I maintain the problem in this country is lack of regulation, a government which pimps out its people to runaway corporate monstrosities. Corporations have all the control and they use and dispose of human beings as they see fit.

We have been told the only way is a global economy, it's really too complex for us simpletons to get it, but for real honest and truly it benefits all of us to globalize the economy. It's good for americans to allow companies to set up shop in countries with abominable standards of living and human rights, where these corporations can pay people bullshit for the same labor.

Americans cant find jobs because companies ARE NOT HIRING AMERICANS.
If you physically produce products, the manufacturing is in some third world shithole hiring people who they can pay pennies, and merely fire when lose a hand during the manufacturing process.
If you produce a skilled service, then immigrants from the third world have immigrated here and are now working for less money, with less benefits, while you sit around with your thumb up your ass holding out for a job where you are treated like a human being. Not likely when hatians will work for nothing and tolerate standards of living which are far below that of americans.

This old man pining away about an enterprising productive spirit absent in todays young people as the cause of the current employment problem... sounds just like an old man pining away, full of utter shit. People in his generation found it easier to find work, because people in his generation didn't have to compete with hatians working for much less in terms of monetary compensation benefits or respect. People in his generation got educated, and competed only against americans, and there were jobs in america then.

There is a reason the media (which is to say, the government/rich/corporate class) has ridiculed and satirized to unspeakability the stereotype of the disgruntled american worker who is weary of immigrants and corporations setting up manufacturing in third world dumpsters. The reason this line of thought has become a joke is because it is infuriatingly correct, and the parasite class depends on us never waking up and figuring that out.

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