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I constantly hope that we can reverse this course of sending manufacturing jobs overseas, get Americans back to work making products that not only improve our lives but are there to export because the entire world needs it. We can put tens of thousands of people to work building new cars, non-polluting cars, energy effecient cars, etc. We can put people to work building solar panels, wind farms, etc. all kinds of things that will help bring us off our dependance on foreign oil and help the environment. We can be a world leader on these things, it just takes a willingness for those at the top to suspend their greed and instead look to what can help this country - not themselves - for generations to come.
The absolute out-of-control aspect of jobs having been sent overseas at the expense of American workers who are not skilled to do anything else just makes me want to puke. All this talk of reeducating these workers to learn new skills is not always the answer, IMO. There are some people who can just sit on an assembly line and make sure something goes "Click" and a product gets made. Most of these people are not going to learn new jobs, they're not going to go back to school for multiple years and become something completely different. In a perfect world, they could, but it's just not going to happen. Some people just push a button, you know? But I feel for that person, and there are so many across this country who are low-skilled workers who have lost their jobs, homes, happiness, family security, because a bunch of corporate leaders and CEOS figured out they could make more money by firing those people and giving the same job to someone in another country and pay them 1/4 of the cost for the same thing.
That kind of greed just makes me sick. It makes me want to scream. Surely in a just world those people can look at what they've created and what they've destroyed in the process and feel ashamed for it. But I doubt it.
We have the ability, as we've seen throughout history, to come together and achieve amazing, world changing things. Look at all the inventions the world depends on that started here, all the people that were put to work and the spinoff industries and inventions that became of that. It's reason to smile and hope we can accomplish similar things again.
It won't happen overnight, but I'm very willing to believe that our new President is going to do everything he can to help get us back on the right track, help our country establish some jaw-dropping new initiatives and programs to put people to work and be an example for the entire world. I love thinking about that. All we can do is hope and pray that things change for the better; all I know is that I'm more willing to believe that's possible because Obama won and the other guy didn't.