But didn't you say...A society needs fairly decent jobs for people with lower HS education and or lack of ambition.
So why are ag jobs not 'good enough' for people with lack of ambition?
I have read many of your posts and you seem to consisently ring one of two bells:
-The US economy is doomed
-Corporations versus the poor workers
Interesting...very revealing.
Because 1)it's not just lack of ambition, but also the bell curve of talent, and 2) the situation of the average voter determines the course of the republic. You're pretending that education is the only problem -- without realizing that without the motivation to complete an education, it's not going to happen.
The falling US dollar and the increasing value of the yuan are among solutions to that, BTW. Another solution is homeschooling for those who have the time to do it.
Quote: I have read many of your posts and you seem to consisently ring one of two bells:
-The US economy is doomed
-Corporations versus the poor workers
Interesting...very revealing.
I live in an area that was very prosperous due to manufacturing. It is now all gone and I have seen what the resulting service jobs have done to my area in regards to standards of living. My brother comes home about once every 2 years and every time he comes home he says the areas looks worse each time.
A new Cabelas opened up at 9.00 per hour and people were going nuts over these part time/seasonal jobs. The local newsgal on the 6:00 news actually said there was a new Sheetz gas station opening up with 3 full time and 15 P/T workers starting at $7.50 pr hour. Whoopee!!!
Yeah I imay have alittle doom and gloom but I see the twin deficits, outsourcing, record debt, pensions plans underfunded etc etc and it's not getting any better.
There should be more people like me that would get the mess straigthened out in Washington.
Not very area of the country is thriving.
When I was growing up, a friend's father was a janitor, his mother, with the exception of seasonal work in the local cannery, stayed home. Still they were able to lead a very solid, but not extravagant, middle class life. They owned their own home and a couple of acres where they built a vacation home. They had a car and a truck and health insurance. The point isn't that people lack ambition, not everyone is cut out for an MBA, or that ag jobs are not good enough. The point is that these jobs no longer pay enough for present day workers to take care of their families.