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In reply to the discussion: We romanticize manufacturing jobs when what we really miss are unions. [View all]Kall
(615 posts)are what really take a bat to unions' bargaining position, so my candidate support goes accordingly. And it's not looking good for Hillary Clinton, I've got to tell you.
Manufacturing jobs were just the first ones to be done away with in the name of Bill Clinton's New Economy, wherein China could have those "bad jobs" that weren't going to be needed anymore, because everyone in America was going to get advanced degrees and have the high-knowledge "good jobs" (as if that were ever a realistic proposition.) Well, now along with manufacturing, medical technology, IT, accounting, clerical jobs, etc. have no barrier to being shipped to the place with the lowest bid, and wages in America are kept low because that threat to workers is always there, and this Clinton/Bush-built boat is starting to look pretty leaky.