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But ya it wasn't the near 10K jobs gone as a result of out-sourcing, it was the "free" health care system that caused all of the unemployment.
Be careful, a lot of people can't read sarcasm or intentional irony in text.
Translation for Gbaji et al: It was the out-sourcing that did in the jobs.
Trying to hang on to old technologies in the face of change is insane. Trying to hang onto present jobs if business can get the work done cheaper elsewhere is a losing game too. If you let the private economy change and grow on its own, what you'll find is that it is constantly wanting "new" workers. Developed nations need to forget about hanging onto bulk manufacturing, when the best and brightest want to live there, developing cutting edge content and processes.
White collar jobs are in medical and science research, Blue collar in Lab technicians and cleaners.
White collar writers, directors, actors, musicians, Blue collar copyists, roadies, technicians, data transferrers, forum mediators.
White Collar 5 star energy efficient house and office Architects, Blue collar builders
White collar CHP system designers, Blue Collar builders of CHP systems
White collar programmers, Blue Collar testers.
White collar agriculture inventors, engineers, biologists and chemists, Blue collar installers and shippers.
Where does someone who worked in a car or timber plant for 20 or 30 years fit in here? Obviously through new training or education. Instead of business having to "steal" the highly educated workers from the developing nations, why don't you give people a stable minimal safety net when they are unemployed, and then give them a stable system of free education, to fit them for the new jobs in the economy? Why hang on to old processes when there are newer, smarter, off-the-shelf technologies ready to go? If nations fitted themselves out with CHP systems, they'd get electricity and heating at a 10% discount, drop their energy production pollution by 70%, and have blue collar jobs coming out their ears for a few decades.