Reply #49: No it wouldn't.

[Liberal Veteran]

And it's silly to suggest it.

1. Not every one is mentally equipped for white collar work. That's a fact.

2. Factory work is generally easier (physically) than most manual labor jobs such as janitorial services, burger flipping, construction, waiting tables, stocking shelves, pumping gas, fixing cars, dock workers, fishermen, etc. It's tedious work a lot of the time, but it's hardly backbreaking labor.

Unskilled factory work is good honest work that usually is a step up from many of the jobs I mentioned and at the end of the day you need those people more than they need you pushing your pencil at work.

And it ain't like your sweet white collar job is all that safe either. When we saw the mass exodus of manufacturing jobs from the US we were told, no promised, by people like you that we didn't need those nasty filty hard factory jobs that kept many towns I grew up in alive. We would all get nice clean service related pencil pushing jobs to replace it and now those jobs are going overseas as well and there is NOTHING...I REPEAT: NOTHING AT ALL to replace those service jobs being lost to third world workers once again.

My personal belief is that attitudes like yours come from a sense of hard manual work being beneath you and a sense of entitlement. The fact of the matter is that you are merely making excuses for corporate greed and exploitation of third world workers because you are deeply afraid you might actually have to do manual labor for once in your life.