Get the parents out of the cycle by training and ensure the children get a good quality education and the problem will resolve itself for the most part. I have no problem feeding a person while they learn to fish, but somewhere along the line they need to get out there and do some fishing for themselves.
Well put, and full of mature wisdom.
... and I would also suggest that one way to bring jobs Back to the US is to treat all products made overseas by American companies as imports and add heavy tariffs so that it does not behoove those companies to offshore jobs that can be done in the US by Americans that need jobs.
TPP will assure that foreign countries cannot produce and sell knock-offs of our patented products in the US. (Remember, this is the reason China was
not at the table when TPP was being formulated by the original countries - and for that very reason cited. The same will happen soon with Europe, because for the moment TPP is only to be signed by the Pacific Rim
signatories.)
I made the point that the further down-market you go in technology, the more it's worthwhile to make that product abroad. Unfortunately that seems the case for a good number of upmarket products as well. That smart-phone we all use will never be produced in the US because it's end cost would price it out of the market.
(Frankly, I have never understood why nimble-fingered women in China were any more nimble-fingered than Indian women on reservations in the US. Why are they not being employed in this manner? Why not sign another treaty with the Indian Nations that exclude their people from paying any Income Tax?)
Unless, of course, we can convince Americans that they should
only buy made-in-USA produce. That has never worked, however. Americans, like just about everybody on this planet, want the most bang-for-their-buck.
The point I made is that there is no "artificial import-tax manner" that will protect higher-cost American workers. If we try that, the countries affected will slap import-taxes on our products. We did that post-WW1 and it just help bring about the Great Depression in the 1930s.
So, it behooves us to get our finger out and make it as easy as humanly possible to get more Americans up the educational ladder in order to assure a middle-class existence.
I've seen the Swiss, Germans and Scandinavian countries do this, so why not us? Because we still think we are the "Greatest Country on Earth" and don't need to do so? Just after-WW2, yes. But that was a 70 years ago.
OK, so let's all vote for Trump - and in 8 years we shall be having this discussion all over again because nothing will have changed ...
