epiphiny43
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Please tell me how American workers have an equal opportunity to compete against some guy in China who will do the job for $1/hour. We freed the slaves but you seem to think slavery is fine as long as you can't see it.
I think most of what you wrote above is eloquently worded bullshit.
Maybe those same American workers shouldnt have been shopping at Walmart for years/decades if they valued their jobs so damn much... maybe they shouldnt blame the guy in China but they should blame their fellow Americans that put them out of a job in the first place.. the guy in China doesnt have a job if Americans dont buy that stuff and instead pay more to keep American workers working, but if yer fellow Americans dont give a shite about your job then blame them, not some poor schmuck in China who is just trying to survive..
More of the BullShit from those running factories and Wall Street to deflect from the actual issues. Nice buy in to the spin.
Workers don't 'choose' to buy from Walmart. Like Market Forces work everywhere, they have to. Real Estate speculators and population growth alone keep pressing the cost of housing up. Food sure isn't getting cheaper. Working class wages have been losing against Cost Of Living indexes since the 50s. The consumer culture feeds this with unabated pressure to consume more, which is exactly why the now semi-affluent Chinese worker who finally can afford a iPhone and maybe a car, is being replaced by south Asian and East African workers. As long as nations allow the owners to profit by relocating where ever they find more profit, there will be structural displacement and large scale unemployment. Since the major corporations have very successfully prevented any real sharing costs of infrastructure or environmental burdens of either production or long distance transportation of raw materials or finished goods, the Public eats the pollution, and pays to cleanup. (Coastal shipping turns out to be one of the largest air polluters of near shore residential and urban areas. Long distance overseas movement is more worldwide) Only Trump plans to gut the EPA and let US cities smog up to China levels (Current estimates are China loses nearly 1/4 of it's urban worker output to air pollution effects on health, both short term disease and early death.) Talk about the working class shooting themselves in the feet this election!
Nice report on PBS today on the new GM plant in a border state. Only Some cars now make sense to build in the US, (Cadillac SUVs in this case) and to get the plant, the Union had to agree to halve initial starting salaries for workers. Health Care is pushed to ACA, Old style Retirement is Gone, you get a little help with a 401K from GM. Meaning the Good Jobs are Really gone,, and most won't be coming back, no matter what the Eternal Tan Person promises.
More problematic is the burgeoning Robot Manufacturing Revolution now shifting gears to Second. When construction robots replace most tradesmen in home and business construction, the real pinch on workers will start. Factory work you can raise a family on is largely a memory now and fading fast. Nobody looking for a job, or easy answers from bullshitting politicians, wants to look at the reality of our Post-Industrial Society, and it's obvious implications for past concepts of Work, wages, medical care, Social Safety Net and a host of other issues. Fewer good jobs, for only increasingly well educated workers, with shorter remunerative careers, in Any field are our future. If the top of the food chain gets to keep all the profit and screw the rest, we have only the French Revolution to look forward to, or 1984, if our rulers get serious fast enough to keep control.
Damn! Why didn't HRC bring Bernie in as VP candidate? The election would have been a walkover. And we'd have a glimmer of a hope of surviving the 21st Century as a functional society. Good luck kids! I'm out of here before the shit Really hits the fan. It's pretty obvious why Depression is fast becoming the worst medical issue and soon the leading real cause of death. Between the greedy and the dupes buying the Right Wing myths, not much hope is left.
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