Posted on 03/29/2021 7:53:59 AM PDT by amorphous
Today "made in the USA" is a sign of quality....
No, it's not...it's much worse.
Simplistic thinking isn't going to save this country. Only a bottom up approach, and time, would fix it. Unfortunately time has ran out, and "fixing it" is never going to happen before we crash headlong into our well deserved reward.
If I could name one thing that might give us a chance of survival, as a nation, it would be to stop abortion. That seems to be impossible, tho, and my reasoning behind thinking we won't last much longer, now.
Everything else, as complicated and larger than life as it is, is secondary to the above, something hardly even discussed anymore. Just goes to show how far we've fallen as once the greatest nation mankind has every built, even greater than once great Babylon.
Lol, I can’t still remember when “made in Japan” was looked down on! Now, Japanese bearings, knives, cars, and other products are the apex of quality. Many U.S. made products are of high quality. Some not so much. Most of the components used to make our appliances here are procured overseas. Small manufactures here, especially family-owned, carry most of the load when it comes to maintaining our reputation for quality.
More worrisome, is our disappearing skill sets, and work ethic, across the entire nation among young workers.
Please stop blaming the US worker. Globalism is crushing them. Stop blaming the victim.
You playing your victim card, Joe CV?
In a way I am a victim. My wages, all IT workers, have been artificially suppressed for 30 years because the USA imports 180,000/yr foreign national indentured servants on H-1b. The are not green cards holders and they have no right to quit or negotiate anything. The are truly indentured.
Russians have had government intervention in every walk of life since communism. They've still not overcome years of what communism has done to them. You can see it in their products still. On the other hand, look at German and Japanese innovation and product quality and how far they've come after being destroyed. In defense of the Russians, they've been rid of communism for only about half the time.
What's happening to American workers is a concerted effort to take away our innovation, skills, and work ethic. And yes, even to instill a sense of victimization. To what end, I wonder?
Greed isn't always a bad thing but sometimes it is very destructive. There is NOTHING nastier than importing replacements for US workers from the 3rd world as indentured servants. Then the few that get citizenship vote Democrat 90-10. It is not the lowest thing but it is a low thing. You are low person because you make light of it. I'd spit you if given the chance.
PS: Stopping all wage killing immigration is not COMMUNISM you fukking idiot.
Nobody owes you a living, pal. Play the victim card all you want. Adios.
What a d1ckhead. So answer this for me. How much legal immigration is the right amount per year? Currently, the USA lets in over a million? Why not 5 million? Why not 10 million???? Why not 20 MILLION PER YEAR???
I’m sorry to hear you think your future, or earning potential, is in the hands of imported IT workers. It sucks, but you can take the bull by the horns, sort of speak, and get control of your future by getting creative, depending upon how much life you have left.
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Ah the ‘ol bootstraps nonsense. My entire career of some 30 years was IT related. What bull and what horns? I’m unemployed and unemployable in any field remotely related to my field of software engineering. People with 30 to 35 years experience can’t switch fields except at the very very bottom in minimum-wage starter jobs. Something 55 years can’t do. We are not 20.
So yes AS LONG AS the US prioritizes the Cheap Indian Labor Express for white-collar work, China for manufacturing work and the Mexican Labor Express for blue-collar work, yeah I’m owed a living.
Attitudes like the OP has is what turns the American worker off on both parties. Politicians, corporations and other just love their foreign worker and foreign goods too much.
But hey we can all be Jeff Bezos Amazon Fulfillment Center zombies.
d1ckhead...
“These last couple generations are really the first ever that lived hand to mouth as a normal course of existence.”
I never thought of that! You are very wise. You’re right, our ancestors put food away for the winter, they canned, dehydrated, planned ahead. They did as much as they could with the resources they had. And they use things like dried beans and rice oh, so they always knew they had something in the pantry they could eat.
And look what happens whenever there’s an announcement of a storm coming. Everybody panics, heads to the grocery stores, it’s like they don’t have a single thing in their kitchen. When the delivery trucks quit showing up at the grocery stores for a few weeks, they will all be in trouble.
Our grandparents and great grandparents canned and jarred everything because one bad year for crops could still spell starvation.
They prepped because bad things happen. (see tagline)
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