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Originally Posted by Joshua G
are you aware of the 4 million tech sector jobs that are unfulfilled due to lack of americans who bother to educate themselves sufficient to get them?
what your proposing, fine sire, when you say business must create these jobs, is trickle down economics! I suspect you dont support that economic theory.
fact is business is not going to supply jobs that they dont have a business need to create. It would help the unskilled a great deal, with the tech revolution, to get off the couch, stop watching breaking bad, & crack open a science book.
just IMO  |
I am well aware of the trade school employment gap. Right now if you are a diesel mechanic or a welder or similar trade there are plenty of well paying jobs out there for you. Right now we have a rash of people who decided to either skip any school after high school or do a full college degree because being a welder or a mechanic isn't sexy.
Anyway, what I am saying is that 20 years of shitty policies in this country have created an environment where is is very easy and profitable for companies to take their manufacturing overseas. Today if a guy was thinking about starting a company that made some product there is very little to attract him to building his business here in the US and in most cases he will end up putting at least the manufacturing leg of his company overseas.
I don't believe in trickle down economics. We have plenty of evidence to show that it doesn't work. However, I do believe in people who get an idea and want to start a business and that business eventually needs employees so the company does create jobs. The problem is that most of the jobs being created right now in this country are either low paying service and retail type jobs or high paying tech jobs. The mid range paying jobs are now in China and Guatemala and other third world places. The number one thing our nation needs is a strong middle class and until we figure out how to bring those types of jobs back or replace them with something elese it is going to be rough to maintain that.