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Short Wave Sportfishing
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Stolen honor.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:45:05 -0000,
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On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:49:27 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
I suppose if we make the penalties against the western economies strong
enough (and crash them) the resulting nuclear war will reverse the
warming trend and cut way back on that pesky population growth.
That is really the issue - it's another attempt to redistribute income
only on an internationlist scale.
If that really is the issue, you are looking to blame the wrong people.
It isn't the environmentalists, it's the capitalists. If we are buying
all the out-sourced, pollution intensive products of the eastern
economies, who's pollution is it really? The Chinese, or ours? Part of
the "attractiveness" of out-sourcing is, in addition to the dollar a day
wages, companies don't have to put up with our pesky pollution laws.
I would say that if Koyoto was truly fair rather than exclusionary (as
in developing countries have to adhere to the same standard as the
developed countries), then you would have a level playing field.
It's not the fault of those who run business to try and drive
productivity up and costs down - that's the way you run a business.
However, if you enforce an unfair standard on your own manufacturing
base by requiring major retrofits, unfair regulation and state/federal
interference in how you run your business (I'm speaking of
environmental interference - although...) then you force the same
business to go where they can get the productivity and costs to stay
in business. That's the way it works.
With respect to outsourcing, it's the same, only the twist there is
education. If you have a highly trained and efficient work force just
sitting offshore waiting for something to do, you take advantage of
it.
To get round to the point once again, it's all about productivity and
costs - if you can do the same job cheaper somewhere else, that's the
imperative for a business. It's good for the company, it's good for
the shareholders. And in the end, that's income redistribution.
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