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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-18-08 10:04 AM
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18. I'm one of those people
Edited on Mon Feb-18-08 10:09 AM by OnionPatch
who lost jobs to outsourcing and cheap foreign labor. In fact, I've had to retrain twice now. First, my factory job was gone to Japan (steel...years ago) and recently my IT job has gone to India. Luckily, I was able to stay on in an administrative position but for how long....how many freakin' times do I have to retrain? And how do I know that the job I retrain for is going to stay here? That India speech is what keeps me from supporting Hillary. Now I hear her expressing sympathy for those who lost jobs, but what is her plan to help us? More education? For crying out loud, I'm almost fifty years old and I have to go back to college again? :eyes: (Edited to add: most of the college help offered seems to be aimed at young college students, which is great, but where is the help for retraining working adults? I can't go to college full time, which leaves me ineligible for most college aid.)
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