I would agree. But over the last decade...minimum wage has barely moved. The old jobs that you’d take after a year or two at some fast-food joint? They are gone. The small industry jobs that existed in the 1980s and 1990s...gone to China. There’s no exit now if you are fast-food engaged.
We kinda screwed up once we allowed a huge amount of US industry to pack and leave the country.
Yes, there is. The democrat party though has successfully killed many people's ability to dream big on the American dream. Between policies and making the lower classes dependent they literally don't know how to make their dreams happen. All they have is "hope and change," and that doesn't create jobs.
With reasonable respect for libery and individual freedom, what do you imagine would be the mechanism for keeping those jobs here?
“We kinda screwed up once we allowed a huge amount of US industry to pack and leave the country.”
Many off those industries were driven out by high taxes, over regulation and high wages...the exact same thing that’s happening to Kalifornia. And, considering the huge bullseye the current administration has painted on business’s back...I don’t blame them if they never come back.