Comments on: How many jobs really require college?

By: Sam J.

Sam J. — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 17:24:57 +0000

“…American workers are permanently uncompetitive with non-American workers…”

American workers are permanently noncompetitive with other workers with all the regulations. Not that I want to get rid of them and have children in factories and our rivers catching on fire.

There’s also the little matter of the bankers getting free money while they charge us and business a fortune. We could have done a lot more for our economy by giving small business $16 trillion dollars worth of free money and closed the banks. Our whole money supply system is a scam.

The Chinese and Japanese are much smarter their banking system is owned essentially by the government and interlocking controlled entities. Ours are owned by, I assume with good reason, the Jews.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:07:50 +0000

Bob, I understand you to believe American workers are permanently uncompetitive with non-American workers. After you recreate the USSR, which American workers can produce the wealth necessary to subsidize the other American workers?

By: Bob Sykes

Bob Sykes — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:19:47 +0000

In no particular order, the processes that have devastated the working class are: women entering the work force; automation; legal and illegal immigration; off-shoring industry; and free trade. Subsidizing wages might counter the deleterious effects of automation, off-shoring and free trade, but it does not address the other issues of immigration and women in the work force. What would help, and what is actually required, is a thorough-going protectionist trade policies and highly restrictionist (preferably zero) immigration policies.

If none of this is acceptable, there will have to be a guaranteed minimum income (shades of Nixon) financed by very heavy, progressive income taxes on the upper classes, with an absolute cap on what they can earn.