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Old 02-24-2004, 07:56 AM   #10 (permalink)
onetime2
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Originally posted by pan6467
Yes, by phasing the jobs out slowly, while the company or government retrains.

It's bullshit that education is getting cut as people lose thier jobs and we talk of "retraining" but have no intention of helping to pay for it.

How can you tell an unemployed person they need to find the money to not just eat but to go to school to be "retrained", as our great president cuts education, cuts unemployment benefits and makes it harder to afford school.

Ok here's Econ 101 and something we have lost sight of..........

If your country has factories and workers your tax base goes up twice. First by the factories producing goods sold, secondly by the employees that get paid liveable wages for the jobs they do. In the 50's - 70's this was how this nation became great. We had the highest standard of living, a standard of education that still has not been surpassed, everyone got decent healthcare and affordable medicines, an infrastructure to be proud of, cities in which people could live safely and so on.

When a country no longer produces its own goods, that country eventually perishes into poverty faces a 2 class system and loses its tax base. That's what it seems is happening to us now.

For these baby boomers to have used the system and gotten as far as they have only to turn thier backs on it and let it become obsolete and bankrupt is not only selfish, destructive to future generations and showing greed, but suicidal to the very country they say they love so much.

How you keep on top is very simple. As one generation works and provides for the next, the education system is constantly updated and restructured to make sure the younger generation can get the jobs of the future.

It is not happening today, our public educational system is being gutted people. Children are reading textbooks 10-20 years old, that is not keeping up with the rest of the world, that is falling behind.
How would you phase jobs out slowly? Would you pass laws to require US corporate helpdesks to be maintained in the US? What's to stop companies from changing their headquarters to Bermuda (as many choose to do)?

Factory jobs are no panacea. How do you propose that US companies compete globally when their labor costs are higher by multiples?

Do you realize that textbooks have always been outdated? Or that textbooks do not supply all the required information anyway? They are to be aids not the sole source of knowledge. Teachers and outside resources are part of the equation.
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