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The Big Bad Wolf.
besides the fact the "half the country is dependent on government" canard. (I would argue the whole country is, otherwise, we'd all be riding round like a Mad Max movie.)
I agree, we have too many people dependent on government.
but whose fault is that.
The Democrats for offering help, or the Republicans for supporting economic policies that required it?
I would like to see every able bodied American have a renumerative job and be paying taxes.
We actually got close to that in the 1990's, and the wealthy couldn't get BUsh in fast enough to fuck that up. I mean, we actually have to PAY them.
This can't be repeated more often.
During the Clinton administration plenty of jobs, especially in the tech sector, were created.
During the Bush administration, those jobs were outsourced..to the cheers of conservatives.
The outsourcing really did start under Clinton. My first encounter with a "How may I provide you excelent customer service" Indian Accent was in 1999, I believe.
I dropped that service the next day.
Until we demand these companies hire Americans, we should get what we expect.
Yeah..well sure they did. But it was mainly help desk jobs..that were possible because of the vast improvements in telecommunications that happened under the Clinton administration. We were still in a "brave new world" back then. Who knew that companies were going to make use of those new technologies to outsource.
However, that went into overdrive during the Bush administration. Who factories were packed up and shipped overseas..along with the tech jobs.
It would have been easy enough to change the tax code to ward that off.