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Originally Posted by Bill8
not really an answer dude, more of a tautology.
"well, the economy will grow, so we will need more workers, so the workers will be employed by the new jobs need by the growing economy cuz the economy will grow. but it will take a while cuz the new jobs will have to be skilled jobs, so all the workers will need to be retrained IN ADDITION to the already existing training systems like college that already train new workers for the new jobs created by the growing economy which will grow."
you mention tech - what tech specifically? most tech is made outside the country now. maybe everybody become smartphone app creators?
if it's to be tech, since we are not allowed to be a managed economy like our competitors, what possible force could cause the corporations to hire american workers to produce the tech?
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More specific. . . We could create new technologies that could create clean renewable power. We could create tecnologies in computing, aviation, transportation you name it. It wasn't that long ago that we were the world's innovator in new technology. That is something we can work to regain.
Here is one problem we have. We bring in large amounts of engineers from other countries. India, for one, is not happy about this because in India if you have the grades you can go to college and learn to be an engineer for free and the government pays for it. US companies recruit from there en mass. India isn't too happy about picking up the bill to educate these people then have them move to the US to work. We can work to improve our engineering so we recruit our citizens for these jobs not people from other countries.
I don't have all the answers but this is something I know for sure. We aren't going to be growing manufacturing. We can't compete with workers who will do the exact same job for $1 a day that we pay workers $15 per hour for. So unless we pass some major protectionist laws those jobs will continue to be outsourced. That leaves us with developing new technologies as a way to rebuild our economy and work force.