[mimaw]

That may be true in some areas but when these trade deals starting going through and the younger among you didn’t see the writing on the wall and prepare for the 21st. century whose fault was that? My town for generations was a big union town, no other business wanted to even venture into our area as it was impossible to compete with jobs that paid $ 17.00 an hour to put a nut on a bolt or sweep a floor and that was 15 yrs. ago. We have lost our dominance of the auto industry because of our inability to price and design our products competitively. If you want to blame someone or something for the demise of manufacturing jobs in America you don’t have to look much farther that the labor unions. Since the company in our town pretty much pulled out we don’t have too many $17.00 an hour floor sweeping jobs but lots of smaller industries have moved here and frankly the quality of life in this town has greatly improved.

[brownsfan]

“That may be true in some areas but when these trade deals starting going through and the younger among you didn’t see the writing on the wall and prepare for the 21st. century whose fault was that?”

Oh, you mean all those programmers and engineers who went to school for at least 4 years and now can’t find a job because of H1Bs and offshoring? Yep, those people are morons.