"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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HK wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:16:46 -0500, wrote:
Couple that with a union that forces companies to pay people
$65,000-$70,000 a year to do virtually nothing and you can see why
the
auto industry has either moved to "right to work states" or simply
given up its market share to the Asians.
Many of my winter neighbors are from Michigan. One of them does a
really funny imitation of someone running an air powered screw gun on
an assembly line while claiming to be highly skilled labor.
It's really charming when well-off SOBs make fun of guys who have to
work crap jobs to make ends meet. It's one of your more endearing
qualities, Dwayne.
Nobody is forced to work a crap job. Each and everyone who works one of
those crap jobs has applied for it or responded in the affirmative when
offered the job. They only have themselves to blame. Personal
responsibility is bitch aint she.
What's a bitch is going through life without the ability to see things
through the eyes of people less fortunate than you. Normally, you learn
that from your parents. Yours must've been pigs.
Maybe they should have stayed through the 12th grade. Maybe they should
have learned to read and write. Most of the older than teen years people
in crap jobs lack either the training, education or gumption to get a
better job. I worked while going though university. Took me 8 years to
get that Bachelor of Science degree, but spending 10-11 hours a day
working and studying. Does not take a lot of skill to install lugnuts on
an assembly line.
You have a point. All we ever heard growing up was how important an
education was for obtaining a decent job when we grew up as an inducement to
work hard in school. Now it seems that everyone expects and is entitled to
a good job regardless of how they applied themselves in school.
We should focus more on making sure that people less fortunate have the
opportunity for an education, not a guarantied, high paying job. It then
remains an individual choice, not a social program.
Eisboch