22nd February 2004, 4:29 PM
Weltall Wrote:Manufacturing jobs are being replaced by mechanics and robotics. Ideally, we should eliminate the idea of manufacturing jobs and persuade everyone to pursue white-collar jobs. I have never understood why creating more manufacturing jobs has been such a high priority. Obviously, it's a catch for the uneducated, which is a plus, but also, without manufacturing jobs, unions would have no power... that would be a plus too. Honestly, it would be best if there were a push to get more people into colleges and certification programs, and slowly eliminate the need for most manual labor in the manufacturing field.
Jobs are being outsourced, by the way, because business regulations and restrictions make hiring and employing people in America very costly. So while American workers have more money and higher quality of life, there are less that can work, because it costs employers so much, forcing them to outsource jobs overseas where labor is cheap and plentiful, and there aren't any regulations to get in the way. It's a catch-22, and honestly, there is no real solution for it. Republicans would attempt to fix that by relaxing regulations, which would probably be the most effective fix, but there is no way Democrats would allow that to happen.
Say that too the thousands of americans who got pink slips handed to them while their jobs got sent out to other countries.
It isnt just manufactoring that are going so are adminstrative jobs like call centres and tech jobs.For example my brothers job at hewlet packard would have most definently be shiped to india if it waisnt for the fact HP needed french technicians for quebec and the rest of canada, His centre use to do support for new england and new york united states.His Technical support centre got sliced in half and atleast 500 workers were let go,What Hp did was open a new large technical centre in India and shut down all the centres that were in the U.S and let India cover the U.S.A. Isnt that disturbing?Since Hp isnt alone all those hardware and software repair centres are being exported else where by everyone else.
manufactoring jobs have given people employment in the U.S for a very long time like the Ford assembly yard years, When all of it is gone what will be left to replace them? Mcdonalds?
Not everyone can be lawyers or docters and working at Walmart as you should know isnt enough to raise a family or get well off.
The people who benifit from this are those darn rich investors.You will never see top CEO jobs get shiped out as it probaily would save the companies millions.