The Search for Cheap Labor is The New Bubonic Plague

[Omaha Steve]

http://thesop.org/opinion/2010/01/24/the-search-for-cheap-labor-is-the-new-bubonic-plague

Published: January 24th, 2010 18:53 EST

The Search for Cheap Labor is The New Bubonic Plague

By Djelloul (Del) Marbrook (Editor/Mentor)

Made in the USA "remember that reassuring label? It`s as dead as the Edsel, and yet there is an eerie silence across the land, from Washington to Anchorage, about how Americans are going to prosper without a manufacturing sector.

Even Taiwan seeks cheaper labor in China. The quest for cheap labor is the Black Death of the 21st Century. But who is searching for a vaccine? How are we going to diversify our economy to create jobs when nobody wants to pay decent wages or benefits? We used to take false comfort in the notion that manufacturing would be supplanted by a booming service industry, but it`s booming in India. Is Congress too busy to have this debate?

About that housing market. No wonder the big heads on television keep saying that there won`t be a recovery until the housing market recovers. It`s as good an excuse as any for not talking about the real problem, which is that there is no way in hell a housing market recovery is going to get us out of this fix.

Do the big heads really think we can hire enough electricians, carpenters, excavators, landscapers, surveyors, painters, installers, predatory lenders, and the rest of the housing crew to claw our way back to a decent standard of living for the middle class? Are they kidding?

Who is going to afford these houses? All the people out of work because their jobs have been exported? All the people paid minimum wages by WalMart and Dunkin` Donuts? Where is our common sense that we listen to these patsies of the corporados day after day?

The only person I know of who is making any sense these days is Ron Paul, the Texas Congressman. Listen to him.

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