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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 149988, member: 23"]Once factory jobs started heading for China, this country should have tried to find a solution. Widespread unemployment can't be fixed by the President or Congress. This is a free market economy. We can't dictate to manufacturers. We can, however, make it financially better to locate business here than in other countries. That's the first part of the problem. I grew up in a family that worked in the mills and shoe factories in New England and remember when they all closed down. NH still hasn't recovered, although the ski resorts and lakes region have done their best to lure vacationers. It's not enough. The whole area of southern NH is economically depressed. The second part of the problem is, indeed, technology. Every time you create a robot to do a job, you take away an avenue for a live person to support their family. No one is doing anything to solve that issue. I'm not sure there is a way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Every time someone shops at a Walmart or Target or another box store, they may be supporting a few local clerks and shelf stockers, but the big profits are going overseas. For a few decades the shoppers save money buying cheap goods, but it erodes the overall economy of the towns in which they are located. They aren't putting money back into the infrastructure the way Mom & Pop businesses do. There's a whole generation of young people out there who have been trained by media hype to believe that a $29.99 dining room set from Ikea is better than grandma's antiques. How do you fight that?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 149988, member: 23"]Once factory jobs started heading for China, this country should have tried to find a solution. Widespread unemployment can't be fixed by the President or Congress. This is a free market economy. We can't dictate to manufacturers. We can, however, make it financially better to locate business here than in other countries. That's the first part of the problem. I grew up in a family that worked in the mills and shoe factories in New England and remember when they all closed down. NH still hasn't recovered, although the ski resorts and lakes region have done their best to lure vacationers. It's not enough. The whole area of southern NH is economically depressed. The second part of the problem is, indeed, technology. Every time you create a robot to do a job, you take away an avenue for a live person to support their family. No one is doing anything to solve that issue. I'm not sure there is a way. Every time someone shops at a Walmart or Target or another box store, they may be supporting a few local clerks and shelf stockers, but the big profits are going overseas. For a few decades the shoppers save money buying cheap goods, but it erodes the overall economy of the towns in which they are located. They aren't putting money back into the infrastructure the way Mom & Pop businesses do. There's a whole generation of young people out there who have been trained by media hype to believe that a $29.99 dining room set from Ikea is better than grandma's antiques. How do you fight that?[/QUOTE]
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