Sunday, August 24, 2014

Why We Need a Hong Kong Here

Once upon a time in USA, there were stories like this...  people who had a passion, found joy in pursuing it, sure there were problems, but they were free to overcome.  Hong Kong and USA were started under the same laissez faire philosophy, but Hong Kong Stayed with it over the last 250 years.
“SARS almost dealt us a death blow, as we saw customers drop away and came under intense pricing pressure from procurement departments within hotels and restaurant groups,” said Mr White. “In 2004, a decision was made to offer the same quality products people enjoyed in Hong Kong’s premier restaurants as home-delivery products.” 
When I was out of high school, I could walk down a street, see a help-wanted sign, and be employed that day.  There were endless people building businesses, and the pay was nothing, but you could work your way up fast.

Today we do not have that, but we do have welfare, although no way to pay for it.  We have more people on welfare than working full time.  How will that work out?

Let's take the 2012 welfare total of 109,631,000 and add the 6 million Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the 17 million who get Obamacare subsidies and you have a minimum of 126 million receiving some sort of means-tested welfare vs. 118.5 million who "usually" work full time.

The reason I teach exporting food is I read these articles and see there is business to be done, and so few people know how to go get it.  Once upon a time, we new how to go get it.  Now we know how to get student loans, when once upon a time you could make enough in the summer to cover the school year expenses.

But we want a king to fight our battles for us.

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