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4. Certainly True

Having forums at colleges is certainly true. Today's political decisions will have the most effect on their generation. Most people are totally ignorant of labor and employment laws. They are also ignorant of how much deep structural damage has been done to the labor and employment sectors in the last 30 years of assault.

Unless we restore the social contract with the employer sector. Unless we get back to the idea that continuity of income and continuity of employment is valuable. Unless we understand how important job security is and seniority on the job is, it will be very difficult for a person to economically thrive over a 40 or 50 year period. The working public has been sold a false bill of goods about the "ownership society". Going from job to job over the decades of a career will end up with many workers being out of the work force at a decent job by the time they are 45.

The real agenda in this "new economy" is to move to a labor environment where almost all jobs are contract jobs or subcontract jobs. One can see this trend growing rapidly in the employment sector. Employers love contracts because they can escape virtually all taxes and expenses. And they can fix pay at a low rate.

The younger generation needs to understand their fate unless they get active and push for a change in policy that will help them live fruitful lives. Capitalism as it is being practiced now is a failure in that it cannot and will not deliver livable wage jobs for most of the workers in the US and worldwide.