Ssemakula:
The value of the dollar falling is all going according to US plan to control the world economies. You haven't seen anything yet! Job outsourcing is there to create more trade deficiet for the US.
1st, - Foreigners in US will have to send more money back home. A plan to kulemesa the exportation of wealth to other countries. Who has that much money to send home, and at the same time take care of him/herself in the US?? Not so many foreigners will keep up with that.
2nd, - Job outsourcing! The US outsource architects designed their outsourcing plan to keep a hold on foreign immigration into the US. By taking jobs to foreign countries, the US is employing all those people that could otherwise be trying to enter the US in search for jobs. Thus, limiting immigration.
3rd, - Job outsourcing part-2! As more and more US manifacturing companies relocate to foreign countries, a trade deficiet is expected. The more the trade deficeit, the lower the value of the dollar goes. The lower the value of the dollar, the more money foreigners in the US will have to send back home. The more money they will have to send, the more difficult it will be for them to send money. The more they don't send money, the more they will lose contact with their relatives. Why?? Because all these relatives really care for is money. They are always pastering their relatives in the US for money all the time.
4th, - Job outsourcing part-3! The more foreigners in the US lose contact with their relatives back home, the more assimilated into the US culture they become. Example; Italian Americans lost contact with their relatives in Italy, the result; American assimilation.
5th, - Job outsourcing part-4! The more American companies exported out there, the more the US holds a strong hand on other countries' economies. Example; India, the US is going to control the Indian economy and even threaten to take away its companies if the Indian gov't does not become its new puppets on the world stage. The Indian economic growth is seen by Pakistanise as a threat! Ending result; regional instability on the Asian subcontinent.
The US trade deficit is going to grow as expected acording to plan. The trade deficit will result to the a control of immigration into the US and a control over other countries' economies.
Zakoomu R.
mes ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
mes ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To make matters worse, the dollar is losing its value fast, so one has to send more dollars to support relatives back home, and; the spectre of high interest rates looms as the US trade deficit grows ... plus the cost hegemony, etc etc
�The Working Poor�: Can�t Win for Losing
February 15, 2004
By RON SUSKIND
The phrase ''working poor'' doesn't carry much weight in
this fractious political season. It slips by in a campaign
speech, with nothing much to grab onto as it passes. It
suffers from a kind of blunt-edged simplicity -- a
collision of enormous, rounded terms that, by the lights of
American exceptionalism, should not be joined. Both
political parties quietly agree that it is an ugly,
unsettling combination -- that any American who works
steadily should not have to suffer the barbed indignities
of poverty. But Americans do -- millions of them. There are
35 million people in the country living in poverty. Most of
the adults in that group work nowadays; many of them work
full time. And while there are heavy concentrations of
African-Americans and white single women in the mix, the
group is every bit as diverse, and diffuse, as the nationis.
Which presents a central problem for David Shipler in his
powerful new book, ''The Working Poor: Invisible in
America'': how do you write a treatise on something as vast
and many-hued as an ocean, a forest, the sky? Shipler knows
this and, somehow, proceeds undaunted. A former New York
Times reporter, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his book ''Arab
and Jew,'' and then managed to wrap his arms around the
classically obstreperous topic of race in America with ''A
Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America.'' This
is what he's become known for: tackling the unwieldy.
Of course, Shipler has plenty of company in writing about
fault-line issues of the American experiment, like race,
class and the nature of opportunity. But it is an area
populated in the past decade or two by writers -- like Alex
Kotlowitz in ''There Are No Children Here'' or, more
recently, Barbara Ehrenreich, who chronicled her personal
journey as a low-wage worker in ''Nickel and Dimed'' -- who
incline toward the power of personal narrative. In the
first few chapters of ''The Working Poor,'' Shipler shows,
inadvertently, why so many journalists have made that
choice. He lunges forward at the book's start with some
sweeping judgments, like ''the rising and falling fortunes
of the nation's economy have not had much impact on these
folks'' and ''the skills for surviving in poverty have
largely been lost in America'' -- both debatable issues --
and introduces a racially diverse, thinly connected army of
poor workers, some appearing for just a paragraph or two.
Parts of an early chapter titled ''Importing the Third
World'' read like a dissertation on sweatshop cash flows.
I suggest that readers -- and this is clearly one of those
seminal books that every American should read and read now
-- stick with it. Shipler, like the man who pays to wrestle
a behemoth at the county fair, is just trying to get
leverage on an indomitable opponent. By the fourth chapter,
just a third of the way, his strategy takes shape: he's
wearing down the giant. Shipler's subjects, many of whom he
spent nearly seven years following with meticulous empathy,
begin to reappear in the text. Their stories start to
deepen, mixed with complex insights that Shipler
interweaves judiciously. In the chapter ''Harvest of
Shame,'' he deftly shows how government crackdown on
illegal immigrants creates ''migration within the
migration,'' as an army of immigrant workers races from
strict-enforcement states like Ohio to more lenient ones
like North Carolina, and notes that ''when a migrant stops
moving . . . he starts to enter America.'' There are
employers like Jimmy Burch -- a North Carolina farm owner
-- who co-signs loans for new trailers for his workers. He
has an interest. His workers do, too. He says he's ''never
been burned'' with a de fault -- not yet. Shipler never
shies away from noting the employer's power, but by
embracing complexity, and trusting the reader to be up to
the task, he burns off the easy illusions of hero versus
villain that so often addle journalism.
Doing that frees the writer to ask a set of questions off
limits to many practitioners of what is called ''poverty
literature.'' Kevin Fields, a beefy 280-pound
African-American man, with a shaved head, gold earring and
a felony conviction for effectively fighting off a street
gang, is virtually unemployable. Men with a similar arrest
record, but different profiles, have less difficulty.
''Violence,'' Shipler points out, ''has a longstanding
place in many whites' images of blacks. So, if you are
black, if you are a man, if you are large and strong, or if
you have a prison record, you are likely to be perceived as
a person with a temper, a vein of rage.''
Half of all poor families are heade d by single women, and,
in a chapter titled ''Sins of the Fathers,'' Shipler
doesn't flinch from delving into how many struggling women
were sexually abused as children. The evolving estimates
show the outlines of an epidemic. Kara King, a white New
Hampshire mother, was molested by her father, who told her
''that's the way a father and a daughter are.'' The effects
-- ''a paralyzing powerlessness'' that ''mixes corrosively
with other adversities that deprive those in or near
poverty of the ability to effect change'' -- are visible
each time Kara and her family appear in the book.
The same goes for other subjects whose jumbled lives serve
to illuminate various elements of this enormous topic. The
reader learns the issues; knows the aching heart. What
takes shape is an ensemble play that weaves together
traditional feature reporting, digressions about ''best
evidence'' and a few passionate expository arias to display
''the constellation of difficulties,'' as Shipler puts it,
that defines working poverty. It defines the lives of
millions of Americans.
Toward the book's finish, Shipler tries to harness the
outrage provoked by his characters' stories to examine the
question of what can be done. He shifts his focus to
programs for job training, early childhood care and
remedial education (that alone meriting a domestic Marshall
Plan, considering that 14 percent of American adults can't
find an intersection on a map, total a deposit slip or
determine the correct dose of a medication). The author's
efforts, here, are uneven. Programmatic solutions, after
all, are the hard, ungainly work of hours and inches.
Shipler's frustration seems to get the best of him when he
is talking about unenthusiastic students, bad teaching and
the way dreams of future success are little more than ''a
notion carried on a breeze of impulse.''
But alongside these broad, imperfect efforts, Shipler
threads a glowing filament: the telling acts of kindness,
so often just small offerings, that lift both giver and
receiver. It's the little traps and trips that foil those
at the bottom. When you have no bank account, no car, no
health insurance, it inverts the slogan of that
best-selling self-help book: You have to sweat the small
stuff. A modest mishap to someone who can land on a cushion
of nominal security can land a poor person on the pavement,
often literally. Caroline Payne, with a two-year
associate's degree and no teeth, can't afford dentures. No
one wants to hire her. When she finally gets a job in a
Procter & Gamble factory, all is almost lost when the
plant's rotating shift policy leaves her unable to care for
her daughter one week every month. A friend steps up; her
job is saved. In the book's last section, Kara King is
fighting cancer. Her husband, Tom, has no car to the drive
the two hours to a Boston hospital for visits. It's
crushing to read. When a local car dealer gives him a
loaner it feels like the healing of the world. The working
poor -- that enormous cohort -- are easily outnumbered by
America's broad middle class. Most experts agree: lifting a
poor worker to the uplands of self-sufficiency takes a
concerted, many-pronged effort. In that mix, invariably,
must be someone willing to lend a hand, to make even a
little sacrifice.
Shipler's underlying mission, no doubt, is identical to
that of the narrative stylists who toil among America's
underclass: to press readers beyond appraising poverty's
causes and effects, so often inventoried for swift, harsh
judgment, to the deeper understanding that the working poor
are really us. ''I hope this book,'' Shipler writes, ''will
help them to be seen.'' In short, he wants to give readers
something to hold onto.
Then, the questions tend to be about t he ''hows'' -- how
we, as a country, might now act. Readers, by the last page,
can scarcely avoid that question, or the larger algorithm
that Shipler offers: ''To appraise a society, examine its
ability to be self-correcting. When grievous wrongs are
done or endemic suffering exposed, when injustice is
discovered or opportunity denied, watch the institutions of
government and business and charity. Their response is an
index of a nation's health and of a people's strength.''
Ron Suskind's latest book is ''The Price of Loyalty.'' He
is the author of ''A Hope in the Unseen: An American
Odyssey From the Inner City to the Ivy League.''
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