After the Obama jobs speech, it’s time for a little reality. Obama can no more create jobs than he can paddle up Niagara Falls with a toothpick. There just aren’t jobs, they’re gone baby, gone. Another Patrick J. Buchanan essay. It’s a very succinct article on why we are no longer a productive, fully-employed nation. Corporate America sold out Americans and jobs in the name of profit. This made the rich more money than they could ever imagine, and has dumped the average American into low-paying service jobs (or unemployment). The gap between rich and poor has never been greater. People bought the con that we were becoming a “service economy;” how well has that worked out? While there are many reasons why Corporations shipped jobs overseas (government over-regulation, taxes, unions, lawsuits), the main reason is profit and greed. Those holding the stock and therefore receiving the dividends, made more money and profit, workers and America be damned. The stampede for ever increasing profits fueled the gutting of our manufacturing base, and to some extent our technology base as many of our tech products are now produced in Asia. Can we restore our manufacturing and technology base or is it already too late?
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