understand the snippet at the bottom of this age (from the previous post) against the backdrop of reduced access to quality education, and the problem seems even less tractable.

costs of living regularly increase requiring jobs that will sustain a respectable living (no BMWs or Bahamian vacations necessary, simply quality housing and foodstuffs). the foregoing requires the educational background by which to qualify for these well-paying jobs and perform acceptably. if the people cannot find decent work to supply wages by which to live, how with they spend their wages to drive the economy? if the economy is in a slump, to whom will companies sell their goods? if companies cannot make a profit on the sale of goods and services, they will downsize and reduce costs to stay solvent. if corporations are downsizing and resorting to increased degrees of automation, jobs are disappearing as a result. without access to well-paying jobs, families cannot afford to send their children to educational institutions of quality.
our solution so far has been to import our skilled and unskilled labor; mexicans and asians for our gardeners and landscapers and cosmeticians, and our scientists and doctors and mathematicians. they'll do more work under harsher conditions for less pay in many cases. the result? backlash and ethnic emnity for the "guest intruders," exposure to disintegration of national identity and loss of cohesion, violation of national security.

am i the only person to see the flaw in a laissez-fair economic structure? i'll make one example: peanut butter. peanut butter is fairly easy to make; all it takes are peanuts and a bit of salt, no additional preservatives required. natural peanut butter tends to separate, with the lighter peanut oil floating on the top of the "butter." instead, on the shelves we see homogenous peanut spreads labelled as peanut butter from which the peanut oil has been extracted, and replaced by cheaper and less nutritive substitutes ("canola" oil nee rapeseed oil), and "natural peanut butter" is sold at a premium. why? the separated peanut oil is then sold as a separate product at a profit. likewise for the pesticide-contaminated cottonseed oil found in many high-calorie/low-nutrition snack foods. by the way, neither rapeseed (canola) nor cottonseed are fit for human consumption; both are commonly used as machine oils.

are these the lengths to which companies must go in order to make a buck? is the market so cutthroat, or are the companies go greedy for profit as to turn their backs on the public trust?
what was that, you say, the love of money is what?

heaven help us, earth support us

thank you

: Nobody in public office seems predisposed to acknowledge a
: basic truth. We have two conflicting forces at work in the

: world. One is population growth and the need for jobs
: paying a living wage. The other is corporate consolidation
: and automation, which are eliminating jobs.

: Now you don't have to be a graduate in higher mathematics to
: figure out that if viable jobs are shrinking and the
: population which needs them is growing, something real bad
: is going to happen in the political and social arena in the
: near future.

: The day when people were willing to politely and silently
: starve to death while their "betters" gorged
: themselves inside fortified compounds is gone. Unless we
: address this imbalance, we're likely to find ourselves in
: the middle of something that will make the French
: Revolution look like a pacifists convention.

: First published in the Orlando Sentinel.