straightUp wrote:
Not that I'm complaining but why do you think 12 years?
I did not change jobs. 4 for biden, 8 for harris.
I don't know what any of you think Obama did for workers. He cost jobs. He did not have a clue what all the alphabet depts. were doing.
EPA was run by Environmental zealots, writing regulations there was no technology available to comply with. I have built & run large Tier One automotive plants all my life, always ahead of Environmental Regulations.
I was catching & treating stormwater before it even became a topic. I sealed a floor drains in the early 80's to keep any spills from getting in sewer systems.
I have always had a farm too. We have a lake that the herds use for water, we use for garden irrigation & kids fish & swim in. I got a stack of new regulations for the lake & a notice that it was now under control of EPA & come be used for whatever, whenever in, 6-8 pages of legalese jabber.
Companies start out in this country with a serious handicap. This is the most litigious country in the world. About 40% of the cost of a private plane is for insurance & there are a lot fewer people flying in private planes than working in plants. A company of any size ends up spending millions on lawyers every year. I am all for Safety Regulations, used to train OSHA personnel in our plants. Meeting these regs cost money, safety supplies are expensive due to producers having to have unreal liability insurance. Add to that the demise of "working ethic", poor attendance, & having to teach employees basic math in order to pass an employment test based at 8th grade level made outsourcing lucrative, in some cases necessary to stay in business. For the multi-lateral giants it was a profit goldmine, still is for the tech giants.
I watched what was happening remembering a book from the 60's "Future Shock" which maintained the US would become a service economy. I argued at the time that services could be outsourced more easily. I was right 75% or more of accounting, human resources, banking, technical services, is offshore.
Covid just showed the tip of the iceberg for all Western Countries. It does not make a damn how much your shareholders, executives made, when you have lost control of your supply lines.
A New World Order is just like Communism, looks good on paper. All the "woke" in the world is never going to change basic human nature anymore than operations, medicines, therapy are going to make more genders.