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Jobs are to industrial society what farms were to agrarian times: (0.00 / 0)

They are a means of acquiring the currency needed to purchase food, for example.

You just don't ship them overseas!

We've had many discussions concerning this over the past decade; the conclusion was that circa 1968 Nixonians convinced blue-collar, unionized white men that humbling blacks, browns, intellectuals, women, etc. was more important than their economic security.

They agreed to be lent money as a substitute for wages. They agreed to have their jobs and their children's jobs shipped first to the South, then to Mexico, then to India and China.

They endorsed this biennially all the way up to 2006.

Ask them how they feel about it now.

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by: Paul Goodman @ Tue May 26, 2009 at 14:40:52 PM CDT