Well all righty then...

[cornermouse]

Daniel Mote says (more or less) that since they can hire 11 engineers there for the cost of one engineer here, us little folk need to find a way to work a little harder, get squeezed a little more and business needs to invent a way for one person to do the work of 11 in order to retain the jobs. I wonder if the 10 who lose their jobs so that 1 of their coworkers can retain their job, will feel the properly expected gratitude that the job has remained on American soil? :shrug:

This guy is the President of a university? Why do I suspect that whatever his salary, he's highly overpaid?

[mrcheerful]

1. I kind of liked his prediction that new high paying jobs are on the

horizon. Caller asked where are these high paying jobs he's talking about and Mote said he didn't know because those jobs weren't created yet. Just more higher education is the key to americas problems drivel. They keep saying the tired old thing to get higher enrollment so the educators keep getting their pay. When all businesses will be off shore in the next 3 years, these so called high paying jobs won't be here.

[ktlyon]

2. This is a big problem with capitalism

we need to bring labor back and provide government supports, tariffs, or something. Corporations have no loyalty to our country just to profits. American corporations are selling us out. If we don't have good jobs, we don't have a good economy.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. You are so spot on.

Our country lives and breathes today for one thing.

Profit.

Fuck the rest of us.

[acmavm]

4. Why doesn't anyone ever just say that the very reason American's need

so much money to live is so that we can afford the very crap that 'American' companies manufacture? Or to be able to have a roof over our heads? Or to be able to buy the food (that is frighteningly becoming a commodity being totally corporate controlled)? Or to be able to heat our homes? Because part of why it takes Americans so much to live is because they're so fucking greedy and gouge us so bad.

Medical care is one damn good example. Every frigging doctor in the world now feels the need to have expensive equipment on site. Has to have the latest in technology. Can't send it to a lab anymore, has to spend thousands and thousands himself. Which, I know this to be true, means that they have to run tests that are totally unnecessary 'to find out what might be wrong'. Gotta use that equipment. And they've also become partners/owners in hospitals and in-patient clinics.

Colleges really piss me off. Especially some of the bigger Ivy league schools. This was a scandal just a few years ago. They hold on to money that was given to them for scholarships. They just bank the shit.

Food? Well, it sure as fuck ain't your family farmer that's making all these big buck is most cases. It's been taken over by the corporate farmer. He can mass produce and in a lot of cases process whatever it is he produces.

Or the packing plants who process the meat? They hire cheap immigrant labor, don't pay shit for the product, and then charge the grocer and arm and a leg for the finished product.

Sorry if I sound a little incoherent right now but I am angry. These arrogant bastards make is sound like our greediness is what is fueliing this shit. NO IT IS NOT. THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE JUST WANT ENOUGH TO SURVIVE.

Stupid bastard, professionals deserve to earn decent money just like his delusional ass does. His stupid self-serving I-got-mine-you-cretins-need-to-sacrife attitude is what is wrong with this country.

[TahitiNut]

5. It's about treating human labor as a commodity. It's illegal and immoral.

I'm so tired of people who call themselves 'patriots' because they support sending this nation's military to die in securing the foreign entitlements of the wealthy who are throwing away this nation's workers to exploit the impoverished and oppressed in other countries. That we then grant these traitors more privileges, taxing their unearned income at less than half the rate of our own labor and giving them immunities from the law for the harms they inflict on our country and fellow citizens is so morally reprehensible that we deserve to rot and fall apart.