If we're told hard work pays off, why not reward hard work with opportunities and not offshored jobs

[Deja Q]

This includes health care.

Especially in a day and age when we're helping every other nation build themselves up while we're seemingly tearing ourselves down?

[ruiner4u]

1. To build on that...

why not tax 'actual' work less then money placed in the stock market...

[Deja Q]

4. Or at least make products worth purchasing;

which in turn will generate more customers and improve profits for the long term.

Some products are poorly made, I wouldn't trust them again. And not all of them are made in China, and thanks to Mattel I learned a new perspective between responsibilities; it's not always the foreign factory's fault. It is situation-dependent.

[blm]

2. What are you, a human being or something?

Very well put, HT, Simple and sensible.

[Deja Q]

3. No, only pithy and inquisitve.

And you know what that does to cats. :rofl:

[HughBeaumont]

5. It's all about the BETTERS when it comes down to it.

"What can YOU do to make THE BETTERS happy?" That's ALL that's mattered in this country since it was founded. We came here to find a better life and ended up with the same old one.

And would a revolt make things better? Eventually, a few with their greediness would rise through exploitation and force and things would be the same all over again.

Why will no one realize that when the middle class does well, the rich will do even better? Or is it that the betters just don't WANT that? I truly believe that they'll sacrifice the long term outlook of their companies and the economy to get theirs NOW. Because no matter if we have a collapse and then a depression . . . they're still rich.

And "Work hard, and you'll be successful" is the biggest lie told to mankind this century.

[kirby]

6. That is why...

I think immigration reform to allow low skilled workers is okay, but if the bargain is that we transition to a high tech society, there needs to be protectionism for the high tech stuff. At this point, even the the H1B fiasco and outsourcing, we will have NO jobs left.