Bernie Sanders is fighting for jobs that soon won't exist.

[rdean]

The high price of ‘free’ trade: NAFTA’s failure has cost the United States jobs across the nation

NAFTA has also contributed to growing income inequality and to the declining relative wages of U.S. workers without college degree, who made up 72.1% of the workforce in 2001 (Mishel et al. 2003, 163).

The growth in U.S. trade and trade deficits has put downward pressure on the wages of workers without a college degree, especially those who have no formal education beyond a high school degree. This group includes most middle- and low-wage workers, including the 68.5% of the total workforce with the lowest pay, those earning a wage that is equal to 200% or less of poverty level wages in 2001 (Mishel et al. 2003, p. 134).

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Throughout the entire article, jobs are again and again referred to "labor intensive". China, which pays it's "labor intensive" workers an average of $172 a month will soon feel the pain of "robots", a million of which are being installed to replace millions of workers. They could be installed here, considering we are or will be the number one energy producer in the world. Along with robots comes metals, electronics, computers, scientists, technicians, engineers and all the infrastructure involved.
Bernie is fighting for jobs that soon won't exist anywhere. We have to look ahead. Not behind.

America has 5.8 million job openings

That's why business is struggling to find qualified workers. Just making college free won't turn out good workers, it will turn out more people with art degrees. Don't get be wrong, I love art, but we need more than pretty pictures.

 

[Obiwan]

Apparently, those aren't the only jobs he's getting involved with....
Craigslist Ad: ‘Get Paid $15 an Hour to Protest at the Trump Rally’

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We need to totally reform our failed educational system. We graduate generations of illiterates who can't think, read, or write; who can't name three Founding Fathers if you spotted them Adams and Franklin; who think Socialism is cool and Capitalism is evil. They're rallying for $15/hour minimum wage because they think it's a lot of money

 

[Obiwan]

We need to totally reform our failed educational system. We graduate generations of illiterates who can't think, read, or write; who can't name three Founding Fathers if you spotted them Adams and Franklin; who think Socialism is cool and Capitalism is evil. They're rallying for $15/hour minimum wage because they think it's a lot of money

Personally, I don't think that's very good pay for starting a ruckus, swinging on an old man, and getting pepper sprayed....

But that's just me....

 

[Sunni Man]

That's why business is struggling to find qualified workers. Just making college free won't turn out good workers, it will turn out more people with art degrees. Don't get be wrong, I love art, but we need more than pretty pictures.

100% agree .....

 

[Arianrhod]

The point that whizzes right over your pointy little heads is that you pay someone $15 an hour so they can get off supplemental assistance (thus saving the taxpayer $) and then you retrain them for a job that's needed (as is being done with coal workers -> sustainable energy).

Apparently an elusive concept for those stuck in a dead-end job with no ambition toward improvement.

 

[Obiwan]

The point that whizzes right over your pointy little heads is that you pay someone $15 an hour so they can get off supplemental assistance (thus saving the taxpayer $) and then you retrain them for a job that's needed (as is being done with coal workers -> sustainable energy).

Apparently an elusive concept for those stuck in a dead-end job with no ambition toward improvement.

McDonald's trains burger-flippers for really high-paying jobs???

Did THIS guy do your interview???

 

[rdean]

That's why business is struggling to find qualified workers. Just making college free won't turn out good workers, it will turn out more people with art degrees. Don't get be wrong, I love art, but we need more than pretty pictures.

100% agree .....

I'm shocked.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The point that whizzes right over your pointy little heads is that you pay someone $15 an hour so they can get off supplemental assistance (thus saving the taxpayer $) and then you retrain them for a job that's needed (as is being done with coal workers -> sustainable energy).

Apparently an elusive concept for those stuck in a dead-end job with no ambition toward improvement.

ok so then what happens when those at the $15 an hour level and above want a raise?....

 

[Sunni Man]

I'm shocked.

Why is that?

I worked a technical job all of my life, (mechanical engineer), for various companies and know first hand what our country is lacking in potential employee skill sets.

We need more degreed engineers, IT people, hard rock geologist's, mill wrights and CNC operators, certified welders, pipe fitters, electricians, etc.

We already have plenty of people with Gender studies and Black history degrees. ....

 

[rdean]

I'm shocked.

Why is that?

I worked a technical job all of my life, (mechanical engineer), for various companies and know first hand what our country is lacking in potential employee skill sets.

We need more degreed engineers, IT people, hard rock geologist's, mill wrights and CNC operators, certified welders, pipe fitters, electricians, etc.

We already have plenty of people with Gender studies and Black history degrees. ....

And free college will take away resources that pays for degreed engineers, IT people, hard rock geologist's, mill wrights and CNC operators, certified welders, pipe fitters, electricians, etc.

It's clear.