>The theory... if there was full employment there would be competition for employees, driving up salaries, which is decidedly not good for the corporation.

So if it weren't for the evil corporations employment rate would be 100%? Damn those corporations....

>On the news tonight they were bemoaning that there are plenty of jobs in New Orleans but nobody to fill them. Which suggests that the poor blacks of NO weren't unemployed but simply got poor by being underpaid. Look at seasonal fruit pickers (a euphemism for illegal immigrants). The industry would be dead without them and they promote the idea that these people do work Americans won't do. They forget to add ...for the wages we pay.

>As for most of the blame to the individual, I say that's the attitude that's been drummed into us and its a falsehood TODAY.

If a person doesn't have enough pride/drive/will/desire to make an effort to better himself, it's hard for me to feel sorry for them. Some how I think this is PARTLY the reason why some companies are looking over seas. They need people whot are eager to work and hungry to learn... that's becoming more difficult to find here in the US. Too many people think they're entitle to a "good" life.

When I talk to teens today, I don't get the sense that they care about anything except for sex and music and more sex... for the most part. Oh yeah, they complain a lot too.


>It's the individual's fault when the manufacturing job he's been working at successfully for 20 years is packed up and moved to China?... It's the individual's fault when wages and benefits are cut while hours are increased, making it tough to make ends meet anymore?... It's the individual's fault when corporations suck so much of local/state tax monies that schools suffer and roads suffer and police services suffer and fire services suffer and...?
When we're all selling used WalMart goods to each other on e-Bay you'll see what I'm talking about.

I guess we're all doomed then. Why bother to get out of bed in the morning.
Sooner or later, this is all coming to and end, right? :)

Hasn't it always been that way? You have to be able to adjust and learn new tricks to stay alive? Should we all just "pack it in" and blame the government and the big corporation and feel sorry for ourselves?

I'll see you on www.ebay.com :)