Switzerland is a small country whose sole purpose for existing has been to provide the world with banking service for, what, seven centuries now?
I should have been a little more precise with my statement. What we increasingly lack is a way for individuals on the bottom to use to work their way up through the social ladder. Basic industrial business has provided that to us since the demise of the agriculture economy. While I'm obviously not an economist, it seems unfortunate to me that Wal Mart is such a person's only means of climbing the ladder--in other words, it's no ladder at all.
most of what you say is true but you wont preserve middle clas jobs or economic upward mobility by protecting industrial jobs.
remember what I said, manufacturing jobs are being destroyed by productivity. How do you propose we stop the decline of manufacturing employment due to productivity? Should we? of course not because we would be destroying economic upward mobility if we did that
Tell that to Kevin Turner, the new COO of Microsoft, who started as a part-time hourly at Wal-Mart.