"Can't let the happen, we're Luddites..."
There sure are a lot of them at FR lately. "America was built of our strong industry!" Blah blah blah.
A nation of auto workers.
America was built on COMMERCE. The industrial revolution is over, and only boomed because of war. It COST us more than it made us.
Future industry will never be labor intensive as it was, those factories have died out for good reason, they can't compete. Those that refuse to automate or can't because of UNIONS, die as they deserve to.
They are plenty of labor jobs around, the problem is Americans don't want to work at them. Try finding a crew to build houses. Try find construction workers. These places HAVE to use immigrant workers because Americans don't want those jobs. Americans expect to piddle around in collage for a good 5-7 years, taking philosophy courses, then expect to be given a job as Co. of a large corporation.
Our unemployment rate is low, and our economy is doing well compared to every other around the world. We've been hearing this chicken little doom and gloom ever since Bush took office. Sorry RATS, it's just not going to happen no matter how many times to keep telling yourself the sky is falling.