On 8/1/10 12:03 PM, jps wrote:
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 08:24:18 -0400, wrote:
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:05:45 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:
I was asked last night by someone, when my company would begin to hire
again. I told him I was waiting for a sign. Obviously asked "What
kind of sign" so I told him.
You told him when somebody finally decides to buy something from you,
you'll then hire an offshore worker to provide the product.
Why do you buy off-shore screwdrivers vs. buying US screwdrivers?
You're fixated on screwdrivers. I also drive a German car that's
worth thousands of screwdrivers.
I have a rental right now that was made by Chervrolet. It's a piece
of ****. Poor products don't deserve support, no matter where they're
made.
It's likely those German screwdrivers, as well as your car, was made by
unionized workers. In Europe, that usually means the workers are paid
decently, with good benefits. In the U.S., for the most part, assembly
line jobs are shipped to third world countries where the workers are
exploited.
I hope the U.S. auto industry recovers. Unfortunately, many of the new
unionized workers at U.S. auto plants have been "tiered," in that they
will never make much more than subsistence wages, with greatly reduced
benefits.
I'm going to have to buy another computer printer shortly. The best I
can hope for is that it won't be made in communist china or communist
vietnam.
Oh, and the new country we created - Iraq - is cracking down on its
unionized workers, and these are workers in government-controlled
unions. We've got quite accomplishment in Iraq. We ought to rename it
the Bush-Cheney Abortion.