How many times have we heard it said, when referring to plant closings in particular, “these jobs are never coming back?” Since the 1970s, corporate America has been sending our jobs abroad in search of cheaper labor. As a natural consequence jobs are lost here, plants are closed and houses are abandoned as people migrate elsewhere in search of work. Years later these houses become a blight upon the neighborhood, many are then demolished and another consequence occurs; those people aren’t coming back ether. Later, the plants are dismantled and a chapter in history is closed.
The recent increase in the rate of unemployment to nearly 10 percent — some would put that figure closer to 16 percent, depending on whose books are being cooked — is not necessarily a consequence of this latest recession but rather; after a quarter century of corporate downsizing, the chickens are coming home to roost.
Of course, these jobs and people are never coming back if we keep tearing everything down; not to mention the morale of those who chose to stay behind. If I am correct, then the current high rate of unemployment is the “new norm,” a rate at which we will have to adapt to. Or, we quit listening to the naysayers [those who say “they are never coming back”] and become, once again, the entrepreneurs who built this great country. 401(k)s and mutual funds aside, we need to invest in our own communities. Then, the jobs will be back!
Donnie Flecker
Anderson
Letters
Letter: Quit listening to the naysayers
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
Any recovery for the middle class, in the recovery of our economy, will be led by the recovery of the union attitude in America. Nothing else.
- Letter: Founding fathers were humanists
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Letter: Lutz not representing the working class
I feel bad that Rep. Lutz (R) is sad, because Democrats at the Statehouse are representing the working class people of Indiana. While he is representing big business.
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Viewpoint:: Washington must wake up to missile threat
Three years after President Obama opened an outstretched hand to Iran and attempted to reset relations with Russia, the former has restarted its drive to build nuclear weapons including recent missile testing and saber rattling while the latter has dropped its diplomatic relations to Cold War temperatures.
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Letter: Consumer-driven economy will pay off debt
To save America some money — by acclimation of course — let’s not have a presidential election in 2012. We already have a good president who will do his best to kill all Republican bills (DOA) and, consequently, create more good-paying jobs in the $30 per hour range.
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Letter: Gingrich cashes in on political amnesia
Rasmussen says that Romney has flattened nationally. Why?
Two reasons seem to tell the tale. Gingrich has shown that he will fight, and Romney is a Mormon, believed to be a “cult” by a majority of evangelicals. -
Letter: Hiring Winkler not wise spending
As a taxpayer I want to know that my taxes are being spent wisely. Hiring Greg Winkler at a salary of $126,000 is not wise spending.
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Letter: Bill of Rights being nullified by new law
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act on New Year’s Eve. I doubt many Americans noticed its implications because they do not yet comprehend the big picture. This law, coupled with the Patriot Act, is paving the way for America’s direction toward tyranny.
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Letter: $14 trillion debt started by previous president
I’m a proud atheist who’s lucky enough to know the difference between fact and fantasy.
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Letter: Economy putting people in the gutters
We are now getting the results of putting people in the gutters. We need to take a second look at our government and its policies. It’s not working.
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Letter: Union attitude must prevail for recovery
