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Originally Posted by NefariousKoel
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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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And thats a really good thing too... if that happened to any country it would be in shambles...
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Yep, but STEED thinks it's happening already to all of Europe. I disagree.
@ elite - Middle class jobs don't go overseas. Low-income low-skill jobs are what get outsourced. Why? Because labour is cheaper abroad. It is a fact of globalisation that Western workers can't undercut foreign workers, and thats not necessarily a bad thing. Western workers have a skill advantage, they are more highly-trained, and if they're not they should be.
The West can't compete in low-skill manufacturing anymore, most Western economies have moved past it. |
Yeah, and I see the "low-income low-skill" Americans increasing. That's the only people the current status-quo hurts. I see quite a few of these people every day. The American lower class has been getting lower quite a bit lately, the only beneficiaries that I've seen are the illegal/imported Mexicans from.
The sad thing is, many times daily I see Mexican immigrants ( many here legally due to their employers pulling strings) who can't speak any English whip out wads of $100 bills to buy whatever they want without hesitation. While I see people born here in the US scraping up coins... literally dollars worth.. to buy something that's less than $10. I certainly can't say they're rocket scientists, but I'm positive they could get a job in all the chicken processing plants/playground equipment manufacturers in one of the towns I work.
The Mexicans have more disposable income than I do and I'm single with no children!
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I know, but another point to bring up is why are some americans very poor and unemployed? My theory is that some of them are poor because they don't want to do any work, or some have made very bad choices in life like drug abbuse, and serious felonies. there are also of course some people who just cant get back on their feet due to un forseen problems and such, but as I understand it, that is a pretty small percentage of the low income class of the US.