Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
Coming from the US, I envy Europeans when it come to the relationship they usually have with their employers. Here each year seems to bring more demands placed on our time, increasing our work load, and limiting our input as to our work schedules.
Our health care system is excellent, but lacks sensible provisions for universal care (leaving a current 50 million US citizens without health coverage).
And most europeans seeems to have more available paid holiday time, where as in the US holiday time is difficult to obtain and often related to the length of your employment. And as to length of employment, there seems to be no trust between workers and employers anymore making a long term relationship with a single employer less likely.
It's getting ugly here, the financial sector has experienced some recovery, but our true unemployment rate hovers at close to 20%.
And the US population has a frightening number of gun owners. I keep hearing common everyday people repeatedly telling me that while they think things are bad, they fear they could get much worse.
If one day, you in europe see a massive melt down occuring in the US, I hope you'll tremember kinder days when we looked out for your interests, because I fear we may not survive this without assistence.
I don't post this to scare you guys, only to let you know that things aren't just bad in Greece and a few spots you've been worried about lately, they really are tough all over. And, as has been said, it might get a lot worse.
[ Edited by Jim on 2010/12/30 22:12 ]
[ Edited by Jim on 2010/12/30 22:12 ]
[ Edited by Jim on 2010/12/30 22:13 ]
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