Reply #36: This is beyond scary. [View All]

[mcscajun]

We lost our manufacturing base, so we moved from an "industrial economy" to an "information economy" and technical jobs were the way to go; technical training and college degrees were the order of the day.

For the last several years, corporations have been outsourcing and offshoring our technical jobs, and so we're moving to a 'service economy'.

I used to crack wise (when I still had that technical job, before it moved to India, and yes, I had a degree) that we'd all be saying "Do you want fries with that?" to each other not too long from now, and the economy would be tanking, 'cause if nobody's got a decent income, just WHO would we be servicing in this new economy?

Now, they're figuring out ways to eliminate the bottom-rung service jobs? Priceless.

Class war ain't "too far off": It's Here. And We're Losing. How long before the clueless get clued in and take to the battlements?