Originally Posted by Space

Hi `Ben, Thanks for your post & thoughts

What have you done, or going to `do to make it better for the USA ? Have your contacted/written your Representatives in D.C. & let them know your concerns ?

Yes, we are living in a Global Market, & yes the Rich keep getting richer & the poor keeps getting poorer...So many sit back & complain, but few try to do anything to change things for the better in the U.S.A.

Maybe you are the one to lead the way & encourage the citizens of the USA to get involved b-4 it's to late

I guess we can all just sit back & hope/pray that things get better or more fair in this Global economy (?) or we each can do our part & stay active on what's going on in D.C. ? ?

It's sure not easy, but nothing good in this life seems to be E.Z. 4-Sure...

That's all, my space brain is tired & empty...Thanks everyone that reads the above Peace/Out

Originally Posted by Space

A look at jobs replaced by technology<cite id="yui_3_5_1_20_1359028191468_258" class="byline vcard">By The Associated Press | Associated Press – <abbr class="updated" title="2013-01-24T08:37:14Z">3 hrs ago</abbr></cite>

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  Associated Press - This combination of Associated Press file photos shows a worker, left, assembling a motor in a Mercedes Benz factory in 2008 in Berlin, and a robot, right, painting a brake drum at Webb Wheel …more Products, in 2013, in Cullman, Ala.. Thanks to robots, Webb Wheel hasn't added a factory worker in over three years, though it's making 300,000 more drums annually, a 25 percent increase. (AP Photo) less

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Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.
Worse, those jobs weren't just lost to China and other developing countries. No one got them. They vanished, victims of increasingly sophisticated software and machines that can do tasks faster, cheaper and often better than humans.
Here is a photo gallery of jobs especially hard hit by the technological onslaught: