It's America's future. Better get used to it.
Having said that, I agree with the article completely. We are in a race to the bottom, sold out by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
Our schools don't teach.
Our borders are all-but open and essentially non-existent.
Our manufacturing base is vanishing.
And, due to changes in legal immigration policy, our nation is losing the cultural cohesiveness that "makes a nation".
Wish I could be more optimistic, but - nearing retirement and having seen too much - I'm not.
- John
Having been through the same period that you have I to agree with the article completely and also agree with your statement completely.
The people who think the American worker is better off doesn't remember when a guy with a high school or college education could provide for all the needs of his family, food ,clothing, home, education, insurance, transportation, health care, a savings plan and a retirement plan, on a forty hour a week job while the wife stayed at home with the kids.
Now it takes both with college working with help from the government just to keep their heads above water and it's going to get worse at an ever increasing rate of speed.
The same Republicans that where screaming their heads off in 1994 about the unprecedented spending and growth of the Federal government's $1,000,000,000,000.00 budget have tripled it in twelve years. All the while this is being done, the tax base is being destroyed.
This is either insanity,or a deliberate act to weaken or destroy our ability to remain a soverign independent self sufficent nation.
Our good paying jobs continue to be outsourced and those that are left are being undermined by a flood of imported cheap illegal labor who are here to take more dollars from the country not to be part of it.
It looks to me like the same economic weapon that was used on the Soviet Union to bring it to it's knees is now being used on us by those within our government and the world who want to see the United States as just another town in the Global Community.
Like the Soviet Union they are spending us into mediocracy,destroying the middle class which has always been one of the great strengths in our country or any country's future.
Without a large strong middle class their is only a great gap between those who have wealth and power and those who serve their needs.
I think the days of the U.S. as an independent super power are just about over, brought down by our own anything for a dollar greed based mentality .
But then like you I also think it is too late to stop it and the only thing we can do is as individuals is try to prepare us and our children for the consequences of the fall as best we can.