And the Iceman and blacksmith jobs just disappeared. But guess what? New jobs came along - like the refrigerator repairman and the auto mechanic.
The world is changing and we have to change with it. We can't seal ourselves into a 1977 Tupperware bowl and keep the economy just as it was. With every change there are winners and losers.
Globalization is going to happen whether we like it or not, with or without George Bush. It's better to learn to use the changes to our advantage then to just sit and complain about them.
I could say, spoken like a true one-world global knothead, but I won't. You're probably right. To the detriment of America's future.
But my Dad was an iceman. He dropped out of school in 7th grade and bought a house a year later.
Got married, had 6 kids and bought a new (American, dammit) car every year. While Mom stayed home. All on an iceman's salary.
Now nobody can afford homes, cars or kids. I blame Bush. And those NAFTA refrigerators (with built in ice-maker, dammit) coming into the country on that NAFTA highway. Where is Jerome Corsi when we need him?