DISQUS

margaret_in_colorado · 7 months ago

comparing apples with oranges elevating and oppressing one another, its sad to see we still channel through these avenues, wouldn't it be better to allow industry to migrate through education. creating mastery through our workforce will create work for all, sensibly, while naturally capping over and under weighted aspects profits, production, services etc.. it will also generate a higher quality of all aspects as individuals persue their hearts desires percieving a sense of worth and esteem through our works as we develop. yes there is a way to create good jobs, eliminate debt entirely, provide means for all needs, with a decient retirement package, through i do not percieve we will choose to retire. seems we will just rechannel our living works while earning a living wage. it can impliment today.

Robert/RobtF777 · 7 months ago

"Good" jobs were -- and are -- out-sourced to whatever cheaper labor sources Big Business -- and Little Businesses -- can find.

A lot of jobs that can be done on the telephone/computer from home are now done from "home" in India where "contract employees" make a fraction of what US workers in the US once made.

Ditto with steel, a lot of farming, furniture and car manufacturing --- all out-sourced to China, Mexico and Canada where labor is cheaper.

But even a lot of labor and service jobs in the US have been "out-sourced" --- to non-union illegal aliens who will gladly work hard for a fraction of what a company would have to pay a legal and unionized US citizen.

Why pay top-dollar to a US citizen to build houses or work in the fields when both businesses and companies can pay less -- sometimes far less -- to an illegal that they can exploit?

And the answer isn't to "legalize" or unionize those who are in this country illegally; once someone is legalized and unionized, he is going to expect wages that a legal/union worker should get --- and he will promptly be replaced by another illegal who can be exploited.

The answer is to insure that everyone who enters this country to "visit" does just that; They don't come to work, they visit for a short time, and then they go back to their own country. They don't illegally enter this country and then "low-bid" a US citizen or legal resident out of a job.

When I visit Mexico or Europe or Australia, I LEGALLY enter that country; I don't sneak in. And I go to visit -- NOT to put a Mexican out of a job by offering to work his job for less than he is getting paid.

Fair is fair. I enter Mexico, Europe and Australia legally and I legally re-enter this country. I don't sneak across the fences. It's fair to expect that those who enter this country simply do the same: Do so LEGALLY. Stand in the lines I stand in, fill out the paperwork I fill out, and legally enter the US.

Rose · 7 months ago

Hey DP... nI think that you need to tell the Dems/Libs that... that it isn't good enough to create jobs, you need to create good jobs. Obama's stimulus bill MAY temporarily create jobs but after two years it is the responsibility of the state that accepted the stimulus money to continue it . Is that a good job, is that your idea of a good job? Yes? NO... but according to the Dems timetable it is long enough to get them re-elected again and then what? We have to take back our jobs from government interference and go through this thing again. The high inflation is coming which is the pendlum swing of putting all this printed currency the government poured in to our economy. Good luck.

jack · 7 months ago

hey, i dont hve "good" job , like i shopped at the big stores with the unions for like 20year and look what has going on. No !good jobs in electroincs they are all gone overseas, the only good jobs are in the services sector or in the goverment there, no! more in the manufacutrirng sector which im working at . id be happy to get a job at safeway or kings just to make ends meet and im not faulting the unions too now.. they do have a point but why stirke?/with this economy ..Shame on them!! shame... my family is sick there. does the unions come and help me when i need them?? do they have to raise a sick mom who is 90 yrs young and a older brother who is 50yrs with a heartxondition , cmon unions let face it what you DONE= for me at the grocery stores late ly?? i go and shop at wal-mart and wlagreens . why are u complaining . even gov ritter even changed his mind on the unions and he has the right too. but i dont like two faced people like him there. and also let look at this most of the union famlies will have jobs even when they strike . they let their family go for jobs to support them.. it TRUE.. my freind was in the unions and he calls it a simple vacation there from the jo b . can u believe that ,what he said coming forma union person there at the grpocery store. so be very carful what u at the unions wished for . con tinue negotating the contracts BUT>> i be there to help safeways and kings for just a job to get into the store this ways.

swworker · 7 months ago

I do not have a college degree, I wish I did but this is where I am now. I used to have office skills but the grocery industry paid better and had better benefits than I could make anywhere else. My husband and my daughter had severe health problems when I started my career. I have always been very grateful to have a job that took such good care of all of us. Now years later I have made my way to retirement. My body is worn out, joints, back, feet...you name it. I am sorry to say to that the company to whom we, the workers, have given our loyalty and most of our family and social lives for because we had to work nights, weekends and holidays is throwing us to the wolves. It seems like the words corporation and corruption have come to have the same meaning; dirty, underhanded and proud of it. I know most people couldn't care less but every source of good jobs that goes down the drain will pull more down with it and soon we'll all have to help from the government just to survive and that is bad for everyone.