Reply #15: In the 60's, a family of 4 or more could live on ONE blue-collar wage [View All]

Now, it's a stretch to do it on 2, 3, or in some cases more jobs and paychecks...and those jobs used to have much better medical benefits attatched to them. Corporations are only focused on higher profits and higher market share each quarter after the next...it doesn't take a genius to see that that is simply not possible to sustain.
High-paying manufacturing, and now tech jobs, continue to bleed out of the country and the economy. And despite what some people seem to want to believe, this time it's not 'cyclical'. Those jobs aren't coming back this time around, and a lot of the people that used to hold them are not easily trainable in new careers. more Americans are in more debt than ever before.
Maybe you see a way out of this, but a lot of people can't...
Maybe you could enlighten us?