>>Entry level jobs are there for a reason. They were never, never intended to be careers, and that is the crux of the issue IMO.
I agree completely. But when the government and economists think that giving a $25/hr manufacturing job to China and replacing it with a $7.25/hr fast food job constitutes “no net job losses”, you effectively turn these crappy little jobs into a career because the Elites say that the only career the little people need is a weekly paycheck.
$15 for a typical minimum wage job is ridiculous. But so is a grown man with a family who is forced to apply for one because the stock value needed a little bump this quarter. They use the $15 minimum wage ruse to distract us while they ship our jobs overseas and replace the rest of us with H1b holders and illegals sharing a social security number.
We claim to hate the welfare state, but every time a worker becomes an unemployed worker, the busines owner has moved a self-sufficient citizen over to the care of society and those of us left working pay the price.
I see your point.
The H1B visa issue is very sensitive in my line of work. Many in my industry are degreed Ivy league engineers with many years of experience, and many are underemployed, they have exhausted unemployment. Obama has, thru sequester, ended jobs for many talented people.
In the Obamanation, aerospace companies drastically reduced manpower, laid off higher priced engineers and replaced them with lower paid, less experienced engineers from other countries, and have produced inferior quality product, which is failing, costing lives, and product, and creating safety concerns.
Often this requires rehiring US engineers to fix the problems, but then they require those engineers to TRAIN H1B visa engineers to replace them.
I wish to point out, that there are some terrific Foreign Engineers.
They will not hire US engineers in many parts of the world.
We went from In-House manufacturing, which greatly improved final end products, and lean engineering processes, and lower end costs to shipping out our manufacturing to other countries, and making us final Assemblers of our own designs.
What people do not realize is that when you take away the manufacturing, you lose experience to do those jobs, which often are learned from preceding generations on-the-job, and it will take generations to get that expertise back again.
Donald Trump knows this, the brain drain from lost manufacturing must be regained immediately to maintain our technological edge, and to excel for future development for all US products and technology.
The logical output for renewed manufacturing is the human element, we will need this labor, and will teach them well, and they will make enough to want to keep that job, and do it well. They will become the backbone of new manufacturing processes, and as the Donald says, it will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.