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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 12:38 PM Jun 2015

Brutal Truth:Talk Of Good Jobs A Fraud & Empty Rhetoric. There Won't Be Enough Of Them.

Good jobs are disappearing by the day and will accelerate under our trade agreements and work visa policy. American workers will lose their good jobs and decent pay to offshoring, outsourcing, contracting and immigration. The business establishment, its GOP allies, Moderate Dems et al value cheap foreign labor over OVERPAID American workers.

Now I have posted many times about the jobs situation and the structural changes that CONDEMN American workers to a life of work misery. Sure there are a lot of reported jobs. But most of them won't feed a pidgeon much less a person or a family. The brutal truth is that there will be few life sustain jobs compared the the demand. I have said in the past 80% of the jobs over time will occur in these categories. Like stuffing a phone booth American workers will be competing for the less than 20% of decent paying jobs.

The Disney replacement of American workers is just the tip of the iceberg. Most companies are or will do it. Our own Congress will likely make immigration visas unlimited and replacing American workers will be MORE THE NORM.

So if you are an American citizen you will like lose your job to offshoring, outsourcing, contracting, privatizing or immigrant insourcing. WAKE UP AMERICAN WORKERS ARE REALLY IN LAST PLACE. And your Congressional politician could care less because you are paying for their permanent job with lifetime pensions. Meanwhile the American worker will have nothing.

We have a lot of reported jobs, but there is NO security and SHRINKING pay and benefits. When you hear about education and competing with the "global economy" it is a LIE/BULLSHIT. THEY DO NOT CARE THEY HAVE THEIRS.

I doubt I will get much response on this OP. I have seen the reality and trends in the bowels of DOL since Ronald Reagan. And the stats I see and trends are grim for the future. The work future is dystopian and now more like 1900 in reality. Forget the media it puts out corporate propaganda.

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Brutal Truth:Talk Of Good Jobs A Fraud & Empty Rhetoric. There Won't Be Enough Of Them. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jun 2015 OP
kick 840high Jun 2015 #1
k and r niyad Jun 2015 #2
"Socially liberal, economically conservative" is bunk. Not having a job or a home is a Social Justice Romulox Jun 2015 #3
The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks Own And Control The Politicians And Media That Own And Control Us cantbeserious Jun 2015 #4
This is why I've been advocating for protectionism of big business to expire. Xyzse Jun 2015 #5
constant dollar median income data show no huge dropoff whatthehey Jun 2015 #6

Romulox

(25,960 posts)
3. "Socially liberal, economically conservative" is bunk. Not having a job or a home is a Social Justice
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 12:41 PM
Jun 2015

issue.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
5. This is why I've been advocating for protectionism of big business to expire.
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 12:42 PM
Jun 2015

See, I firmly believe that emerging businesses should be protected, but those that are established should lose those protections.

I tend to think that businesses starting up, from 1-10 years should enjoy benefits and tax brakes that would allow them to expand, hire more people and build. They are the ones that create progress and advancement.

Larger and established businesses then become "Conservative", where they then merely serve the bottom line, try to suborn emerging business to protect their pre-existing model, and don't really hire any more except to replace or cut jobs.

Well, I can only agree with you.

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