re: #151 Dr Lizardo

Yep. The sad truth is going out there and saying, straight-up, no chaser, “Hey folks; those jobs are gone and they’re gone forever and if you want a good-paying job, you’re going to need to go back to school and get a sheepskin” is essentially political suicide.

A whole lotta voters out there simply don’t want to hear it.

I used to be proud of our capitalistic system because it allowed unhealthy, uncompetitive companies to go under and be replaced by ones that were more efficient.

Then they made a hero out of Lee Iacocca for bailing out Chrysler motors with government loan guarantees.

Would’ve been cheaper to use that government money to retrain all those workers, but there was no political will on either side of the aisle to do so.