| HappySqurriel said: On the topic of Obama, things will get worse under Obama because the core problem is still not being addressed; that the bottom 60% of adults of working age don't have the skills to be effective in our economy. When you have a world where a company can set up shop in China and hire unskilled workers for $1 to $2 per hour, why would they set up shop in the United States and hire similarly unskilled workers at $20 to $75 per hour (including benefits)? |
If you want to argue about this core problem, can you answer what percentage of new jobs created require advanced skills and more training? There may be a shortage of workers on the higher end, but exactly what is being created to absord 60% of the population and get them work? And the issue of why also goes back to ALL jobs, even skilled ones. Why hire American IT workers, when you can get Indian IT workers for a much lower rate. Is there ANY profession not impacted by globalization, unless the jobs can't be moved, because they are physically tied to a certain area?
