"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" wrote in
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:22:15 -0400, "Douglas W. \"Popeye\" Frederick"
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You'll need proof, of course, that they're your e-mails.
They'll all have to be signed Gunner Asch.
Nope..they all have to originate from or
several others with spam protection built in
And I dont need to provide anything. You mean dick in the grand scheme
of things and are simply a bit of snot flicked on the wall, that I
note in disgust in passing
Snicker
Gunner
Are you employed at the moment? Is your job currently threatened by the
presence of cheaper workers?
It's obvious that his job would be threatened by cheap workers even if he
was employed.
Here's what's NOT obvious to him: The financial structure of many American
manufacturers has been completely reshaped around the idea of having goods
made overseas where labor is cheaper. This trend probably won't be reversed
unless we go to war with China, or when machinery is invented which can make
things even cheaper at plants in this country. In other words, the system is
here to stay.
The other factor which pushes this trend is our price expectations. I just
emailed Lands End to check my memory, but if I recall the last time I bought
American made dress shirts from them, they cost $25-$30, maybe more. That
was at least 10 years ago. I wonder what they'd cost now if they were still
made here. I would've paid more because I tend to take good care of them,
but somehow, they (and LL Bean, Van Heusen and everyone else) got the idea
that it was better to have them made overseas. But, I may not be the typical
buyer.
This relates to illegal workers because we are also accustomed to certain
price levels for goods and services created here. I've paid between 99 cents
and $1.79 per pound for Romaine or green leaf lettuce over the past couple
of years, depending on season. I wonder how Gunner would react if lettuce
suddenly cost $4.00 per pound because the harvesting had to be done by
citizens who expected quite a bit more than minimum wage for the hard work.
I suspect Gunner has not spent any time in a restaurant kitchen, either. In
his book about the restaurant business, Anthony Bourdain commented that if
you can't speak a little Spanish, and get along well with foreigners, you
can kiss your restaurant goodbye. Foreigners have been the backbone of
restaurant kitchens for much longer than their immigration status has been a
political football.
Assuming you could replace many workers with high school kids (which you
can't, because they don't want these jobs), and your $15.00 entree becomes
much more costly. All the produce that cannot be harvested by machines will
become luxury items, like lobster. Gunner has no solution for this.