{"id":3343,"date":"2011-05-10T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/stocks-continue-to-climb.html"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T11:50:00","slug":"stocks-continue-to-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/05\/stocks-continue-to-climb.html","title":{"rendered":"Stocks continue to climb!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As unemployment and inflation continue to devour the American consumer.\u00a0 How is this possible?\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m no economist.\u00a0 By my guess has been for some time that, for all those decades companies begged us to \u2018Buy American\u2019, Americans forgot to ask those companies to \u2018Stay American.\u2019\u00a0 With shipping jobs overseas for slave wages, in addition to the exploding markets in places like India and China who, combined, have a potential market in excess of 6 times that of the United States, most companies no longer need the American worker to work in order to rake in the big bucks.\u00a0 In fact, sometimes if wages are low or benefits are being cut, it might be just the thing to help the average Wall Street investor\u00a0line his or her pockets with the misfortune of the Main Street American.\u00a0 This article<\/a> on The Lookout<\/em>, not the best source I admit, seems to quote some folks who at least somewhat agree.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see.\u00a0 But it\u2019s nice to know that, while most Americans are struggling with gas prices, grocery prices, unemployment, and diminishing benefits, our Wall Street execs are bringing in unprecedented profits for themselves.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As unemployment and inflation continue to devour the American consumer.\u00a0 How is this possible?\u00a0 Well, I\u2019m no economist.\u00a0 By my guess has been for some time that, for all those decades companies begged us to \u2018Buy American\u2019, Americans forgot to ask those companies to \u2018Stay American.\u2019\u00a0 With shipping jobs overseas for slave wages, in addition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nStocks continue to climb!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As unemployment and inflation continue to devour the American consumer.  How is this possible?  Well, I'm no economist.  By my guess has\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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