Professor Rojecki Lecture

Professor Rojecki in this lecture talked about the loss of jobs in America, The Tea Party Movement, our economic, and how the younger generation doesn’t follow the news as much as they should be. This lecture was really interesting to me since I love politics and I am a business major so I love anything that has to do with business.

One of the things that Professor Rojecki talked about that got my interest was the jobs loses in America. When he asked who has an Apple products a lot of people raised their hand. When he went on to explained that those Apple products were made in China because it was being outsource for its cheap labor, I wonder what the class expression was like. A lot of Americans didn’t realize that what they were buying was made in another country being employed by non-Americans. I’m not saying that a bad thing but when our unemployment is high we should take a stand with these companies and say that they should employ Americans. If we would have done that our unemployment rate wouldn’t have been so high, and maybe the “Great Recession”, as they call it, wouldn’t have been so bad since you would be giving jobs to American consumers. With the money these American consumers got they could reinvested it in the economy by buying things that could create more jobs in America.

Another thing I found interesting was when Professor Rojecki talked about how the younger generations doesn’t follow the news as much as they should be. When he asked the class who followed the news on a daily basic and knew what was going on around the world, only a hand full of people raised their hands. This surprised me a lot and is pretty sad. Being part of the younger generation we should know what is going on in the world. We are a leading force when it comes to elections time. President Obama won the election because of the younger generation. He inspired the young voter and those young voters in return voted for him. As Professor Rojecki if we don’t follow the news we we will listen to someone else take on the news instead of ours. Professor Rojecki also mentions that when we watch the news we usually watch whatever channel agrees with our political views. This is not surprising since most of us don’t like people challenging our beliefs, and we like to think we are right about most things.

Tony L