Where do Mr. and Mrs. Middle class find refuge? How do Joe and Jane middle class, avoid joining a low level unskilled servant class =(.
2007-02-13 10:15:47 · 9 answers · asked by Melle 3 in Social Science ➔ Economics
Joe middle class needs to adjust to a global economy instead of whining about it.
There are plenty of good paying job in the US for people with the right skills. Everyday "Joe middle class" whines is a day he waste when he could be improving his skills.
Those who buy into this Huey Long Populist nonsense will simply get left behind and it will be their own fault.
I'm proud of all the thumbs down I get.
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2007-02-13 10:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by Zak 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fortunately for Joe Middle Class, the vast majority of jobs cannot be outsourced, owing to the fact that most jobs require human presence and interaction. That's one of the great advantages of a service economy in terms of employment.
My only critique of what Allan says above is that the unemployment rate has not been steady for the past 20 years -- it has substantially declined. Despite any outsourcing, fewer people are unemployed and the labor market is tighter than is was two decades ago, in what appears to be a long-term secular trend.
In the 1980s a 6.5% to 7% unemployment rate was considered the sign of an economic boom. Today that would be a calamity. Just 10 years ago mainstream economists thought a rate below 6% was unsustainable. Nowadays people are conditioned to think 4.5% is too high.
2007-02-13 17:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by KevinStud99 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush changed the way the unemployment rate is calculated. The rate is really about the same as it was 10 yrs ago. Service sector is growing and we'll all be emptying bed pans or flipping burgers by the time Bush gets finished with us. Get educated or get used to it. The fox is in the henhouse. Read the book by Lou Dobbs and you'll see the real truth.
2007-02-16 01:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Don't know nothin' 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media is quick to point out that some jobs are being outsourced to China or India. But, please, please keep in mind that jobs are being outsourced to the US every day!
The financial services sector -- bank loans, bonds, and stocks -- is a growing sector and the US has been increasing its market share all along. Same with the accounting and pharmaceutical fields.
Note that the unemployment rate has been fairly steady over the past 20 years, and the average wage (even after inflation) is higher today than it was 10 years ago. Isn't that proof that the media is blowing things out of proportion?
2007-02-13 10:23:08 · answer #4 · answered by Allan 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It's no joke about outsourcing it's making it to where there is no middle class in America. There's only poor and ultra rich. Middle America has been poked from behind and we just let them do it.
2007-02-13 10:42:35 · answer #5 · answered by Extra Blue Note 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Joe middle class buy shares and retires earlier while others work for him
2007-02-13 10:40:58 · answer #6 · answered by joelle G 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Joe Middleclass gets an education and gets some pee on to do his job for him.
2007-02-13 11:45:27 · answer #7 · answered by Chazmeister 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
can't stop it now . republicans have passed to many laws in favor of outsourcing. so its now fixed. companies are strong arming the people by sending jobs else where WHILE DEMANDING that the people take less pay "or else" all while these same companies make RECORD profits.
2007-02-13 10:24:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They don't, they become serfs.
2007-02-13 10:23:46 · answer #9 · answered by mattzcoz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋