Don't Blame Me

Every day I hear economic experts faulting us for causing the recession with our unbridled spending & credit cards. But business taught and nurtured us to ride on the backs of our spending.

At the same time, in an attempt to squeeze out the last few dollars, corporations cut too close to the quick. And now that ride is limping badly, business displaced too many jobs, forcing the economy into a wall. It seems our jobs were the fuel that makes our economy go. Imagine that?

Sounds like a dichotomy to me. I suppose we could have one hand signing for the credit card purchase while the other hand stays home instead of shopping. And how exactly would we do that?

Yes greed caused this recession, which incidentally started in 2004. But it was corporate greed, business that broke the economy. Now how how is it going to fix it?

Economic Predictions 2009: Past & Future

The Quantum Thinker's Economic Predictions: Past

1. Job loss source of deep recession, 1972.
2. Failure of Trickle-down Economics, 1981.
3. Failure of deregulation, 1982.
4. Need for internally computerized patient charts, 1983 (invented & implemented the first one).
5. Individually owned PC's, 1984.
6. Failure of corporate outsourcing, 1985.
7. Individual GPS, 1988.
8. Significant collapse of Fortune 500 companies, 1995.
9. Failure of No Child Left Behind Act, 2001.
10. Failure of Iraq War, 2003.
11. Anticipated major economic recession, 2004.
12. Predicted failure of a global economy, 2005.
13. Folly of Social Security outsourcing, 2007.
14. Failure of governmental outsourcing, 2008.

The Quantum Thinker's Economic Predictions: Future

1. Advantages of one-provider health care, 1970
2. Public education systemic problems, 1972.
3. Fundamental shift in upper education, 1988.
4. Dynamic corporate management vs. authoritarian, 1990.
5. Failure of Welfare-top-Work Program, 1995.
6. Remove cap on Social Security tax bracket, 2001.
7. Deficiencies in Ground-based mid-course defense (missile intercept), 2003.
8. Defect in electronic border system, 2006.
9. Fundamental flaw in computerized patient health records, 2007.
10. Housing bubble hoax, 2008.

NOTE: Fixes for Future Predictions Available.