Reply #28: Which country are you talking about...?

[theriverburns]

The America I grew up in. Pre Reagan. And pre globalization.

The public school I went to, in one of Cleveland's poorest neighborhoods, regularly beat (competed with anyways) the Jesuit school, St Ignatius, in both basketball and chess. And they recruited from all over. Our parents were mostly 2nd generation eastern and southern European immigrants, Hispanics and African Americans. I watched an entire world collapse when steel/rubber/auto industries packed up and left for GREENER pastures.

Our public schools were good. And egalitarian. So were our public libraries. Jobs paid well and an average man could own a house and expect to retire in relative comfort.

Is that too much to ask for? For blue collar guys like me? Or for workers anywhere in the world? I'll say it again. If globalization brings our standards down instead of others up, than it needs to be corrected. Needs to be fought.


Oh, yeah, and hi Acerbic. I bet you're a hoot at parties.