One of the reasons for high unemployment are that lower paid unskilled jobs used to TEACH young people the “importance of work/beauty of a paycheck”. These food service, manual seasonal worker, checkout clerk jobs are now being performed by our older “skilled worker”.

Skilled workers who used to produce goods,these displaced older workers have to try to make a living and with the outsourcing of manufacturing base, they have to find work where they can.

As a nation, this equates to an old American saying, economically “shooting ourselves in the foot”. Sad for a country of supposedly intelligent people.

“Good luck finding a job kid, you’re going to need it.”

Seems we’ve gone from a society where everyone had a chance to make a decent living, to one where the bottom line on Wall Street has usurped decency. There’s no fair playing field left.

Millions are raked in by the 2 percent at the top, the crumbs are distributed among those that actually produce the services or goods. This in a Democracy????? With Liberty and Justice for All?

Loyalty to a company by the workers it employs? A thing of the past, as companies treat employees as disposable, dischargeable asset manipulation devices. Profits aren’t high enough? Well, they simply downsize by 10,000 workers, shift the work overseas or to the remaining workers. Ahhh, profits go up…temporarily. No one with money to buy the goods, profits go down, cycle starts again. End result….BAILOUT. Foolish!!!!!

Government has made it far too easy, even encouraged companies to solve profit “GREED” problems with the outsourcing of jobs. FAILURE of our Economic System?

Dear Dr. Kissinger - Thanks for all the opening of China during the Nixon years debacle. My grandchildren thank you for tax debt they will be paying for years. Opening this door - instead of being the Global wonder you envisioned, simply widened the way that profits could rise for companies in the U.S. Finding them a virtual unlimited supply of CHEAP labor, taking jobs away from Americans, sending Billions of dollars that should be at work in the U.S. overseas. That rising DEBT will probably be the downfall of our country.
I believe the marshalls they drug out of prison to set the course for a future China outsmarted you. You just never realized it. I’ll bet you made a lot on the companies that took advantage of outsourcing in the early days. Future generations thank you.

If someone had enough time, it could probably be linked to the GREED of less than 1000 big shots who took way more than they were ever entitled to. Solution might be to string them all up, distribute their wealth back to the workers who actually made it. The economic health of our nation may depend on drastic action. Will it happen? No…the masses will pay, the rich will get richer…life will go on.