kinds of other vendors they
couldn't operate near the US Open because
of concerns about traffic and safety.
But that did little to console Carrie Marriott.
"Does every kid who sells lemonade now
have to register with the county?" she asked
the inspector.
"Cute little kids making five or ten dollars
is a little bit different than making
hundreds. You've got coolers and coolers
here," the inspector responded. "To raise
money for pediatric cancer," Marriott
replied.
What's funny is that the county has given
scores of other neighbors permits to let
golf fans park on their front lawns. The
permits cost almost $300, but prices per
car run as much as $60 a day. And some
neighbors are reportedly raking in tens of
thousands of dollars.
"I'm a little upset with the rip off that's
going on," said Ron Simpson, who was
getting ready to pay $50. One cop says a
neighbor told him he'd made enough
charging for parking at big golf events at
Congressional that it had paid one of his
kid's collegetuition.
Carrie Marriott is having a hard time
reconciling the two different perspectives
on entrepreneurship at the US Open. "The
message to kids is, there's no American
dream."
http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/155167/158/County-Shuts-Down-Kids-Lemonade-Stand-500-Fine