Well put, Jim. ************ "Getting education is fine. But, it is not a national strategy to increase wages. If you look actually at the facts, the top four jobs in the past year accounting for over 14 million jobs in that period paid less than $10 an hour. And if you scan the chart you can see that the median wage of the majority of those occupations is under $30K a year.
Which brings me to the second point. The decline in wages is directly tied to the failed strategy of so-called "free trade". And it is not by chance that the people who embraced the "workers are too stupid and they need to be smarter if they want to earn decent living" were the same people--Bill Clinton and Robert Reich, chief among them--who shoved NAFTA down the throats of the American people." Mike B) *********************************************************************** "With the seizing of the means of production by society production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer." Engels http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
