gallantwarrior
Gold Member
The middle class is the backbone of this country so you better hope the government doesn't wipe it out.
Manufacturing and skilled labor is the backbone of the middle class, if they keep regulating manufacturing offshore, the middle class will continue to decline. Skilled labor for construction and infrastructure will still be around but eventually the large numbers of people seeking those jobs will drive the wages down. Just think, you may starve to death, but you can breath really, really clean air while your dying.
The days of growing up to work in the same facotry as your daddy are over. We need to let the lava lamp assembly jobs go overseas where they belong. Paying someone union scale to do a low-skilled job is out of whack with the natural order of things.
We need to be educating our future workers for nanotechnology, biochemistry, photonics, high finance, and so forth.
Then we really need to refit the public school system as an educational institution and not an indoctrination facility.