Oh, the pain, the paaaiiinnn. The pain of change. Too funny.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
If you go back in history to the beginning of organized civilization you will find then, as now, the privileged few, and the masses. You had lands with kings and nobles, and then the peasants. Modern civilization as we know it today was build on the foundation of the Romans and Greeks, who built their societies largely on the slave-state. Indeed, Aristotle and many others believed not only in a natural inequality amongst humans, but that many people were natural born slaves.
Modern society is no different. We have the privileged few, and the masses. One could certainly argue that the lower class, the minimum wage earners and others, are to a degree the modern-day equivalent of the ancient slaves, where people aspire no higher than where they are at present, and indeed, could not rise to a higher level even if they wanted to, for lack of ability, intelligence, knowledge and drive, and, to be sure, a lack of opportunity.
There have always been the privileged, and the not-so privileged, and there always will be. This is not news. Just like the poor. There have always been poor, and there always will be, regardless of how much money you throw at them. In fact history has proven that the more money you give to the poor, the more poor there are. Funny, that.
So, now, because of modern technology and a rapidly changing world, the US has a choice to make. We can continue doing the same things we have been for the last 40 years and sit back, watch and wait, to see how things unfold, or we can take steps to ensure that the country as a whole can prosper with security.
People will lose their jobs, and jobs will move to Mexico and overseas. People will get other jobs, different jobs. The unemployment rate and the available workforce rate in this country has remained relatively stead throughout. It's not like the makers of manual typewriters, buggy whips and Tucker automobiles are incapable of other kinds of work. They just do different work now. The changes that are likely to occur will not be good for some people, but they will not even effect many others in their daily life at all. Mexican trucks delivering goods into the US and Canada might not be good for Billy Joe Bob the trucker, but for Jiminny Billy Bob the HVAC repair guy in Paducah, he's not gonna care much one way or the other.
It's simply economics, and if I owned a company I'd be inclined to do the same thing. If I could make my widgets for a cost of $10 or a cost of $40, I'm gonna go with the lower cost.
Here's a hypothetical for ya. All other things being equal, included loaded miles per year, you're made an offer where you can have all of your loads in the future at $1.50 per mile, or at $6 per mile. Which do you choose? Not so fast. In order to pay the $6 per mile contract, Alice the dispatcher will lose her job.
That's a tough call. Scribble, scribble, scribble, punch, punch, punch, crunch, crunch, crunch. "Sorry Alice, I just can't give up an extra $4.50 a mile out of my pocket to save your job. It's not my job to save your job. It's my job to make as much money and be as profitable as possible."
Yet that's precisely what many people are wanting the companies who move their manufacturing plants to do. It's not their job to provide, save and secure jobs for people. It's their job to make and sell widgets as profitably as possible.
Incidentally, the liberals among us who "ridicule" and "trivialize" do so because we refuse to allow others to make up our minds for us. We study intently both side of the issues, and take most everything with a grain of salt, facts and speudo-facts included, because all too often the speudo-facts turn out to be more accurate than the factually accurate lies we are given. Other times, not so much. Most often, the real truth is to be found somewhere in the middle, underneath all the wool. Also, some of the liberals among us ain't all that liberal. Some of the liberals among us, for example, wouldn't vote for Pat Buchanan because he's not far enough to the right.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
If you go back in history to the beginning of organized civilization you will find then, as now, the privileged few, and the masses. You had lands with kings and nobles, and then the peasants. Modern civilization as we know it today was build on the foundation of the Romans and Greeks, who built their societies largely on the slave-state. Indeed, Aristotle and many others believed not only in a natural inequality amongst humans, but that many people were natural born slaves.
Modern society is no different. We have the privileged few, and the masses. One could certainly argue that the lower class, the minimum wage earners and others, are to a degree the modern-day equivalent of the ancient slaves, where people aspire no higher than where they are at present, and indeed, could not rise to a higher level even if they wanted to, for lack of ability, intelligence, knowledge and drive, and, to be sure, a lack of opportunity.
There have always been the privileged, and the not-so privileged, and there always will be. This is not news. Just like the poor. There have always been poor, and there always will be, regardless of how much money you throw at them. In fact history has proven that the more money you give to the poor, the more poor there are. Funny, that.
So, now, because of modern technology and a rapidly changing world, the US has a choice to make. We can continue doing the same things we have been for the last 40 years and sit back, watch and wait, to see how things unfold, or we can take steps to ensure that the country as a whole can prosper with security.
People will lose their jobs, and jobs will move to Mexico and overseas. People will get other jobs, different jobs. The unemployment rate and the available workforce rate in this country has remained relatively stead throughout. It's not like the makers of manual typewriters, buggy whips and Tucker automobiles are incapable of other kinds of work. They just do different work now. The changes that are likely to occur will not be good for some people, but they will not even effect many others in their daily life at all. Mexican trucks delivering goods into the US and Canada might not be good for Billy Joe Bob the trucker, but for Jiminny Billy Bob the HVAC repair guy in Paducah, he's not gonna care much one way or the other.
It's simply economics, and if I owned a company I'd be inclined to do the same thing. If I could make my widgets for a cost of $10 or a cost of $40, I'm gonna go with the lower cost.
Here's a hypothetical for ya. All other things being equal, included loaded miles per year, you're made an offer where you can have all of your loads in the future at $1.50 per mile, or at $6 per mile. Which do you choose? Not so fast. In order to pay the $6 per mile contract, Alice the dispatcher will lose her job.
That's a tough call. Scribble, scribble, scribble, punch, punch, punch, crunch, crunch, crunch. "Sorry Alice, I just can't give up an extra $4.50 a mile out of my pocket to save your job. It's not my job to save your job. It's my job to make as much money and be as profitable as possible."
Yet that's precisely what many people are wanting the companies who move their manufacturing plants to do. It's not their job to provide, save and secure jobs for people. It's their job to make and sell widgets as profitably as possible.
Incidentally, the liberals among us who "ridicule" and "trivialize" do so because we refuse to allow others to make up our minds for us. We study intently both side of the issues, and take most everything with a grain of salt, facts and speudo-facts included, because all too often the speudo-facts turn out to be more accurate than the factually accurate lies we are given. Other times, not so much. Most often, the real truth is to be found somewhere in the middle, underneath all the wool. Also, some of the liberals among us ain't all that liberal. Some of the liberals among us, for example, wouldn't vote for Pat Buchanan because he's not far enough to the right.
