Educated Hands
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In news coverage, I often hear "Wall Street" and "Main Street" mentioned. But what about rural roads, side streets and back streets? When America's economy is good, is it good for every American? What does Globalization, which increases profits tremendously for America's privileged special interests, do for the loyal, dedicated American workers who were displaced by Globalization? Did displaced American workers send the jobs they worked at so hard for meager wages to Third-World-Country sweat-shops, or their employers, who wanted even cheaper labor? Are displaced American workers lazy "entitlement seekers," or forced into receiving public assistance for survival? Will at least some American employers hire displaced American workers, when illegal foreign workers are available for pennies-on-the-dollar under-the-table wages? When the American economy is good, is it as good for displaced workers as it is for special interests exploiting cheap foreign labor and American markets simultaneously? Is it as good for the victims of now legal "loan-sharking" as it is for predatory lenders? Is it as good for the addicted victims of the now legal "numbers racket" as it is for the lottery operators?Above all, why are American workers yet to be displaced by Globalization and/or technological innovation, so easily led to resent and criticize American workers already displaced? "Take our nation back?" "Make America great again?" Back to what? What was great about the redefined "Jim Crow" slavery that lasted more than a century after legal slavery was abolished? What was so great about the blatant racial discrimination pathetically ignorant Caucasians so enjoyed seeing used against minorities, that they could not see the sociopolitical discrimination they faced themselves?Those old enough may remember that Dragnet&
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