RE: Observations in France

2002-06-18 Thread Harry Pollard
Mike, An interesting report - thanks. Harry _ Michael wrote: I've just finished spending two fascinating weeks teaching an intensive Management course as part of an American MBA program in a smallish sized city in the middle of France. The city itself is a faded

RE: ILO Report - mass unemployment

2002-06-18 Thread Lawrence DeBivort
Greetings, everyone, One billion people unemployed? Hmmm... this hardly seems possible: Say that at most 3 billion people, men and women, are in the job-seeking or -holding employable age group, and say that of these, half live in cultures where social custom is for both men and women to work

Re: ILO Report - mass unemployment

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Walker
Speaking to the ILO's annual assembly, Somavia said more than one billion people were unemployed, prompting 120 million migrant workers to leave their families and home countries in the hope of finding a job elsewhere. To paraphrase Phillipe Berthelot: if one person is unemployed, it is

Re: Town Stumbles as Economy Shifts

2002-06-18 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
I think I've told this story before at least a couple times. But the issue keeps coming up and I believe it is a good example of an answer. If you recognize feel free to skip it. Arthur, Sounds a lot like Picher where I grew up. Except the mines were lead and zinc. I went through that

FWk: Re: NYTimes.com Article: Plutocracy and Politics

2002-06-18 Thread pete
I checked my mail last night to find Harry's comments on taxation, and only Ray challenging the collection of facile nonsense, so I'll attempt to put in my two bits worth... On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Harry Pollard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Two directions for taxation: Taxation according to