Reply #152: Baloney, Stuttgart77.

[JDPriestly]

I know a guy who became a master carpenter at an extremely young age. He learned his trade from his German father who was one of a long line of wagon makers. Father and son worked together in the same high-class furniture factory -- until the factory owner sold out to hire less qualified, but cheaper labor and moved the whole manufacturing operation.

Now, some far less qualified employee is making furniture and my friend, the master carpenter, is making do with a sales job. What a waste of talent and skill. But the boss was greedy. That is what has happened to America. That is what has happened to American jobs.

Americans love to work and work harder than people in other countries. But the disparity between the wealthy and the poor, and the effect that disparity has on the distribution and enjoyment of power and decision-making authority is just too great. It is because the working people and the poor are so utterly and hopelessly lacking power -- either political or economic -- that people want their children to become paper-pushers at all cost.

I have a number of friends with academic degrees who prefer working with their hands and have handyman businesses rather than 9-5 office or tiring teaching jobs.

A lot of the outsourcing and joblessness in the US have more to do with currency manipulation than anything else.