Posted on 01/01/2012 9:40:16 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
“Unlike Europe the US is blessed with oil, natural gas, coal and timber. If the politicians stop catering to environmentalists and tapped these resources for development and export. We can generate enough jobs and revenue to pay down our private and national debt.”
You are absolutely correct. Truck drivers in the North Dakota oil fields are getting $100k per year and companies can’t find enough of them.
Blaming the unions seems to me to be equivalent of the Left's irrational ranting that the Koch brothers are to blame for all the problems and then some.
There will be a 2011 report this month from BLS. Here's 2010.
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Highlights from the 2010 data:
--The union membership rate for public sector workers (36.2 percent) was substantially higher than the rate for private sector workers (6.9 percent). (See table 3.) [MOVE THE GOV'T JOBS TO RED CHINA INSTEAD! OK! We won't know the difference.]
--Workers in education, training, and library occupations had the highest unionization rate at 37.1 percent. (See table 3.)
--Black workers were more likely to be union members than were white, Asian, or Hispanic workers. (See table 1.)
--Among states, New York had the highest union membership rate (24.2 percent) and North Carolina had the lowest rate (3.2 percent). (See table 5.)
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Lot of corporate profits in Red China. That's the reason.
Mean time American corporations stay here and foreign corporations MOVE HERE. How come they can make it? They have real managers perhaps? They know how to manage.
The only reason corporations give away their technology, know how, and intellectual property to our enemy Red China is for immediate benefits for the decision makers.
But when Deng's version of Lenin's New Economic Plan (NEP) ends and ALL the assets of foreign corporations are seized, the Western useful idiots kicked out with NOTHING! Don't go begging Congress for your TARP -- you ain't going to get it!
Many were saying that Gore won that debate against Perot. I doubt they still think so now.
Plenty of jobs in China.
I have long believed that his running for president was entirely to secure the Hillarykare contract -- one sixth of the U.S. economy.
And although I get it about Perot not liking the Bushes, I still think he wanted to win in 1992.
Our economy was booming during the Reagan years. I was making tons of money when he was president. Those were the best times our country had since the Coolidge era.
But in what field were you making this money?
In a country with no manufacturing the importer of foreign-made goods usually makes tons of money!Also doctors,lawyers,and government officials do well in such countries;it is the middle clas that disappears.
We don’t make the clothes,lightbulbs,computers,toasters,nor a huge percentage of the cars,trucks,furniture,and now even the books are being printed in China!And then there is the importationn of Arab oil....
Are we to repeat the colonial era Indians’ mistake of selling their land to pay off the debt from imported manufactured goods?
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