Posted on 03/09/2017 7:56:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 03/09/2017 8:29:27 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
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I don’t know what’s worse, some foreigner’s voice for tech support, or automated computer voices doing telemarketing.
I’m going to make a suggestion that may shock or disturb some folks. Others will immediately see the logic. We should begin serious discussions on making the main Philippine Islands into a 51st state. Most philippinos I’ve met are very industrious and job focused. They have good family values and the majority are still Christian. China would be furious!!
Maybe some day. According to history books, the Philippines used to be an American Territory from 1898 to 1946.
No doubt there are some who would disagree with any such proposal.
What they ought to worry about is nuclear incineration - I'd vote for it. I'll bet that their automated phone system is not EMP proof or neutron bomb proof - well on the other hand they say that the only thing that will survive nuclear annihilation are cock-roaches, so maybe I am being optimistic.
That idea has been around for a long time. Might I suggest splitting them into 2 or 4 states due to their big population? Wouldn’t Red China brit a schick if we suddenly had states on their doorstep?
The Phillipinos like us. Mr. Dutarte? He needs to be cut down a notch.
He’s one man and he’s over 70 years old.
I know they really try hard. And I don’t dislike those people. But good lord most of them are insanely hard to interact with.
Foreign call centers in some fields are so bad as to almost be useless.
Including most Filipinos.
Remember "Civilize 'em with a Krag?
I know Pres. Duarte would blow a gasket.
He can get as firey and blustery as Hugo in Venezuela used to do about Pres. Bush.
The Tydings McDuffie act sort of removed that possibility. Doubt you would get many votes in the P. I. for renewing colonialism.
Do salary surveys in each country and add a surtax to the business taxes that equalizes the cost with American workers. The article says the average cost of a Philipine worker is $19K and the equivalent worker in America is $93K, see how the business likes getting a tax bill for $74K per worker plus $15K for the evaded FICA taxes.
I don’t think anything less than the naked force of tax penalties — not tariffs, not border adjustment taxes, VATs, GRTs, or lower corporate tax rates — will convince American businesses that it just isn’t worth replacing American workers with foreign workers in some 3rd world hole.
They can wait.
Alberta should be the 51st with how it’s going up here, there are far more immediate economic benefits to be had heh.
The Philippines can be 52nd.
No,
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