I guess the current thinking is a pretty high probability of a Democrat for the next US president, barring large amounts of concealed prejudice of one sort or another, and Barack and Hillary seem to be falling over each other this week struggling for the most aggressive position in rejecting NAFTA.
This is a shaping up to be rather sadly ironic, when the implosion of the US economy is considered. Any dismantlement of NAFTA will be just in time to allow Canada to throw up tariff barriers to block cheap US goods as the US dollar drops to 80 cents. ...The article Ed forwarded on outsourcing to India contained a silly bit of misinformation, suggesting British Columbia would be a good place for low cost outsourcing. Pretty funny, considering that BC's economy is currently running so red hot that the government has just initiated a huge ad campaign in eastern Canada to entice economic migrants, as BC industries are finding it impossible to fill job vacancies here at any wage. Low wage retail enterprises of all sorts are currently suffering from poor customer service here, as they are chronically short of workers, and are faced with tolerating those who call in sick at short notice (probably while out applying for better employment), or firing them with poor prospects of finding replacements. Help wanted signs are everywhere. -Pete _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
