for kids to make it on their own.
These days. It was hard for me but for kids now, its even harder.
Rents are SO high now, relative to many people's incomes.
And its going to get worse as we are getting pushed into a race to the bottom. Both parties leadership want wages to fall. They just wont admit it.
We should focus on higher wage jobs and making our workforce smart enough to do them. To be able to do that legally, we now need to make big changes. They wont wait. Thanks to the recent WTO ruling on solar panels its clear to me at least that we're going to be stuck with a very unworkable situation if we dont immediately carve out everything that is service, infrastructure, all the possible areas which might be part of a New Deal like job stimulus. We dont realize it but thats now been taken off the table unless we act to put it back.
We really do need a return to protectionism on job creating important things.
Otherwise we will be unable to stimulate the economy. Sanders could win and be unable to do a damn thing. Thats how they work.
And TiSA and WTO will destroy working and middle class wages. We would be forced to match very low bids and we would be unable to do so without joining a race to the bottom. Trade deals are silent on wages, wages are not working conditions. Jobs in countries are not jobs for those countries people, necessarily. In the future often they wont be.
WTO goals are to maximize "efficiency" which means higher profits and lower wages.
Mad Mike (WTO DG in the late 1990s) actually said as much.
Also, we need to carve out education completely- 100% K12- higher education, distance education, everything. We need to do that to protect teachers jobs otherwise they will be privatized bit by bit and then subcontracted out to huge multinationals - we need to carve out education soon. Now, before the election. Otherwise it could easily be over before then.
Obama is a privatizer.
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