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On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Zalek Bloom
How nice of them. Did they tell you how much money they are saving?
Temporary benefit?
Advancement? To what? Advancement to the dumpster? Involuntary early retirement?
Meantime we have
Oh, please keep us informed as to how this works.
You'd do well to find other groups that are concerned about this, find the economists (there are some) who don't believe offshoring is good for the US, for example here is one:
The following quote is from Business Week, December 6, 2004 and from the article "Shaking up Trade Theory" by Aaron Bernstein on pages 116 to 120. (The subbreastle of the article is: "For decades economists have insisted that the U.S. wins from globalization. Now they are not so sure")
They quoted Paul Samuelson (MIT) as saying "Comparative advantage cannot be counted on to create...net gains greater than the net losses from trade"
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Just chickeny You are absolutely right here ! That's the way it is now. This is why we...
And, keep on networking with all of the efforts out there to stop the offshoring. You should also become a little bit familiar with the history of labor laws and how job protectionism works in Europe and also be aware that before the most recent 10-15 years, in Japan you could work for a nice capitalist corporation and expect a job for life. No socialism, no communism. How did they do it? Of course they didn't have greedy CEOs like we do.
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