Here is something that a lot don't foresee, regarding housing and employment. It is not something I have come up with; it has been talked about for quite a while in social and finance circles.
The day is coming when socialism even in this country in some form is going to happen.
Before I go on, so everyone knows where I stand, I don't think it is as bad as a lot of us, myself included, were led to believe. A mix of it and our current system.
I was a business owner for almost 3 decades, employing about 15 to 20 people most of that time. I like our system. People should be held accountable too. If they can genuinely work, and they just want to make a million excuses why they can't, I am not sympathetic to them. Of course there really re people who are so physically and/or mentally and spiritually screwed up that they are just unemployable.
How to separate the phonies, from the legitimate, well that is another discussion, and probably beyond me anyway.
But back to my main point; folks, the day is coming, and maybe sooner then we all realize. To many jobs are going overseas. We are living in a world economy. Computers are taking a lot of jobs. These trends will just continue to accelerate. There is no stopping them. There are only so many service jobs, and only so much natural resources. You can't make more natural resources just because more people need jobs. You can't tell companies to use three humans when one computer can do it. With more people competing for less jobs, something has to give.
This may sound far fetched, but I strongly believe that one day, right here in America, the government will have a furlough work system for a segment of the population. They will pay people for long periods of time to not work. Or who can't find jobs. And I am not talking like what is currently the situation, like 6 months or a year unemployment payments. More like 5, 10, years, maybe even longer. They will encourage them to not even look for jobs. They are going to weigh the pros and cons, and realize it is more beneficial to just keep them on a modified welfare system, or a form of socialism then have them starving, or rioting, from robbing, and just causing general unrest.
Like it or not, this is going to happen in some form. This thing in Utah is just the start. So is the Obama care. One day Obama care will seem like it was American as apple pie compared to what will come.
The political party that is ahead of this curve will control the government.