http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeV2KzGGC38
Responding to Obama's comments about jobless people in small town PA, Clinton recently said that he grandfather, who went to work in a factory at age 11, working 6 day weeks and very long hours, had "good work."
Why do some Democrats say this kind of nonsense? These are not good jobs. Good jobs don't make you work 6 days a week for very long hours doing the same mindless repetition for decades. It's unfortunate when people haven't had a good enough education to do anything but work in a factory. Instead of glorifying this mindless, degrading work, we should be trying to give people a good education so that they have skills more valuable than those requisite to work in a factory.
More Americans should be graduating highschool, more Americans should be attending college. We should be proud that factories are leaving our country. It indicates that workers in the U.S. demand higher salaries than factories are willing to pay. The problem is that these people were left behind by the education system, and that should be the issue that we're addressing, not glorifying 6 day a week child labor.
It is also worth noting, jacob, that there is a fundamental mis-understanding of what is a 'job'. Everyone seems to assume they must be 'private sector', and thus in order to have a job one must have a profit-making owner of the working person. This is really not necessary, as we may simply create jobs through government action, and certainly those jobs can be made very pleasant and easy.
Also, the quality of life in any given 'job' is not determined by the 'education level' of the poor worker stuck in it, but rather politically. Thus, the lowliest postal clerk has a better job in Germany than does the american engineer who has borrowed $200,000 to buy his right to be exploited by his owner.
