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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many troops are returning from Iraq next month?  How many more will return from Afghan over the next couple of years?  Where will they find jobs?  The DOD contractor game will slowly wind down with the wars so even that won't be a good option for former military.

What possible next big industry boom will require a ton of workers?  In this digital age.  Unless it's building high-speed rail lines or repairing our aging infrastructure, almost everything else can be done by computers anymore.  Oh yeah, there is always retail.  More $9/hour retail jobs are exactly what's going to save us.[/quote]

Yeah, and even that is fading. Walmart, Target, and supermarkets. The small boutique stores are all that's left of local businesses (or soon will be). And they aren't really hiring the people who couldn't get a job anywhere else - they're hiring people who shop at stores like them who are working for fun or part time or for extra money. Sad, sad, sad. I hope our children think of a solution. I have to think that some of the solution is going to be people like us deliberately bucking the stream, hiring and buying local where we can, seriously buying USA made stuff, even at a higher price. Buying from etsy (a small person on etsy, not a big shop) or a small business. But one person can only do so much. Just today my mother "liked" walmart on facebook. W.T.F. [/quote]

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