Why are you so *angry*, Manny?

[truedelphi]

187. Although it is sad that so many that are well educated are just getting by,

it is important to realize that the reason that this nation is in the pickle it is in is precisely because people who had that degree didn't care one bit when the outsourcing began. So when the textile factories closed down in the South, or when the automobiles were no longer made in Detroit, (along with with all the other vestiges of that industry occurring everywhere from Akron Ohio to Richmond calif.) no one with that engineering degree cared one bit.

Back in the 1980's, I lived in Silicon Valley when the first wave of outsourcing occurred. And so many folks were all, "Well if you didn't get a college education, what can ya expect? Now if that schmuck who has been working in the textile factory had just gone to school and become an engineer like me, they wouldn't be crying in their beer right now."

By the late eighties, the same remarks were made about the people working in the steel mills, and the people building cars.

No one realized the importance of solidarity of each group of workers in one career with each group of workers inside another. At least, most people didn't "get it" until it was too late.

So the One Percent took the outsourcing one small step at a time. Without solidarity, America's middle class was about to go the route of the dodo bird. Finally in the early 1990's, the programmers and data entry folks started realizing that with the way computers could now operate, the people at the top didn't need an American who demands over $ 20 an hour when they can pay someone in India 82 cents for that same hour.

And then and only then did those same programmers and engineers realize that outsourcing is not a good things.