Listening to Ed, I can't believe he's continuing the false meme

[Lionessa]

that US doesn't have skilled manufacturing related individuals looking for jobs. It's just that they don't feel their skills should be minimized to half or less of reasonable pay and bennies.

500,000 jobs in manufacturing but never mention the idea that the pay for those jobs are not what they were even 8 years ago. It's not good news when productivity expectations are so much higher than compensation commitments.

[teddy51]

1. But that's always been the plan of Corporations and the 1%'s. Outsource, kill Unions and

get the pay scales down. What did I just see yesterday, Exxon Profits @ Humongous amounts.

[Lionessa]

2. RE: Exxon profits, . . . and the admin doesn't think perhaps it should go after

these gas companies for gouging??? It seems like a pretty straight forward case of gouging, but alas we don't count.

[dejo1957]

3. I am 60 years old and the claims of "gouging" have been trumpeted for 59.99 of those years.

It isn't working.

[Lionessa]

4. It isn't a claim of gouging, it is gouging, but pols right and left are complicit.

[dejo1957]

6. Bottom line: gas is pretty cheap yet.

Gas would be cheap at $7 per gallon. I hope we can get it up there and stop this gas usage. We can ride bikes to work.

[teddy51]

7. Reality, compared to Europe our gas prices are extremely reasonable. However, justifying the

rapid increases in the past 11 or 12 years requires, I think some head stands. The profits by some of these oil companies is obscene at best.

[dejo1957]

8. So who cares about profits? Don't care if they double their money. Gas needs to go to $7 per gallon

Then people will walk or ride a bike.

[cyberswede]

9. ...because everybody lives within walking/biking distance to work, right?

We don't. Many people don't have public transportation available, either.

[dejo1957]

13. Move and stop being part of the problem. NT

[markpkessinger]

16. Like that's an option available to everyone...

Many of my family live in rural Pennsylvania. They have jobs and they own homes, and are generally doing okay. But, in an area where the nearest supermarket is 8 miles away, not having a car is not an option. "Move," you say. Mind you, they live in a part of the state where real estate values have been severely depressed for decades. The so-called "real estate bubble" managed to bypass them entirely. So fine, they sell their homes for whatever meager price they can get for them, and move to more expensive areas and have very little to show for it, and as a result be that much poorer. Your prescription is simplistic and clueless.

[arcane1]

10. Sadly, there are so many places where walking and biking can't be done

When I go to visit my parents, I need someone to drive me around even to grab a cup of coffee. No sidewalks, no crosswalks, and everything is at least a mile away. We built Suburbia around the automobile, and made it impossible to function without one

[dejo1957]

11. Move. You are part of the problem. NT

[arcane1]

17. I walk and use public transportation and don't own a car

Don't tell me I'm part of the problem. Get realistic.

[Honeycombe8]

18. What's wrong with walking and biking? That's a healthy way to live, not to mention

friendlier within a community (as long as you don't carry Skittles, I guess).

[teddy51]

12. No, because they are not paying there fare share of taxes on there profits. Obscene profits should

be taxed to an extreme that compares to Lower and middle class tax rates. In addition to this, these Corporations are hording their cash and cutting jobs where ever they can.

[dejo1957]

14. "Fair Share" turns voters off. Seriously.

This has been polled. People are sick of "fair share" without a definition of what "fair" is.

[teddy51]

15. I was just going to say, enjoy your stay on DU and he/she was gone, just like that. lol

I was going to alert, but was waiting for that person to make one more step into the deep water. Good job MIRT.

[arcane1]

5. It may not be working, but that doesn't mean it isn't true

Hell, getting the truth out rarely "works" in that sense