"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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| I agree. Being educated isn't the answer, not in the sense of formal
| education. What I'm talking about is preparing one's self to make a
living.
| It need not be with a college degree, although it would be nice to have
one.
| How about learning a skill, then working for a reasonable fee? Instead,
we
| have, in many instances, fools that have dropped out of high school, no
| qualifications of any kind, taking jobs that can be filled by most anyone
| off the street, then demanding (and often getting) wages far and away
beyond
| value. They want a "living wage", but didn't do anything to prepare
| themselves to earn one. For this, we are now paying the price of
reality.
| Business will stand still for such abuse only so long. Eventually, as I
| stated above, it tips over because it's top heavy. It's safe to say
it's
| tipped over, folks. The Chinese and Indians have taken the jobs. They're
| willing to work for modest pay. We're not. It never ceases to amaze me
| that many American workers would rather have no job, than one with pay in
| keeping with one's qualifications.

Well said! It just came to me that other automotive industries have
gone this route before, and we missed the lesson here in the States. The
British tried to prop up their crummy automotive industry and they're still
trying, but not before a number of the makers failed miserably, which in the
long run was a good thing. For the record, I have a few British cars in the
driveway. The rest of Europe wasn't immune from that, either, but countries
more socialist than ours went to great lengths getting the taxpayers to prop
up a dead horse that should have been buried long before the stench went
away.