2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Fuck the braindead notion that we can say "Fuck the white working class." [View all]Horse with no Name
(34,053 posts)Jobs that require training and education ARE the wave of the future.
I am 53 and probably the LAST generation where a High School graduate could make a living.
People are so worried about saving a buck that they buy cheap Chinese shit AND that mentality stole millions of jobs.
Jobs fixing things went away when it became cheaper to buy a new one than it did to fix an old one.
Allowing republicans to privatize services also cost a lot of jobs.
When I was growing up, city sanitation workers made a good living with benefits and a pension.
Now, those jobs are outsourced. CEO's make a ton of money....the workers are part time jobs with no benefits.
The customers don't pay any less so what was the point?
This siphoning of money to the top of the food chain is the death of our country.
The republicans are very good at framing the debate and the media follows along. Instead of giving reasons WHY the jobs are gone (mostly republican policy), we don't frame the answer in an understandable sound bite mainly because there are complex reasons why we don't have jobs.