Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Comfort is no longer enough
Great clip explaining why we work more and not less like it was once predicted:
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I think she misses one aspect here. It would have done her well to look at employed citizens versus unemployed citizens and those on welfare.
ReplyDeleteIs there a correlation between the number of people on welfare versus the number of working Americans paying into the system?
Also should have looked at savings rate versus debt. How overextended are people in reaching for those McMansions?