Boycott China!
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the United States has lost 3 million manufacturing jobs in the course of the last 5 years. But the National Association of Manufacturing says - manufacturing jobs in the country are going unfilled because U.S. workers are unskilled.
Max, a member of our local social club, feels that the American worker always gets the middle finger up their pipeline. But, this is not the first time that we the American people have gotten the middle finger up the pipeline.
About 12 years ago, when Bush Sr. went to visit China, the Chinese told Bush that the American people are too lazy and too fat. As a matter of fact, Bush Sr. felt so insulted at these remarks that he fainted at the dinner table.
In the meantime, Corporations of America are bringing all the jobs to China for cheap labor. In return, they bring those cheap products to America and then Europe.
I believe that we the American people, must pay more attention, to where the products they buy come from, despite the fact that we are fat, lazy and under skilled.
At the same time, American workers face an even bigger problem, an invasion of cheap labor from Mexico. Many politicians on Capitol Hill say that cheap labor is good for Americans. President Fox from Mexico, said that his people will do work, that even black people won't do.
In early January 2006, in a small city in upstate NY - a distribution center opened and they needed less than 400 people. According to their local newspaper, the Observer Dispatch who was monitoring the event, they claimed over 5000 Americans applied for those jobs.
Despite all this, do you know who is taking the heavy beating? Young Americans, especially the ones who go to college. They have a hard time finding a part time job to earn a little extra cash for personal things.
Seventy-seven percent of American parents are not able to support their family needs, because the economy has pushed them further into debt. The window of opportunity for young Americans doesn't look good. Within 13 years, young Americans will finish college, and will already be in debt from student loans. The good jobs will be out of the country, and if they try to take a cheap job, they must compete with millions of illegal immigrants, who enter into this country every year.
Many members of Congress and the Senate, on Capitol Hill, they are not able to fix the problem. Some Americans began to wonder if the Congress and the Senate have enough skills to fix this problem. If they lack the skills, then they are part of the problem. Boycott China!
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