[RLK]

The majority of the blue collar workers were 50 or just not college material. For the most part they were NEVER going to move into technical jobs .There was no place for them to go. They WERE the middle class, making enough to have a house and a picket fence and send the kids to college.

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And in being paid enough to do this they furnished an important market in a market based economy which sustained that economy. Without them the economy will collapse.

[RnMomof7]

And in being paid enough to do this they furnished an important market in a market based economy which sustained that economy. Without them the economy will collapse.

This has been a mystery to me. I have only one college course on economics. But from the beginning of the mass export of American jobs I wondered who would be the tax base.Who will pay for the schools? (teachers look for massive layoffs and salary cuts ..face to face service jobs are the next on the list) Who will pay the for the bloated federal socialist government ? I wondered who would buy cars, insurance, homes , appliances What will happen to the longshore men and sales men and truckers?.

For every factory job, (and now tech jobs) the "service" jobs of other Americans are at risk of being lost. Who will need the maid to make up the bed at "Motel 8", when no one has the money to travel?

Who will tip the waitress at that wonderful Italian restaurant if no one can afford to eat out?

America built an interdependent middle class we all need each other.For a time some of the more educated among us thought they were above "market forces"

Welcome to the real NEW WORLD ORDER