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Originally Posted by rubicon
If you all look back there once was a claim that computers would be us all out of business. Computer technology not only increased productivity and efficiency it also created job positions that never existed. It changed manufacturing, it changed the way mechanics work ,etc. Obama is dead wrong. Job positions evolve and many will disappear. the problems is that educators are behind the curve in offer education for these new positions and students are not better advised. It is why we graduate too many lawyers and not enough scientist and math majors (i.e engineers) The argument has always been that colleges/university are now suppose to prepare people for specific job positions except for law, medicine, engineering,etc
In all mimproved technology reducing my work staff. Instead it continually created more job positionsy years in management I never witness
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Your point on computer related jobs is an excellent one. When the federal government bailed out the auto industries it really wasn't about saving jobs. It was about saving the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and their millions of dollars of contributions to the coffers of the entrenched political parties.
A vacuum cannot exist in our economy. If General Motors actually went out of business due to it's, let's be honest, bad business strategies, GM's competitors would have enthusiastically filled the void in vibrant competition for that huge market.
The problem we were force fed was the eliminated jobs of GM, but the real problem for the federal government was the eliminated "union jobs". The UAW hasn't had much success in organizing the new companies building vehicles in the U.S.
These companies include Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai and Volkswagen who are changing the face of parts of this country with new factories, new jobs and new investments.
Now, if there was no autoworker union in the U.S. would the new faces on the scene pay their workers the living wages and employee benefits they now do? Who knows, but the union could still be there to organize these workers if the labor need arises. They would just have to work at it.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/06/for..._0106cars.html