Wow. How come when I went through all this stuff two years ago, no one believed me?

I believe you because I saw this pattern starting about 20 years ago. The bottom line big and small business want to eliminate as many jobs as possible while maximizing their profits - either during a recession or prosperity.

The middle-income will be dramatically changed in 20 years. You will see more couples with no children at all because they simply cannot afford to have children.

I feel sorry for the lady in the article, a little. It's hard to find a job these days. But her husband's disability pay would go a lot farther if they moved to a place with a cheaper standard of living. She's definitely NOT poor. We live on approximately the same amount every month and after being unemployed and living on food stamps last year it seems a fortune. We pay our rent $400 a month, our insurance and electric and can buy our own food now. There's no reason you shouldn't apply for food assistance and/or unemployment compensation, you paid into the fund while you were working. So I send a little money to the Red Cross for Haitian relief? They have it a lot worse off than I ever did in my life.

It's one thing that individual people suffer. Sad, tragic, but more accepted.

The problem with Haiti, unlike every other major disaster including 9-11 and katrina is the the ENTIRE GOVERNMENT and major infrastructures were wiped out in one blow.

That's unprecedented in modern times. Usually if the govt is hit, it's "one building here" "some slight damage there", but Port'au prince is the entire epicenter for haiti government, financial institutions, and aid centers, and it's gone.

Obama is doing ALL THAT HE CAN to encourage the "wealthy" to take their jobs to other countries and close down businesses in the USA. Once he has completed his plan to increase the unemployment to over 20%, it will be easier for him to get his socialist plans passed.

The "wealthy" will always create jobs - they will always create jobs where it pays them to do so. In the USA today, they will be financially penalized for creating jobs, so they will not.