When entering text into the "About me" and "I'm looking for" portions of my profile, I cannot seem to get it to create paragraphs. Instead, all my text runs together.
The profile edit page seem like a typical web text box, and I haven't run into this on other web sites.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem? From viewing other profiles it's obviously do-able.
(Even more strange: in the forum here things seem to work normally/fine.)
I disagree Ross; that 8% number is cooked -- it's propaganda.
Those on the far left have been complaining about the gov't manipulating inflation, unemployment and other stats for many years. Now some on the right complain about the same thing.
For example, famous Republican strategist Kevin Phillips (credited with coming up with Nixon's "southern strategy") has written extensively on how both Republican and Democratic administrations have cooked gov't statistics.
Some economists have recalculated various economic statistics using the older, pre-cooked math algorithms with current raw gov't data. You can find a lot of interesting information on
Statistics do not support that. Weak unions equals weak wages and a lower standard of living. That isn't what the Wall Street Journal or the TV tells you, but that is the fact.
1973 was the year that purchasing power for the average American worker peaked. Purchasing power can be roughly seen as overall "standard of living".
If you look at the rates of unionization in the US, unionization has been in decline for decades. And what do you know, so has US wages and standard of living. (Americans in their 30s will have a worse standard of living than their parents -- a first in US history.)
The truism that weak unions equals weak wages can also be seen by comparing the US to other advanced industrial democracies.
If you honestly compare the US to much of Western Europe, you'll find higher levels of unionization in Western Europe and in quite a few countries there higher standards of living compared to the US ("standards of living" is a difficult thing to compare, but lets face it, most workers in France or Germany work 35 hour workweeks and have 1 month-or more of vacations per year; in contrast, US workers now work longer hours than even the Japanese).
I can answer that with a story. Back in 1988 I was going to college and was working with a state legislator as an intern/assistant. We did research on the US minimum wage.
Back in 1950 the US minimum wage was something like (since it's been so long, I can't quote the exact numbers, so I'll give accurate-but-non-exact numbers) $0.50 an hour. But measured another way, 2 people working at minimum wage jobs could earn more than 90% of the US median household income. In other words, a husband and wife could almost earn the median (roughly equates to "average") household income for a family. That family of 2 minimum wage earners were not rich, but they were living well out of poverty.
When we were doing the research, we used the latest available gov't data. At that time, 2 people working at minimum wage jobs earned approximately 50% of the US median household income. In other words, a family of 4 with 2 minimum wage workers were living in poverty.
Over the years, the US minimum wage has been eaten away by inflation. In many areas of my state, New Hampshire, you cannot get teenagers to work at the official minimum wage. In reality, the minimum wage has been de facto repealed.
The gap between the rich and poor in the US is the widest right now than at any time in modern recorded history.
Is it any wonder that some people do not want to work? The gov't has undermined the reward for working and contributed to the decline of the entire work ethic.
I'm not sure if you were joking about that, but it's already done.
Much like the Roman Empire in ancient times, a smooth path to citizenship is serving in the imperial military. There are thousands in the US military who seek US citizenship in that manner. Most are from US pseudo-colonies and/or Latin America.
If undocumented workers are a problem, the solution is easy.
The undocumented workers are being employed by someone. That employer is getting over big-time and we are all paying for the employer dodging payroll and other taxes.
The solution is easy -- prosecute the employer. If there are no jobs for undocumented workers, then they will not come to the US and most will return to their own country.
You can guarantee that if the wages on the jobs that "Americans do not want" rise high enough, someone will take the job -- that's how markets work.
The "problem" is that corporations largely run the US gov't. Thus, employers who benefit from this system rig enforcement and are not prosecuted. In large ICE (INS) raids, the corporate employers are given advance warning. The corporations get off and the "mobile serfs" who only want to earn an honest buck are the ones that ICE throw in jail.
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Paragraphs in profiles?
Thanks all; problem solved.It had something to do with the end-of-line sequences.
To solve the problem I did this:
* Pressed ENTER at the end of each line where it wrapped. I also added an extra ENTER where I wanted paragraphs.
* I then went through the entire profile again pressing Backspace to rejoin all of the lines again.
I don't know the exact problem, but that fixed it.