Candidates: If ‘jobs’ are the question, what is the answer?

Candidates: If ‘jobs’ are the question, what is the answer?

Permit me to express my con- cerns and to address the issue that dominates the news prior for the up-coming mid-term elections. Every candidate is trouting the battle cry of Jobs! Jobs! Create Jobs!

Isn’t it apparent and evident that the advanced technology we enjoy today in every field of endeavor is to make more (money) with less (workers)? And isn’t success (profit) a measure of that success? Technology creates some jobs, but it eliminates more. Is it for the greater good for the economy? I think not, as I have lived through 89 years in the best and worst of it.

It is often expressed as a twin thought that a higher education is necessary for success at a job. True, if there is a job that technology doesn’t replace. We could become over-educated as, more and more, we hear people are over-qualified in their jobs.

Will America’s work-force, policemen, firemen, cooks, bakers, steelworkers, waitresses, janitors, masons, shoemakers, nurses, delivery boys etc. require a bachelor’s, master’s or Ph.D. degree? Technology must serve all of us, not replace us. We are short-sighted if we do not recognize that the continued success of technology will indeed create good jobs for some and eliminate jobs for others. There must be a balance where we all benefit.

The success of every endeavor in all fields of progress must include the basic truth that we must be united as a people, work for a common goal, and that is some job to start with.

I would greatly like to hear the elected officials and the aspiring candidates express that truth at the podium and to believe it and to do what it takes to achieve it.

Louis Mamula, Lowellville