[Sylvanfan]

Is there any room for a middle class in a global economy? With communication and automation where it is today, I just don't see the ability for any economy to support a large number of blue collar type manufacturing jobs that pay that middle class type wage.

I know at my work it's been discussed quite intently that if we want to keep our employment numbers where they're at, we need to increase our revenues significantly, and to look at a completely different type of work, otherwise we're just fighting something that will kick our ass. For us to run a plant with our labour rates trying to do what was good to us for 30 years, and expect to employ a lot of people....we're kidding ourselves.