We ALL are.
But you see - we aren't.
Now our little town of 3,000 lost a sewing factory to Mexico. Just 100 jobs - no big deal, right? But that little sewing factory allowed people to remain in this small town - where the worst thing the city council discussed last week kids wrapping a teacher's house with toilet paper. This is the place y ou raise children in a safe environment. Yes, those people got 2 years unemployment - it is probably just about running out. And I said, to this lady - 'But they will train you for whatever you want.' 'Yes, but train me to do what in this town.' Healthcare is the only field for employment here, and that is because of the elderly, and it can't absorb that many jobs.
Yes, you have to make choices - all these families can move into the big cities. They children can learn all the ways of the big cities. Keep in mind these average people won't be doing dot.com work (even if there was any dot.com work left) and won't be living in gated communities. Now tell me these are benefitting from this?
This did not happen as a natural occurance of the changing business patterns. That's one thing and we all have to adjust when that happens. This came about because our government decided it would get involved in free enterprise and make business work in an unatural way.