Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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Even white-collar jobs are fleeing the country hand over fist now. I have a friend with an engineering degree that’s working as a maintenance man in an apartment complex, because that’s the best he could do.
The only jobs that are really safe- for now- are hands-on jobs like nursing and truck driving; any job that can be sent overseas will be sent overseas. And when workers begin to migrate to the hands-on jobs, they’ll flood the market and wages will plummet.
The problem is not that kids today are playing video games. The problem is that capitalism, when absent of the counterbalance of strong labor unions, just simply doesn’t work.
I have some sympathy for your position, but working folks—blue collar, white collar and in-between–must get a grip on what matters and on what’s going to prepare their kids for what will be a rocky future.
Thanks for the comment.
Their kids can study all day if there are no jobs their time is wasted. we need to bring back blue collar jobs because we as a country have a over abundance of blue collar workers such as myself. Americans used to produce and now we consume, a country or society can not substain on consumption alone.
In hong kong the garbage collector is as respected as the doctor the gardener is respected as the teacher. all jobs share a common thread and teamwork in a society is essential. the blue collar jobs are looked down apon. when we make reference to why we have so many illegal’s is because they do jobs that no one else will do is a statement that we rank jobs in a hierarchy where some jobs are more important than others. all jobs are need to be veiwed as equal and the pay scale should match. i am not saying a cherry picker and a surgeon should be paid they same but both are needed and need to be recognized and equally important in our society. great pride can be taken in any job as long as the person doing it is shown appreciation and gratitude for the service they provide.
Bill–Thanks for both accurate comments. Though we have based on consumption for a long time now and I’m not sure the blue collar jobs are coming back. At least in a way that supports a family very well.
As for the second comment, it would be a great start if average working people would be respectful of other average working people. That is something we could improve on in this country.