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Bush: Outsourcing painful, but remedy is worse
CNN.com ^ | Friday, March 3, 2006 Posted: 1640 GMT (0040 HKT)

Posted on 03/04/2006 2:25:11 PM PST by Gengis Khan

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Praising India's expanding economy, President Bush warned Friday that fears about job outsourcing to other nations should not prompt the United States to limit global trade. "It's ... important to remember that when someone loses a job it's an incredibly difficult period for the worker and their families," Bush said in a speech in New Delhi. "It's true that some Americans have lost jobs when their companies move their operations overseas," he said. "Some people believe the answer to this problem is to wall off our economy from the world through protectionist policies. I strongly disagree."

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To: Logophile
Why? Are engineers the only ones who are ever laid off?

No. But why to invest time and money in mastering engineering skills if you do not have good career perspectives? Looks like managing is more lucrative than producing.

141 posted on 03/04/2006 6:59:31 PM PST by A. Pole (If the lettuce cutters were paid $10 more per hour, the lettuce head would cost FIVE CENTS more.)
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To: A. Pole
No. But why to invest time and money in mastering engineering skills if you do not have good career perspectives? Looks like managing is more lucrative than producing.

I won't ask you to trust me, but US companies have become so overladen in the "manager to producer" level that an engineering degree is a great thing to have, IMHO. Unfortunately, the producers now have a couple managers standing around expecting results........

142 posted on 03/04/2006 7:05:43 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: ScreamingFist
What ARE you babbling on about?

Stop hijacking the thread and posting whatever you damn feel like!

My original reply, which you gloomed onto, was to a poster who said that the Kennedys and the Bushes have NEVER done any "real work". Whilst that be true of some of the Kennedys, it isn't of the Bush family.

Manual labor isn't the only kind of work there is. Neither is no need for any real skill/intelligence jobs worth big bucks.

143 posted on 03/04/2006 7:05:54 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

?


144 posted on 03/04/2006 7:07:27 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: nopardons
My original reply, which you gloomed onto, was to a poster who said that the Kennedys and the Bushes have NEVER done any "real work". Whilst that be true of some of the Kennedys, it isn't of the Bush family.

You posted to me, I replied. Get Screwed.

145 posted on 03/04/2006 7:09:23 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: BW2221
SOUNDS LIKE A FOOTBALL PRE-GAME PEP TALK

If I was doing that, I would have done Belushi's, "Was it over when the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor" speech in Animal House. :)

146 posted on 03/04/2006 7:12:09 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ScreamingFist

Common granny, keep slapping that abuse button....


147 posted on 03/04/2006 7:13:51 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: Gengis Khan
Here's the winning formula.

First drink this:

Then insult opponents by accusing them of never having studied this: (which you've never studied yourself)

If that doesn'twork claim to be a university professor:

And if that doesn't work, claim to have worked in the industry:


148 posted on 03/04/2006 7:14:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: ScreamingFist

Knock it off.


149 posted on 03/04/2006 7:16:03 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: ScreamingFist; Shermy
One simple fact that destroys all the crap that you are spewing: We have the lowest unemployment rate in the industrial world. This ends the debate.
150 posted on 03/04/2006 7:16:28 PM PST by jveritas (Hate can never win elections.)
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To: nopardons

Knock it off.


151 posted on 03/04/2006 7:16:34 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: ScreamingFist
No, my original reply was to the poster Thorin.

He has yet to reply to me, unless that is also your nic.

You barged in, replied, irrelevantly, to my reply to him.

152 posted on 03/04/2006 7:17:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: jveritas
We have the lowest unemployment rate in the industrial world. This ends the debate.

Granted. We have the lowest unemployment rate "now". I don't hang my hat on "now". How's Germany and France doing? They already went to the globalist model of employment.

153 posted on 03/04/2006 7:21:04 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: Gengis Khan

George really feels our pain having worked his way up. I don't know why I voted for this guy.


154 posted on 03/04/2006 7:22:12 PM PST by dljordan
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To: jveritas

Not really, you are just going off topic. Unemployment rate has little to do with globalization and more to do with domestic policies that are against the welfare state (such as smaller unemployment insurance, health insurance tied to employers). It doesn't prove anything about globalization, low unemployment rate doesn't show that globalization has been good for the US. The debate continues.


155 posted on 03/04/2006 7:24:20 PM PST by gogoman
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To: ScreamingFist
Granted. We have the lowest unemployment rate "now". I don't hang my hat on "now". How's Germany and France doing? They already went to the globalist model of employment

Actually Germany and France have more restrictive labor laws than the US. It's almost impossible to fire or layoff an employee there and look they have double digit unemployment.

You are the one promoting the German and French model.

156 posted on 03/04/2006 7:24:43 PM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Thorin
It will be a great day for America when we outsource the jobs of people who've never done a real day's work (i.e., every member of the Bush and Kennedy families) and preserve the jobs of the American middle class.

Co-sign.

Although I would add the Kerrys, Liebermans, and Kudlows to that list.

157 posted on 03/04/2006 7:26:34 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: jveritas
We have the lowest unemployment rate in the industrial world. This ends the debate.

Oh? Links to supporting evidence and to the description of methodologies used to compile data? (FYI: It's random "scientific" telephone surveys in the US!)

158 posted on 03/04/2006 7:27:23 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

Would you explain what "REAL WORK" is?


159 posted on 03/04/2006 7:27:46 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Dane
You are the one promoting the German and French model.

Do you mean I'm supporting it by being against outsourcing?

160 posted on 03/04/2006 7:28:11 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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