Lack of jobs
If you spent the time you have spent complaining about and analyzing the job market in the US on learning some 21st century skills like social marketing or software development you would probably have a new lucrative career by now. But no, you'd much rather bitch about how Mexicans are taking our jobs and waa waa India, waa waa China, waa waa Phillipines. They moved your cheese, get over it, find new cheese already. For god's sake, it's never been easier to make a bit above minimum wage. If you own a car you can be an Uber/lyft/sidecar driver in in less than a week. You can do any of nearly 10,000 tasks for $5 on Fiverr and make a living. You can sell stuff on eBay, Amazon, Etc, etc...
So please, stop complaining about the job market and change your state in life. It may never be as good as your mortgage days, but you can earn a good living and have a roof over your head and food on your table if you are willing to, umm, you know, work.
Global warming
All your environmentalists make me sick. You think you're saving the planet with your Prius or Tesla or whatever and scoff at the likes of myself who drive a 20 mpg vehicle. Well, lets get one thing straight. If you even take a single commercial flight each year, your carbon footprint is increased by 10,000 times what you "saved" with your electic "car". The earth is not dying because everyone isn't as smug as you. The earth is dying because you don't understand the impact of the things you do. Blaming global warming on cars is like blaming your obesity on, ummm, Chicken. Yeah, sure, chicken has calories, and you can get fat from it, but you should look into that after you cut out pizza, doughnuts, ice cream, pasta, garlic toast, chili fries, and fried rice.
GMO products
Do you know where you would be without GMO products? Not alive. And I don't mean that you would have died by now. I mean that you would likely never have been born. The world's food supply depends largely on mass-farmed products. It has to because there is now just way too damned many of us, and we love to eat so goddamn much of everything at our favorite time, not only when they are in season. Well, guess what, melons, lettuce, apples, and tomatoes don't just grow all year long. So unless you wanna stop eating those things 6 months out of the year, I suggest you educate yourself about GMO foods and direct your opposition to the subset of them that hurt us rather than the 90% of them that help us survive. True, GMO foods are engineered for the wrong reasons and more commonly than we would like, but if you don't understand GMO, and just run your mouth about it ignorantly, all you are doing is hurting your own cause. High gas prices
This is my favorite one. At the time of this writing Current price of Petrol (Gas) in the UK is £1.34 (and higher) per litre. 1 US gallon = 3.78541178 litres so the true price of a gallon of gas in the UK in American dollars is about $10. That's more than twice what I paid at the pump today for 91 Octane ($4.10). In fact its 2.4x the price. And the UK is not even the highest prices. According to Bloomberg, UK is #13 on the list with Norway, Netherlands, and Italy rounding out the top 3. The US is actually number 51 of their list of 61 countries. With Venezuela paying only $0.04 per gallon of gas, followed by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait at $0.45 and $0.81 respectively. But get this through your head, if you are NOT okay with us getting involved with wars in the middle east and you don't want our troops to be all up in that bitch, then you CANNOT at the same time complain about high gas prices. So to recap, our gas prices are actually quite low compared to nearly every other civilized nation (Although we do spent a disproportionate amount of our income on gas at nearly 3%). And, you can't have it both ways, we're either the a'hole super power causing sh*t in the middle east to get our foothold on where the black gold is, or we end up paying as much as all other European countries.
China is stealing our products
This one sucks. I agree. But have you ever read Sun Tzu's Art of War? You really should. This is just textbook stuff to the Chinese. In a war, and the economic war is a war, every thing you do is fair. There is no honor in losing because you were fair. In fact, the sneakier you are, the higher the praise. So if you found a way to cheat and get your way against the enemy, then good for you. If you lost, because you didn't take advantage of obvious things like infringing on patents and copyrights, then you have dishonored your troops and country by being a bad general. Win at all costs. So knowing that mentality (and obvious cultural difference), you can sit there and whine and bitch about how China is stealing your junk, or you can develop better customer service, refine your product, and win the heart of your customer with good marketing. And With all the time you'll save not crying, maybe you can find a way to screw the Chinese out of a couple of bucks while you're at it.
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