It's true we are enduring trying economic times. The fact that filling up your car for under $4 a gallon now seems a bargain only shows how painfully expensive energy has become. The collapse of the housing bubble has cost homeowners hundreds of billions in home equity. These troubles have weighed down the economy, and job losses have mounted.
But the ups and downs of the business cycle do not mean the American dream has died. The U.S. economy has always experienced highs and lows. Today's economic woes are nothing compared to the stagflation of the 1970s. Those problems didn't herald an end to the American dream, and neither will our current ones.
Quite the contrary: Today's economy gives workers more opportunities to advance than a generation ago. Good jobs are actually more available today than in the past.
This is largely because of technological changes that have transformed the American workplace. Machines have automated many rote, repetitive tasks formerly done by hand. Bad science fiction aside, however, machines can't think for people. Brains trump brawn, and jobs are moving from the assembly line into the office.
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"Good jobs are actually more available today than in the past"?
Seriously??!!
Tell that to the 6.1% of "officially"(insert your own sarcasm here) unemployed in this country. I'm thinking they wouldn't mind doing some of those " rote, repetative tasks" for $9 or $10.00 an hour.
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Wait a minute POA!
Good jobs ARE available these days!
Our highest paying newfangledest bestest ever jobs too!
Right next door - in
China,
Taiwan,
India,
Phillipines,
Mexico,
South Americaand pretty well everywhere else Americans don't live.
We've Privatized them.
Clever, or what?
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wtf...I work in a factory here in Dayton, OH, and my job is going to Mexico, the land free of labor laws, so that my company executives can make triple the money their making off of my union, healthcare having a**! I go to school, and I'm also trying to live. Dayton (so happen the place John McCain introduce the world to Sarah Palin), is one of the fastest dying cities in Ohio. The GM plant closed, the Delphi plants closed, and now the Chrysler plant where I work is about to shut it's door. Not everyone is able to go to school, due to personal reasons so don't judge these people. So, what's going to happen if this continues is people being one or the other, very fithy rich or extremely poor in this country. Key point, no one has seen a raise and companies don't come with benefits no more, and everything as simple as bread and milk have gone up....you tell me how we are going to get out of this one?
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I wanted to know more about the author, James Sherk, and The Heritage Foundation, a conservative "think tank".
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We have to restore tariffs. Charge American companies double, triple when they try to bring their crap in.
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- Marilynn_Murray
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Working People might want to think hard before they purchase Coors Beer.
Heritage Foundation
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The Heritage Foundation is an American conservative think tank.[1][2] Founded in 1973, it is based in Washington, D.C., in the United States.Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."[1]
The Heritage Foundation's initial funding came from political conservative Joseph Coors, co-owner of the Coors Brewing Company.[3] Funding from Coors was later augmented by financial support from billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.
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That is totally true, except that the American population is lagging behind the world in basic education and higher education, they are also lagging in languages in a globalized world. So yes they may come out of the Brown into the unknown or maybe wall mart because they do not have the skills to achieve those goals.
Americans have enjoy a free ride for a long time, but the world learned and is getting ahead.
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Welcome to third world status if we allow them to do it to us free riders.
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- Marilynn_Murray
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This guy is Bush's and McCain's answer to the Brother Grimm.
Fairy Tales all.
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- Inofuilwell
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