Obama I'm the guy that Hillery says that you're talking down to.
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I'm the guy that Hillery says that you're talking down to. I live in Pennsylvania and I apprenticed in 1974 as an electrician. I specialize in industrial controls (PLC's, control logic, computer driven production lines) and I am good at it. In my career I have been laid off due to the plant moving for cheaper labour,or going out of business five times. I have moved across the country for work and now I am back in Pennsylvania. These were all good jobs that you could raise a family on and pay your bills and take a vacation every year.
Those plants I worked in made good profit, just not as much profit for the corporation as being able to pay someone per day less than I made an hour. If you want my take on the economy I think the appropriate quote is from Henry Ford "If I pay a man enough to buy my car, he will". If you remove all the middle class jobs you will no longer have a middle class, you will then have very rich and very poor with high crime and rioting in the streets with the poor trying to hang the rich. Do you want to live there?
So, am I bitter? You are f*****g right I am bitter. I have a pitchfork, torch, rope, and I can find the nearest tree or lamppost. It got going good with Reagan, Bush "HW" continued, Clinton sold us out to China and pushed NAFTA, and the current President I do not speak his name without damning him to hell for unspeakable crimes, treason, idiocy, and violating his oath to the constitution.
So you are right I am bitter and I don't trust any politicians, Hillery is right that I am hard working and an optimist. What she doesn't seem to understand is that it is possible to be all of these things.
After the last layoff I started my own electrical business specializing in solar and microhydro, residential, commercial, and industrial electrical as bread and butter. Work is a little slow now but it will get better as renewable energy becomes more affordable and word of mouth as to the quality of my work.
So I am going to vote for the skinny black guy with funny ears and funny name. I just want you to understand that you are making promises of change to me, and I expect you to follow through.
I expect you to prosecute war profiteers, I expect you to prosecute torturers, I expect you to prosecute high government officials that abused their office, I expect you to change the tax laws, I expect you to institute comprehensive health care, the list of change we need is long, I expect to see good effort at making those changes.
Steven Lathe