Know what else burns my buttons?? THEY didnt even invent the technology that made us prosperous in the first place, nor did they invest in all the new machines or processes that took years and millions to develop!
And we just went over there, set up OUR machines, sent in OUR people to teach them how, they pay them slave wages compared to ours, put ourselves out of business all in the name of competition to wipe us out of the market!! we are selling them the rope to hang us, and we are making the rope ourselves!
And some here say we are whining?? As far as I am concerned, we are the only ones who are seeing this in the light that it is. My only guess is, the cheerleaders for this world economy are those who either never got laid off or havent yet because they entered the work force in such a unique field there is no present outsourcing yet.
The rest of us swallowed the line we were taught in the 1960's: That aviation was here to stay, that the US was the leader in manuacturing, that all these factories are here to stay because up her in CT we make jet engines, helicopters, and all the little mom and pop machine shops that make parts for Pratt and Hamilton and Kaman and Sikorsky will always be employed because there will always be newer jets and such, you live next to an international airport so you can always get a service job that pays well, move freight for Emery or TWA or whoever...
And none of that lasted past my 30th birthday, but that is what I was raised to believe, be trained to live under, direct my education towards...
And since then, due to such a rancid record of steady jobs de to all the temp jobs I had, I have never been able to get the BS, and have had 10 jobs in the last 3 years alone.
I cannot get a job washing dishes around here, did you know that? All the Mexicans are doing that. Not a joke, all the resturants hired Mexicans for $9 or $10, something I would really do if it meant a steady job long enough to get back into school and take a few more courses top get my BS, only, no one hires AS degreed engineers in CT anymore. There are too many BS degreed people looking for work, they dont need me.