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[HiLo]

Thanks John, you are always the source of reason here.

[Kachina624]

On 5/16/2015 minkbunny said:

The last comment is very true. We have a client who is a recruiter for a welding institute - they train them then place them. The jobs start at about $60,000 a year. Quite a good salary around here.

He said that they cannot recruit because of the reasons mentioned,

the applicant either cannot pass the drug test or have a felony conviction on their record.

It could also be the potential students are unwilling to incur the huge debt from student loans they have when they attend these propritorary schools. Most will spend many of their productive years just paying off huge debts.

[terrier3]

On 5/16/2015 hckynut said:

We are no longer a manufacturing nation because of businesses, both big and small, being over regulated. Throw in the highest tax rate in the global business world, and we have what any mathematician can easily figure out the results. I worked 33 years in a manufacturing plant which at one time had 7,500 workers. That building is now sitting idle and has been for many years now.

The company? Hey, it is doing fine(AT&T), just in other countries. I had many jobs starting at age 8, and was never hired by anyone that was poor. If an owner, with money, can efficiently run a more profitable business elsewhere, why run it here? Major corporations have shareholders to please. Everyone ask themselves: "if you had a lot of shares would you like to see their value shrink"? I don't think so!

If by "over regulated", you mean that people want to be paid more than $4 a DAY, then yes, we are over regulated in the USA and proud of it.

International businesses manufacture where they can get the lowest prices.

Even China is now considered too expensive for some of these companies. Chinese workers have been unionizing for better wages, better safety and better hours, so the work has been moving to places like Vietnam and Afghanistan.

First jobs left unionized Northeast for the "right to work" states in the South. Then they moved to Mexico....finally to Communist countries like China, where people have very little say in their working conditions. But even the leaders there have seen the effects of pollution and low worker productivity due to 70+ hour work weeks.

People everywhere need to organize and stop being used as pawns for ever increasing profits.