[Tokhtamish]

Dogbyte12, I agree completely.

You can always tell a bad neighborhood because it has lots of idle young men hanging out at all hours. Free trade fools who babbled about low skill jobs being "jobs America can afford to lose" never wondered about a society full of idle young men hanging out at all hours. How safe streets would be in such a future. And you are absolutely right. If young people with no college educations and no hope of a better future vote, they will vote themselves the goodies.

And this is leaving out the other end. The 50ish worker whose career has been outsourced/offshored. He knows that "retraining" to start at the bottom in something new is futile because employers frankly do not want a 50 year old intern/trainee. Don't you think he is going to vote himself a pension ?

The bottom line of globalism is a growing dispossessed population which will support redistributionist economics.

[ninenot]

He knows that "retraining" to start at the bottom in something new is futile because employers frankly do not want a 50 year old intern/trainee.

EVEN IF a '50-yer-old trainee' WOULD be considered--it'd only take about 2 seconds to realize that if EVER called back to his $19.95/hour plus bennies job--he'd go in a flash.

THe reluctance to hire has to do with retention, not necessarily capability.