Hendrick asked: ...Where are the jobs? I would suggest that the cancer of Government meddling and policies has been slowly killing mid-level jobs throughout the US. Constantly growing and ever changing regulation from OSHA, EPA, IRS, etc. etc. create a friction and an overhead cost of doing business such that only large companies with armies of lawyers and accountants can hope to comply. Mandates from the "employer's" SSA contribution, taxes, and (now) mandated health care have made US employees non-competitive on the world stage except for high-salary jobs (where these costs are small potatoes) and low-level service jobs which can't be exported. But maybe some of the employee-related costs can be shed at the employee's expense.
I think this is all pretty obvious. But I'm unsure if it's simply an unintended consequence of liberal idealism run amuck or if it's actually the desired result. If you rob Peter to Pay Paul, you can usually depend on Paul's support. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
