Of the US total of 154 million workers, only 18.465 million are actually goods producers; for each person who actually makes something, we've got 8.3 people who are providing services, education, and government to them. These numbers show that "outsourcing" is rampant and all manufacturing and goods producing are to the cheapest possible country; all designed to increase corporate profits and unemployment.
"That's been the game since telecommunications got cheap enough to make it all work." notes cutting edge economics/investment guru George Ure. (http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
Serving is surpassed by caring, especially for the ill and elderly, in job creation:
(Why are these people smiling?)
"Employment in health care continued to increase in September (19,000), with
the largest gain occurring in ambulatory health care services (15,000).
Health care has added 559,000 jobs since the beginning of the recession,
although the average monthly job gain thus far in 2009 (22,000) is down from
the average monthly gain during 2008 (30,000)."
