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bpuharic

On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:01:37 -0400, wrote:

I think workers need to go get the skills to compete in a 21st century
labor market. That is not really being provided by our K-12 and
secondary education system.
The reality is I am not really sure what the middle class in all of
the Western Democracies are going to do to maintain the lifestyle they
desire.
I blame a lot of it on the greed of the consumer. Nom summed it up
when she said "why should she pay more to support American
manufacturers".

Most of our prosperity was based on union factory workers making
outrageous money for doing a mediocre, mundane job.

dont you love the right wing!!

wall street managers LITERALLY made BILLIONS while contributing
NOTHING to the ecomony. in 1997 the financial sector accounted for
about 20% of GDP. in 2007 it accounted for 40%

yet americans weren't richer. we weren't more competitive.

so who does the right wing blame?

the middle class

I also fear for guys like Bob P. It sounds like he has a dead end job

notice how the right wing obsesses on anecdotes. they can't understand
the collapse of the economy wrought by their radical free market
'final solution' to the worker problesm

the right wings says

1. pay the rich as much as you can
2. pay the middle class nothing

then they wonder why the middle class can't spend

the right wing simply does not know that 10,000,000 people have lost
their jobs in the last 3 years. to them, everything is OK because the
rich are doing fine

in a company that does not really value his work and he talks like his
prospects for future employment are not that great when they ship his
cubicle to India.
Thus is the global economy and the union in Germany doesn't seem to
have any more power than ours do in that regard.

gee. the germans seem to be doing fine. and they're heavily unionized