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No one has figured out a foolproof way to make workers hurt by globalization whole again.

I always understood that the onus was on the individual to adapt or get left behind. You are not supposed to get a free ride if you can't keep up. It's understood for the aged and the infirm that you would get some help, but not be made "whole". There would be no reason to strive to adapt if you got a full share if you didn't carry a full share of the production.

5 posted on 05/20/2016 7:31:02 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The republican party is the voters, not the politicians.)
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To: oldbrowser
I always understood that the onus was on the individual to adapt or get left behind.

How can they, when a machinist, et al, is put out of work, not by technology, but by the job suddenly going elsewhere? Tell some factory worker in his 40s or 50s he has to "adapt" by taking on a low-skill/paid service job.

6 posted on 05/20/2016 7:37:52 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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For me, the issue is they insult your intelligence by telling us twenty years ago that NAFTA would keep illegals at home in Mexico because they’ll build factories there to give them jobs - when they knew very well they’d continue to encourage illegal immigration to pad the Democratic voter rolls with gimme policies with money taken from MY pockets.


7 posted on 05/20/2016 7:42:14 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money."- Trump)
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