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Topic Started: Dec 10 2008, 02:23 PM (333 Views)
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Yhitzak
Dec 11 2008, 07:31 AM
It's not just manufacturing that is suffering because of this American attitude that we're somehow all too good for manual labor. There are innumerable services that are suffering because of it, farmers are having difficult times recruiting new labor, the jobs just aren't glamorous enough to hold people in them for very long. There's this fallacy in America that anyone can be whatever he or she wants to be simply by virtue of being American. Never mind skill sets, work ethic, or personal performance. Those things can be made up for by turnover and outsourcing. Ah, the beauty of capitalism!

I've been thinking about this whole 'oversight' thing and I'm pretty sure it's a sham. Why? Think about it like this: the people who stand to make a lot of money, power, or assets are in charge of keeping track of taxpayer dollars, they make the regulations for the allocation of those dollars. Not just billions of dollars, either, but trillions of dollars. Unrealistic amounts of money. What incentive is there for *anyone* in elected office to act responsibly or in the best interests of the 'common' people when it has been proven time and again that when an elected official does something to violate his/her office, there are few to no repercussions at all? Unless there is a massive coup by the American *people*, these other people will continue to drain us dry. And we will have deserved it for our complacency.
2 words. public education. All major problems like all major rivers have small beginnings.
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