Our economy was better when we exported rather than imported.
That’s the way it is, was, and ever shall be. An exporting economy means jobs and a higher standard of living. Only the rich praise the non-existent advantages of an importing economy.
The problem is that we cannot all be IT workers.
That aside, Trump is addressing an important issue and we need to be more realistic about it. We are in a global labor market whether we like it or not. And in a lot of ways we are (or have been) better off because of it because of cheaper consumer goods. The flip side is not pretty BUT there is always a flip side to everything.
We are always going to have lower skilled workers. The utopia that both the right and left push of an educated workforce virtually ALL working high skilled, higher paid jobs (relative to the rest of the world) is just not realistic.
For one thing, there are smart talented motivated people everywhere on the planet. A certain percentage of them will make/take up the high skill jobs whether they live in the USA or not.
And we also have to face up to the fact that we are only like 5% of the world’s population. So, even if 1% of the rest of the world’s 7 billion population are educated, skilled, talented and motivated ... that 700 million people who are serious competition for the same type of people in our country. Even if 50% of our population is highly educated, skilled, talented etc, the numbers are not on our side.
Unless we close up shop and become isolationist like N. Korea.
I get a kick out of all the Trumpeteers who dismiss Trump for statements made directly by their guy and not disputed by him.
But something a candidate (not theirs) did 20 years ago is absolutely a fact and can’t be changed. I’ve never seen such hypocrisy.
Need lots of people to stock those shelves and to train those foreigners in our technology and know-how to make the products.
I read an article earlier this year (in the Atlantic? Or Politico perhaps? I can’t remember where) written by a man who wrote blog posts for Trump U, after he read Trump’s books and watched several interviews with him to get a feel for his style. The posts weren’t really written by Trump himself. For a while, Trump didn’t even have anything to do with them, according to this man. However, after the writer unknowingly criticized one of Trump’s businessman friends in a post, Trump began reading and approving the posts behorehand. I wonder if Trump actually had anything to do with this particular post.
“If outsourcing is okay, why it Trump telling his supporters that it is bad? “
Cmon — he wrote this like two years ago, you can’t hold him to that!!
Unemployment Rate - about 4.8% in 2006
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
Labor Force Penetration (about 77 million not in the work force in 2006 about 93 million now)
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000