Where Have All The Jobs Gone?

I believe in hard work, and treating my fellow human being as I would like to be treated.

I am somewhat concerened about the economic situation our country is now facing.

When I was a young teenager, we all could get a job, if we were willing to work. I worked hard, and was thankful to have the oppurtunity to have a job.

While in college, I felt that I was not going in the right direction, so, I stopped, and started a business. This busineess is very succesful to this day. I am very thankful for what I have achieved.

What I am trying to say.......This country was built on hard work, and innovation. We did not have to compete with SLAVE LABOR. If you do not think 1 dollar per day is slave labor.......then you are a self serving....egotistical......get all you can....while you can...............I'll let you fill in the rest...because you know deep down who, and what you are.

I am going to work my as- off today, tommorow, and when ever I have to. Just don't expect the United States of America to remain strong........when "OUR" politicians have sold us out.......and are still selling us out...so the FEW.......can reap their so called rewards.

I am not a democrat.......or republican. I am a citizen of the United States of America. Don't be blinded by politics.............Open your eyes......and your minds................Before it is too late.

Well maybe if "OUR" politicians passed laws that benifited the US of A.......like in the "GOOD OLD DAYS" This country would'nt have 10 per cent unemployment and a trade deficet up the wazoo.

Well let's just keep printing money....pay the Chinese...pray the Stock Market rises for those able to gamble on it........and everything will be alright .......WON'T IT?????

There's plenty of work to do. That's not the same as plenty of jobs but it COULD BE.

Ask anyone who's had a digital camera break and tried to find someone to fix it. Someone local. Someone who could do it for $75/hour or even more, so long as it didn't have to spend a month in the mail and sitting at the factory waiting to be fixed.

There is no shortage of work and no shortage of people willing to pay to have it done. What IS missing is training.

Many corporations have found ways to lock up the market for repairs for their products. It used to be if you owned something and it broke, you could find someone to fix it at a price mutually agreeable. Now, you frequently cannot find trained service at any price. If you need the thing, you can't wait for factory service, which is often outrageous.

There are millions of potential enterpreneurs in this country who could be earning good money, spending good money, and getting this economy out of its doldrums. But what is happening instead is that we're buying from overseas to get the cheapest price, because we know that when it breaks out of warranty we will just be replacing it.

So everybody loses--the companies that end up losing business to cheaper overseas competitors, who all make crap because that way you have to buy it again. People who can't get jobs. People who can't get their things fixed, especially locally.

This goes for everything reasonably high-tech. IMAGINE if plumbing stuff was updated every couple of years so that if something broke, you had to replace the whole thing because the new part wouldn't work with the old. Image if the plumbing materal manufacturers had a monopoly on repair of their products, and you couldn't hire a local plumber who knew how to fix your leaky toilet.

Think about it.

Well Dear Fred,

Did you ever consider those that have stopped going to the Unemployment Office and are no longer factored into the equation?

Oh, I am sorry, I am supposed to believe the "STATISTICS".

I quess I'll just turn off all common sense. and believe what "FEELS GOOD".

Have you ever walked through a ghost town? Try it sometime, it is not a very good feeling.

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