[Lazamataz]

The most successful will be managing those businesses and be trying to find new and better things from the opprotunities that spring up

Okay, you've accounted for about 2% of the workforce.

What about the other 98%?

You seem to think America can be a nation of CEO's.

Look I lived through this type of thing before when I was teen in the Pittsburgh area in the late 70's and early 80's when the steel mills shut down.

Leaving aside for a second that I simply do not believe you were alive in the 1970's and early 1980's, this differs greatly from the loss of blue collar jobs then. See, at that time we were told that we'd be able to get white collar jobs, even the lesser-skilled people.

Now there is nothing to fall back upon, except maybe pink collar jobs, since we will not be able to afford shirts.

[Dane]

You seem to think America can be a nation of CEO's

Nope but it can be a nation of small businessmen and women. People who see opportunities and are willing to work to prosper for themselves.

OH BTW, small businesses employ the majority of people in the US.

Leaving aside for a second that I simply do not believe you were alive in the 1970's and early 1980's, this differs greatly from the loss of blue collar jobs then. See, at that time we were told that we'd be able to get white collar jobs, even the lesser-skilled people.

Looking at your first sentence of the above italicized passage, I would reccommend that you don't enter stand up comedy. Second, it is the same mentality of the steel workers who got caught up in the explosive change that went through the US manufacturing sector in the late 70's and early 80's.

Some whined incessantly, the vast majority moved on and prospered in other areas.

[Agamemnon]

You seem to think America can be a nation of CEO's.

Weaker minds generally fail to understand the fact that when you work for yourself, you are the CEO.

The path to success you follow just gives you the brownest of lips and none of that precious job security you crave.

Might want to start thinking of job that pays you the kind of money you want to make without feeling like you have to have a boss above you that you can kiss up to just so and he can protect your job.

A pathetic career path to be sure. Maybe you could be an author of a best seller entitiled, "How brown was my nose!"

[A. Pole]

You seem to think America can be a nation of CEO's.

I suspect that he does not count people who are not CEOs or indendently rich or otherwise "successful" as belonging to the nation. This is the mindset of Latin American oligarchists.

[Nowhere Man]

Leaving aside for a second that I simply do not believe you were alive in the 1970's and early 1980's, this differs greatly from the loss of blue collar jobs then. See, at that time we were told that we'd be able to get white collar jobs, even the lesser-skilled people.

I remember those days in Pittsburgh too, I'm 37, so I remember when a lot of the steel mills closed too. A lot of good people were hurt although there have been some that were able to move on. This is different now because the jobs they could have moved on to are disappearing too.