It's Too Late- They're Gone
What I am about to say is utterly useless in a country so corrupt that half the population has been convinced that global warming doesn't exist, and half the politicians have been bought off by corporations to ignore the inevitable, but that never stopped Green Eagle before, so here I go: The jobs are not coming back. Sure, if the country would adopt a realistic trade policy, penalizing places that rely on near slave labor and which ignore the most rudimentary environmental concerns, we can bring some manufacturing jobs back from third world countries. But due to technological advances and increased productivity, a lot of our jobs have been lost forever. This has been obviously coming, I believe, for decades, and yet as usual, right wing opposition has prevented any sort of meaningful response. I remember twenty or thirty years ago when people insisted that computerization would generate more jobs than it eliminated. I never understood how anyone could belie...