Scarry picture . No whiteness to it all ! <| sep |> Yell FIRE in a crowded building . Alternatively , I really like rListen 2 This to girls who sing to themselves quietly . I don ' t care how bad you are , I find it incredibly relaxing . <| sep |> I have yet to bother building canals . They ' re huge money sinks , you don ' t get much money from them which you should , you can ' t exactly control who passes through it , you also usually get an event that costs mana or extends the build time . Canals are just a complete waste . <| sep |> First , Im not your friend buddy . Also sorry meant could . <| sep |> It went unrecorded by history but the real reason it was banned originally <| sep |> Northern European economies are doing pretty well ? ? This was where I was going with my earlier reference . Europe was greatly diminished economically and militarily by the loss of their manufacturing capacity during WWII . It ' s taken them decades to regain what was lost on the economic front and they have never regained the military strength they once had . Willful abandonment of manufacturing capacity by the U . S . will produce the same outcome . Kids are pursuing graduate degrees and staying in college longer solely because economic opportunities do not exist for them to join the private sector . You have it backwards . that LFPR factor is caused by the same labor market ills that are afflicting the rest of the workforce . Bear in mind , the cost of higher education is a disincentive to pursue higher education degrees , NOT an incentive . I haven ' t forgotten the recession at all . The labor market hasn ' t truly recovered since the dot com bust as far as I ' m concerned because most of Dubya ' s job creation record was in the public sector i . e . , his war profiteering misadventures not the private sector . President Obama claims to have restored employment levels to what they were on Dubya ' s watch , but he often glosses over the fact that the quality of the jobs that replaced the ones lost are a substandard replacement . In essence , Obama put us back where Dubya left us before the Financial Crisis blew and that was in the labor market hole that Dubya never filled on his watch . So , our labor market still hasn ' t regained its 1999 strength . It ' s why I don ' t lend labor market recovery claims the credit others do . Be careful about relying too much on unemployment stats as a benchmark for labor market health . The problem with unemployment stats is that they only count the number of jobs , gloss over the differences in job quality involved and miss deteriorating labor market conditions as a result .