No, weak failing businesses will go under. They weren't putting out a good enough product. If you're bitchin about paying workers, your business is obviously weak and failing. It's probably best to close up shop. It's survival of the fittest. The American Way.
A weak and failing people rely increasingly on a nanny state that dictates fairness to its' subjects. Probably time to pack up and leave.
The government is to blame. The government is responsible for lost opportunities for citizens to be self-supporting members of society. Workers have seen their jobs go to cheap foreign labor markets as result of our unfair, unjust, and one-sided foreign trade agreements and policies. We have un-penalized off-shore job out-sourcing, the un-penalized importing of labor, and we have millions of illegal immigrants living and working in this country. We have closed steel mills, textile mills, furniture and appliance plants, lost the tool, toy, electronics, and automotive parts industries. We've become import dependent, and have sacrificed our economic well-being in favor of supporting foreign economies.
We've been forced to lower our standard of living, and forced to depend on government assistance programs and unemployment checks for our economic survival. We can't work for $5.00 a day wages, nor do we work children in sweat shops 18 hours a day. Our plants and factories once provided living wages and self-supporting opportunities that covered all education and skill levels. Now, we are working part-time jobs, low wage jobs, and temporary jobs. Our work force has out-grown the available jobs, and our population continues to grow rapidly. Where are people to work? Our markets are flooded with cheap foreign imports, and the "Made In U.S.A." label is not a common sight on store shelves.
The term "Global Economy" basically means "equalization to the lowest level", and we're rapidly approaching that equalization. We do not have an adequate number of jobs to satisfy the demand. We have college grads living at home with parents and flipping burgers to make spending money. Consumers don't have enough spendable income in their pockets to support the retail stores. We're seeing large chain stores go under, malls becoming ghost buildings, and cities going bankrupt due to lost tax revenue. We have less home ownership, less of a Middle Class, less household wealth, and seniors are being forced to work past retirement age. We've created a poor and dependent citizenry, and more of the once Middle Class are dropping into the poor class than rising up to the upper class.
So, lets pass the blame where it really belongs. John Q. Public doesn't vote on the floors of Congress, nor sit in the oval office engineering policy. We're at the mercy of those that we've entrusted with our well-being, and they have betrayed that trust for many decades now. We've been sold out by the very ones we trusted to protect and to serve this nation and her citizens. This socioeconomic mess didn't just start yesterday, nor last week. It's been a work in progress for many decades now, through many administrations, both Republican and Democrat. And, "The Selling of America" Continues as we speak.
So, don't blame the worker who wants to be self-supporting and stand on his own feet. Blame the government for taking away his opportunity to be a self-supporting member of society. We can blame employers and employees until we turn blue in the face, but we'll be ignoring the root causes of our many socioeconomic woes.
