It sounds to me like your just an apologist for a governmental and corporate strategy designed to maximize wealth at the expense of the everyday citizen.
When the vast majority of people are workers that can no longer afford to buy the big screen TV's and fancy cars, or when they continue to lose their homes, often due to deceptive albeit legal business practices, and we all work at McDonalds, WalMart, and Home Depot (smile) what will happen? The entire governmental and economic system will collapse right out from under those in power. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Adam Maas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Seen it happen on occasion. Almost overwhelmingly when you had a local > worker whose skillset and paycheck exceeded the actual needs of the > position. Prior to offshoring they'd get layed off and replaced by a > younger, less experienced worker. > > But since there's a lack of those, the foreigners get the job > instead. Ain't nothing new. In fact there's a new variant of it now, > where jobs are being moved from high-cost areas in the US (California > New York and Massachussetts most notably) to lower-cost areas within > the US for much the same reasons. The other option is to cut corners > elsewhere and hope you don't become uncompetitive and we've all seen > how well that worked for GM and Chrysler. > > Market rate is the price at which you can get somebody competent to do > the job. If Americans aren't willing to work for that money, well, > they aren't going to work. > > -- > M. Adam Maas > http://www.mawz.ca > Explorations of the City Around Us. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
