Posted on 04/02/2016 6:19:20 AM PDT by central_va
Over the past twenty to thirty years, the United States has lost a massive number of lower and middle class value-added jobs. These are largely the manufacturing jobs that allowed the United States to support its own needs and export goods, which builds real wealth. As unemployment has taken its toll on the United States, politicians continue to echo the sentiment that education is the answer to the economic crisis. The question is: how will the well-educated ever provide for themselves when all the means to create wealth are flowing out of the country?
However, many major economists predict that job losses should be expected to continue across ALL levels of society if action is not taken. This is where we must ask if education alone can truly be the answer. Due to their successful policies, developing nations are amassing enough human capital to lure engineers and chemists to their shores. Those who study for years in the U.S. to find a skilled position are seeing their employment possibilities follow those of manufacturing: the jobs are moving overseas.
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Poor educational system, cultural distraction, loss of collective morality and sense of nationhood
For those who haven’t read it, “Coming Apart” by Charles Murray is an excellent look at why the deterioration of America’s manufacturing and the disproportionate emphasis on “education” (vs. actual skills) is hollowing out all of American society.
The enemedia is to bored to actually talk about the things important in fly over country.
“Politicians need to reexamine their national priorities and enact policies to keep jobs in the United States”
Mark Twain said, we have the best government money can buy. When he said it the money came from sources inside the United States, thus the cronyism and the money stayed local. Now foreigners come in and bribe politicians and the contracts and laws are written so that they and their country benefit. We have exported our cronyism.
The last thing a politician thinks about is what is good for the country. Ask not what you can do for the country, ask what people will pay you to do for them.
>>Poor educational system, cultural distraction, loss of collective morality and sense of nationhood<<
...and the left hand not aware of the what the right hand is doing.
Government officials filling their coin purses with campaign donations from foreign interest, corporate lobbyist in exchange for supporting policy that allows for the greatest transfer of wealth in all of world history....from America to China. Treasonous.
Being "good" is hard. It's personal. It's humbling. And it requires a belief in our own fallibility and our own weakness. And in the America of the 21st century, after decades of humanist claptrap and self-indulgence have permeated our values, we're no longer willing to subjugate ourselves to a higher power that can lift us out of our own degradation.
So we fall back on trite, ineffective sloganeering and empty figureheads, demanding that they make us good people again. And we hand over our freedoms and our liberties to a government that has repeatedly proven incapable of governing well.
Bottom line? We're afraid to do the hard work of being good people.
Effect: Over the past twenty to thirty years, the United States has lost a massive number of lower and middle class value-added jobs.
Cause: High taxes greedy power hungry unions
So we close manufacturing down and tell everyone to retrain as software and IT professionals. Great. Then we flood the us labor market with software and IT people from all over the world. What is surprising is that the shooting hasn't started already...
That pretty well sums it up I'm afraid.
That is not true because 90% of the jobs lost were non union. So you are only 10% correct. F- grade for you. Here's some advice: go the the BLS web site and do some research for posting or just not post made up BS. Your choice.
What are the issues that really matter?
I don't know about you, but I've got bread AND circuses. Squirrel! /s
Entire post is spot on.
Afraid? Some. Too lazy? Most.
Listen to Trump because he explains it in great detail. He is running on those issues. The war isn't left - right or conservative - liberal. The real war is globalism vs. pro Americanism.
Trump is.
Why? 96% of Americans are public “educated”.
Now, give me a toughie!
Agree
It doesn’t help that talk radio has been beating the drum for the Cheap Labor Express for 25 years.
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