Why is the working class not protesting offshoring?

[LJ_Reloaded]

Biotech research is leaving, we've long lost the automobile innovation jobs, manufacturing is leaving...

The only reason these jobs are leaving is because of low wages.

Someone has to summon the balls to speak directly to the working class about this and force the defenders of offshoring to take account for the mess they've made of this economy.

 

[squarejohn]

Biotech research is leaving, we've long lost the automobile innovation jobs, manufacturing is leaving...

The only reason these jobs are leaving is because of low wages.

Someone has to summon the balls to speak directly to the working class about this and force the defenders of offshoring to take account for the mess they've made of this economy.

The reason is high corporate taxes and the ultra high cost of complying with government regulations.

The reason the BP oil is reaching the shore is because government regulations are in the way.

The oil that has reached the shore can't be cleaned up because of government regulations.

Whatever is wrong with the US is because of ridiculous, onerous, government regulations.

Instead of crying, "workers unite," try voting out of office, those legislators that vote for more and more regulatory power, in the numerous government bureaucracies.

 

[rgraham666]

The nail that stands up is the one that is hammered down.

As regards government regulations, here's a short look at what thing were like before the government interfered.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Amen.

LJ?

Sooner or later the bottom-feeders and middle-class will revolt. The peasants will likely loot and plunder; the middle-class will take back the government.

What the Fortune 500 want is America partitioned into franchises for its members, and virtual slavery for ordinary citizens.

 

[Katyusha]

The reason is high corporate taxes and the ultra high cost of complying with government regulations.

The reason the BP oil is reaching the shore is because government regulations are in the way.

The oil that has reached the shore can't be cleaned up because of government regulations.

Whatever is wrong with the US is because of ridiculous, onerous, government regulations.

Instead of crying, "workers unite," try voting out of office, those legislators that vote for more and more regulatory power, in the numerous government bureaucracies.

 

[bronzeage]

Biotech research is leaving, we've long lost the automobile innovation jobs, manufacturing is leaving...

The only reason these jobs are leaving is because of low wages.

Someone has to summon the balls to speak directly to the working class about this and force the defenders of offshoring to take account for the mess they've made of this economy.

Practice on me.

Speak directly to me and my working class friends. We are listening.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

You gotta work before you can be working class.

 

[bronzeage]

You gotta work before you can be working class.

I said, my working class friends.

I live off of inherited wealth.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

You gotta work before you can be working class.

8 million people who had jobs, lost them because of the subprime mess that the Republicans failed to deal with during their SIX YEARS of total Republican Congressional and White House dominance. A subprime mess that the Community Reinvestment Act had almost ZILCH to do with. An equal amount of working people lost their jobs due to offshoring of manufacturing, tech AND research.

You, sir, do not get the point. America WANTS JOBS. The poor want jobs. The middle class want jobs. Corporations are doing everything they can to keep the jobs away from us.

The poor, lazy person who doesn't want to work is a myth. If you believe I'm wrong about this, then post a job opening and see how many people show up.

What you also fail to understand is that the poor now includes the ranks of the former middle class. And today's surviving middle class fears being pulled down not by the poor, but by their managers and corporate bosses.

The revolution will be against the corporations. The French started it with kidnapping several corporate heads; it will end in some country, or in several, with them hanging from lamp posts.

 

[bronzeage]

Let's hear the speech to the unemployed working class that will bring them out into the streets.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Untwist your Betty Boop panties, Elwood! I'm on your side and agree with most of what you post. The GOP are thieves, and the Democrats are malevolent parasites who wanna eat the crops without contributing any effort. Both parties will continue to devour the commonwealth until there's little worth stealing and confiscating.

I'd be okay with giving America a good enema, and if Dubya and Dick are the first turds to wash out, so be it.

 

[xssve]

These are people who work in the oil an gas industry, and they have high testosterone levels - they don't care about anybody else, when their jobs start disappearing, then they'll demand something be done about it - at which point, they'll discover, like everyone else, that it's too little, too late.

Meantime, it's all "I got mine Jack".

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

These are people who work in the oil an gas industry, and they have high testosterone levels - they don't care about anybody else, when their jobs start disappearing, then they'll demand something be done about it - at which point, they'll discover, like everyone else, that it's too little, too late.

Meantime, it's all "I got mine Jack".

As long as America can still manage to muster a pair and do what needs to be done, it's never too late. At least not until China gets its own monstrous, America-sized navy.

If American consumers decide en masse to stop buying imported goods the world will get on its knees for us. But again... we need to grow a pair for that to happen.

 

[mynameisben]

If American consumers decide en masse to...

If golden coins flew out of my butt...

Same logic.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Americans wont do shit en masse, they'll act individually beneath the radar, but the effect will be the same. And the gubmint will swat at millions of ants and flies until the end comes.

At the end the gubmint will do as all deposed gubmints do, they'll steal all the gold at Fort Knox, move the army & navy to their Hawaii exile, and sell the rest of America to China, Russia, and Iran.

 

[JackLuis]

Americans wont do shit en masse, they'll act individually beneath the radar, but the effect will be the same. And the gubmint will swat at millions of ants and flies until the end comes.

At the end the gubmint will do as all deposed gubmints do, they'll steal all the gold at Fort Knox, move the army & navy to their Hawaii exile, and sell the rest of America to China, Russia, and Iran.

How insightful, JB But close to the eventuality.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Americans wont do shit en masse,

Tell that to the first black President this country has ever had.

If as many people who had the balls to vote for a non-white dude were to turn around and summon the balls to protest anything Made-in-China/India, we'd move the world.

they'll act individually beneath the radar, but the effect will be the same. And the gubmint will swat at millions of ants and flies until the end comes.

That's not a certainty, but it has been the case many times that a crisis has come to pass.

At the end the gubmint will do as all deposed gubmints do, they'll steal all the gold at Fort Knox, move the army & navy to their Hawaii exile, and sell the rest of America to China, Russia, and Iran.

Well I'll hand it to you on one thing - they've tried to do that.

Thing is, the Hawaiians don't want 'em there. There are places which we tourists were advised not to go in Hawaii...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

It finally dawned on me that the GOP is opposed to immigration reform cuz it will cork the slave labor keg. The GOP wants two things: to offshore every job possible, and to replace the rest of us with illegals.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

It finally dawned on me that the GOP is opposed to immigration reform cuz it will cork the slave labor keg. The GOP wants two things: to offshore every job possible, and to replace the rest of us with illegals.

And don't forget the tribalism. They've got people like you locked down solid. All they have to do is say "but the black man might get a job, too!" and you'll jerk Republican at the ballot box before you can say "oh, snap!"

Your reaction to Obama was proof of how effective that tactic is.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

LJ

When my ancestors ruled the South every Negro had a job, a roof over his head, ample food, clothing, and free medical care. They didnt even go to prison; most times a sound beating fixed the problem. Six months of the year they had almost no work at all other than chopping firewood, and tending their chickens and gardens.

So how is it that blacks are better off today?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

LJ

When my ancestors ruled the South every Negro had a job, a roof over his head, ample food, clothing, and free medical care. They didnt even go to prison; most times a sound beating fixed the problem. Six months of the year they had almost no work at all other than chopping firewood, and tending their chickens and gardens.

So how is it that blacks are better off today?

They're not having crosses burnt on their front yards, they're not being lynched by the KKK, and one is President of the United States. We have one or two black BILLIONAIRES now. How many were around back then?

Oh, the list goes on.