08-21-2010, 01:08 PM
In the fall of 1940, a group of industrial designers, artists, craftsmen, manufacturers, etc. formed a group called "The American Way."
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Its goal was to encourage an "American way of marketing and living," - in other words - to have Americans buy products made in America by Americans.
We must arrive at a solution to the effects of globalization and the challenges that foreign workers are presenting to us in terms of our wages and benefits.
We need to develop a comprehensive program to gradually bring back our factories and manufacturing jobs, and we MUST accept the fact that not every American can work in swanky air-conditioned offices, dressed-up, pushing buttons on a computer and getting top level salaries.[/size]
Ditches need to be dug, toilets need to be cleaned, shelves need to be stocked, floors need to be scrubbed, packages need to be delivered, etc. These jobs must be returned to American high school and college students, legal immigrants seeking citizenship, etc., who at one time did these jobs, and many more similar to them, in pre-1970 America. This was before illegal immigrants poured into this nation and took those jobs without paying taxes, and overburdened our school and hospital systems.
While many illegal immigrants do have it tough, until factories and jobs return, employing American citizens making American products, we will never get out of this situation. In short, this country and our elected officials MUST develop a new "American Way."
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Its goal was to encourage an "American way of marketing and living," - in other words - to have Americans buy products made in America by Americans.
We must arrive at a solution to the effects of globalization and the challenges that foreign workers are presenting to us in terms of our wages and benefits.
We need to develop a comprehensive program to gradually bring back our factories and manufacturing jobs, and we MUST accept the fact that not every American can work in swanky air-conditioned offices, dressed-up, pushing buttons on a computer and getting top level salaries.[/size]
Ditches need to be dug, toilets need to be cleaned, shelves need to be stocked, floors need to be scrubbed, packages need to be delivered, etc. These jobs must be returned to American high school and college students, legal immigrants seeking citizenship, etc., who at one time did these jobs, and many more similar to them, in pre-1970 America. This was before illegal immigrants poured into this nation and took those jobs without paying taxes, and overburdened our school and hospital systems.
While many illegal immigrants do have it tough, until factories and jobs return, employing American citizens making American products, we will never get out of this situation. In short, this country and our elected officials MUST develop a new "American Way."