[gcruse]

"What did they do wrong to deserve to lose their jobs?"

Forgive me, but I would expect something like that at DU, not here. Capital flow isn't about what someone deserves to be doing with their lives. I began finding myself less employable
when I crossed fifty years of age. Now I am looking at an uplanned, early retirement. My skills never stopped improving yet I am forced out of my industry at the height of my abilities. To use words like 'wrong' and 'deserve' when dealing with marketplace realities is too far to the left for me.

[dtel]

"I began finding myself less employable when I crossed fifty years of age. Now I am looking at an uplanned, early retirement. My skills never stopped improving yet I am forced out of my industry at the height of my abilities. To use words like 'wrong' and 'deserve' when dealing with marketplace realities is too far to the left for me."

I too, find myself in a similar situation and I am in my mid 40's.
I worked very hard at what I did and was quite accomplished, hung a few skins on the wall as they say.
It doesn't matter now, I downsized and am raising some fine Longhorns now. It is a whole lot more fun and the animals are as intelligent or moreso, than 90% of the people I used to work with.

[nanny]

Baloney!!! When there is nothing to say - you can always fall back on name calling.

You are the one who began the blame game here. You have educated all of us why union jobs went overseas. Since many, many of these jobs are not union, we need to know just why non union jobs went overseas. How about I phrase it this way - fill in the blank to make the statement relevent to non-union jobs. "______________________________________ it becomes more productive to have it done out of the country. Then they wonder why their jobs go away. Funny how it works."

I repeat trashing the unions is just outdated and makes no sense anymore.