Bring the jobs back home.

[Jack Sprat]

It has always been foolish to assume that our U.S. citizens could thrive on a service sector economy. The wheels have been coming off one at a time over the years since the production jobs have been sent abroad. With average tuition costs beginning at some $2500 at 2 year colleges, it has always been unrealistic to believe most of our children would attend college without taking out loans that were unaffordable, too. Nor was it reasonable to expect that those kids who have struggled to even get a high school diploma would eventually land in an institution of higher learning.

The class war was not started by the great middle class of yesteryear. It was started by those who wanted an appreciable separation between themselves and the rest of society. It was started by those who did not want their neighbors to escape poverty, because that meant a risk to their privileged status. These same people resent the last holdouts of the middle class. They resent union jobs that pay 30 or 40K a year. They insist that union wages are the cause of off shoring of manufacturing. Yet, somehow the sky is the limit for their world.

So, I have a compromise solution. Since the high cost of labor is their complaint, limit all American wage earners to 99K a year. Doctors, lawyers, politicians, CEOs, managers, business owners, investors, EVERYBODY. If you make more than 99K or reach 6 figure incomes, then 90% taxation kicks in and is returned to the country whose flag everyone supposedly loves, for the revenues so badly needed to upgrade our standard of life. If high wages have been the problem, then let's attack the core of the problem. High wages of the white collar world of the privileged classes are WAY over the top. Nobody can argue with that and be serious. Even entertainers and athletes are compensated beyond the obscene. Wealth in this country has become obscene. The blue collar America that still exists makes up less than 7% of the population now. The blame goes to the white collar world, whose only concern was providing high profits for investors, who never lifted a finger except to call their broker. These are the people who started the class war and whom still wage it to this day. By the way, it's just my opinion. No links.

[JDPriestly]

1. Thanks. That would be a good way to restart the economy.

[sufrommich]

2. Well said. k&r

[Thickasabrick]

3. Right on. We need to make stuff. Whatever happened to not doing

business with companies from countries who had horrible human rights records. Do we just not give a shit any more?

I'm also pro-protectionism - I'm sick of those assholes saying....oh no, you don't want that. Fuck yes I do.

[jtrockville]

4. Brilliant. A very elegant solution.