I agree that we have lost manufacturing jobs to other countries, some of them may have been low skill jobs, but I think the fast food jobs would also be classified as low skill. All these low skill jobs were usually were kids first jobs while they were in Highschool, now immigrants and the undereducated are trying to use those jobs to support a family, and in doing so have demanded higher wages. The Liberal run states/cities have caved, which gets passed onto the consumer with higher prices for goods.
I predict we will see an automated fast food process (think todays assembly line) with maybe 1 employee and a manager, so the fast food giants don't have to pay the crazy minimum wages these people are after. It may be cheaper to have the machines and pay to maintain them, then try to deal with paying higher wages, and unions. So more manufacturing jobs may get created for this, but where will that be?
More technicians will be trained and hired to maintain these machines.
In turn there will be less entry level jobs for our youth, and more undereducated people will go on unemployment or find a way to get on the government dole, so they can work the minimum.
The gap between rich and poor will grow larger, the gap between those that are contempt with what life (government) gives them, and those that are persistent and have the drive, and can still attain the american dream will also grow larger.
My wife owns and operates her own business (dental practice), you have to want it badly and work hard to grow it. Truth is less and less americans just do not have that "can do " attitude anymore, and one political party seems to grow in strength by trying grow government, and have a say in everything you do, while the other political party says they are for small business and enterprise, and do not have the backbone to get anything done.
