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To: Willie Green
I have, I do. Automation is the real issue, outsourcing is a sideshow. We are wealthier today than in 1990, we were wealthier then than in 1980. Automation eliminates union jobs. Overseas outsourcing is a temporary expedient.
25 posted on 12/05/2003 2:43:13 PM PST by narses ("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria)
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To: narses
Automation eliminates union jobs.

No it doesn't. It displaces relatively low-skilled jobs (regardless of any union affiliation, if any) with fewer, but higher skilled jobs.

"The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work."

-- Henry Ford

And as I stated bluntly before, globalized outsourcing operates opposite to this approach: it utilizes cheaper labor and less sophisticated manufacturing processes to undercut the capital investment necessary for automation.

Incidently, lax safety and environmental regulations in foreign nations also undercut capital investment requirements vis a vis domestic production facilities.

28 posted on 12/05/2003 2:57:26 PM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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