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When You Hear The Heavy Accent & The Poor Phone Connection...HANG UP!! ____ UGYAiMGRr
Brian D wrote: When our government QUITs letting illegal people remain here and QUITs letting more in, and QUITs giving tax breaks to corporations moving operations overseas and STARTs imposing high excise taxes on import ...THEN you'll see American speaking English and working American jobs. Sure, then all the cheap products and services we've gotten used to will disappear or increase dramatically in price, so your higher wages won't buy you a damn thing. It's nice to sling simple answers around, but the economy is far too complex for them to be useful. All this whining about "outsourcing" and "offshoring" is nothing but a huge red herring. This is nothing new (it's been going on for decades) and it accounts for only ~10% of the job losses we've suffered. The only difference now is in the types of jobs that are going overseas. It used to be only blue-collar manufacturing jobs, but now that it's white-collar tech and service jobs too, people are getting all worked up over it. If we continue to demand cheap products and services - something that isn't likely to change - the trend to move jobs offshore will continue too. Protectionism has never worked, it never will and it's not the answer. Whether you like the global economy or not, it's reality. We all have to live with it and adapt to it. The key to improving the job market is to get the economy rolling again, but that takes time. The indications are good, but it's not going to happen overnight, no matter how much we complain or who's running the country. |
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