Dam JonL:
You were soooo close. Had me cheering you on there.. But at the very last, you validated all my hunches about your motives.
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I am NOT calling for class warfare, nor am I calling for stringing up the top 1%. I'm simply noting that the issues that YOU have raised - overseas cheap labor, and improved worker productivity due to technology - have benefitted the wealthy and ruling class, so how do we get them on board with changes that very likely will cause some reduction in their income and/or wealth?
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See that last bolded part means that you've bought into notion that the FIX involves taking from them. Like it's just recutting the pie. But if I'm right about all these legitimate external pressures on the US workforce, NONE of the fixes involves redistribution.
Look - just today J.C. Penney stock took a $1B INCREASE in net worth on the market. An ASTOUNDING 18% (i think).. WHY? Because they hired one measly Apple executive. THOUSANDS of intelligient investors believe this ONE GUY can turn the company around.
HOW MUCH JONL: is this guy worth in salary? (1% of that company increase would be $10M, if he lives up to the expectation, maybe $40M)
NONE of that was redistributed, but it illustrates what we VALUE today in business and politics and that is VISION and PERFORMANCE.
Disappointed that you haven't tackled the question I posed to you about how to make cheap foreign labor irrelevant. Because THAT would be the secret weapon to rebuilding America's job base. The hint is that it includes a Henry Ford style paradigm switch about how stuff is built and assembled and farmed. The very MATERIALS we use. The robotics part of the problem. The NANOTECHNOLOGY that goes with new materials. Genetic engineering for energy production, food production, healthcare. The more serious problem than losing our jobs to cheap labor abroad is that we REFUSE to step up to the challenge of doing the more difficult stuff than making tee shirts.
Our education system is also failing to produce the tech and science leadership to make that possible. A first priority if I were King would be to redesign education so that Virtual Schools could let kids learn at their own pace. (a development currently stymied by Jurassic Park era unions). So that the science/techies/leaders are not stymied and bored to death by "level outcomes" in the classrooms. That technology alone is GOLDEN. An honest teacher would recognize that.
The foreigners are not only eating our jobs.
They are taking our slots in our graduate schools!!! Soon they won't need OUR schools either.
And you worry about how you're gonna "take" from the ones who are TRYING to shift our industries to compete in this mess? Is that REALLY your PRIME concern? BTW: anyone who just casually drops "the ruling class" into a conversion maybe protests a little too much about getting pegged.. Just a hint..
