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2 Responses to “Daily Show: American Workforce Makeover”

1. BusSchDean Says:
   February 26th, 2011 at 8:18 am

   Well done! If your a betting man will you bet that an inflation-adjusted index of profit dollars derived from American consumers (i.e., profit $ year “x”/profit $ 2000) by the worlds’ corporations (i.e., US + non-US) will be above 1.0 by 2020? Below 1.0? At 1.0? What about by 2030?

   Surely the percent of profit derived from non-US consumers will increase as other economies grow. In that way US consumers become relatively less important though certainly still one of the larger single markets. But if the index above goes down then we are seeing an absolute decline in US households ability to contribute to the global economy, and all that implies domestically in terms of taxes for infrastructure, etc.

2. gordonq Says:
   February 28th, 2011 at 1:08 am

   So is Jon Stewart suggesting that all corporations unionize and bring back full pensions for everyone? One thing for certain is that he’ll not be hurting as he can afford goods and services by unionized labor. I always get a little nervous when millionaires with microphones preach. I think of Jon as the video version of Doonesbury and find them both just about equally sage and funny.

   I always thought unions were meant to rarify labor to make it more expensive for the benefit of the union worker and I’m sure Jon is a member of the Screen Actors Guild.