vacerator
Well-known member
Bob,
I only completed two semesters.I did fine in political science, and english, but had aweful trouble with computer programming in cobol, fortran, and rpg. I guess I gave up. I was blessed with a good job, and when the recession of 1980 hit, I just didn't go back. Friends over the years, and my dad tried to get me to return. I didn't want debt. Being the eldest of 5, my folks couldn't afford to help. My dad did help my youngest sister though. She's a master degre'd teacher.
I have a blue collar neighbor who still blames Mexico, and China for his lower pay scale predicament. We were told in 1989 that a lot of goods were going to come from there, and if you were under age 25, you had best get a good education, or a skilled trade.
Yet had Americans not bought those imported goods then, who knows? But we did. I bought domestic products when I could. Dexter shoes, Red Wing, Levi's, Hanes, Haggar, RCA, Magnavox, Eureka, Kenmore, Maytag, GE, and always an American car.
Like exporting labor, it's always about the lowest cost. Same reason people shopped Walmart, and forced small stores, then big ones out of business.
I only completed two semesters.I did fine in political science, and english, but had aweful trouble with computer programming in cobol, fortran, and rpg. I guess I gave up. I was blessed with a good job, and when the recession of 1980 hit, I just didn't go back. Friends over the years, and my dad tried to get me to return. I didn't want debt. Being the eldest of 5, my folks couldn't afford to help. My dad did help my youngest sister though. She's a master degre'd teacher.
I have a blue collar neighbor who still blames Mexico, and China for his lower pay scale predicament. We were told in 1989 that a lot of goods were going to come from there, and if you were under age 25, you had best get a good education, or a skilled trade.
Yet had Americans not bought those imported goods then, who knows? But we did. I bought domestic products when I could. Dexter shoes, Red Wing, Levi's, Hanes, Haggar, RCA, Magnavox, Eureka, Kenmore, Maytag, GE, and always an American car.
Like exporting labor, it's always about the lowest cost. Same reason people shopped Walmart, and forced small stores, then big ones out of business.