Which shore?

Funny thing - out West when we talk about jobs going overseas it's often sort of an academic discussion. Out here, it's much more visible. You see so many once vibrant, beautiful former mill/industrial town that is now kind of quiet, dirty and sad. Many have changed just in Lisa's lifetime, since she was a kid here in the 70s and 80s.

It makes you think about those politicians and business leaders who tout building brand new billion dollar factories in China to make cheap crap for Walmart and poisonous toys, food and pet food for us to eagerly consume. I'd gladly pay 2 or 3 times as much for consumer goods if they'd slap some tariffs on imports, stop selling our entire country to overseas interests, and pay some of our debts for a change.

Any of them who can look at what they've done to this country and then smuggly tell us those people just need to retrain for service jobs (servicing who?) should be stoned! :-0

Official Disclaimer: lest this become a political blog, I must point out that I despise the Democrat, Republican, and even the Libertarian parties. Leaves me in a lurch, don't it? ;-)