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Walter E. Williams: Some things I wonder about
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| December 31, 2003
| Walter E. Williams
Posted on 12/31/2003 9:03:26 AM PST by xsysmgr
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To: PoorMuttly
The police in Long Island, New York, still tell the story of a wealthy Arab fellow...
Also a myth. Try to find the actual cop who appeared at the scene. You won't.
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posted on
12/31/2003 10:46:47 AM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Police officials view armed citizens like teachers union bosses view homeschoolers.)
To: robertpaulsen
At any rate, I would not call it a frivolous lawsuit. What do you think? Was it frivolous?
Certainly, in retrospect I would not have brought it - the lawyers spent a small fortune on the trial, presumably reimbursed by the parents, who could ill afford it.
Maybe it's easier to get away with silly lawsuits in other places in the country.
To: CobaltBlue
Since every case has to go throw at least two courts to get an acceptable verdict, we should cut the salary of everyone involved (that is paid by the State) in half. We are only getting half value for their service.
I bet they would then have to go to triple levels to get an answer.
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posted on
12/31/2003 11:02:13 AM PST
by
Joe_October
(Saddam supported Terrorists. Al Qaeda are Terrorists. I can't find the link.)
To: Beelzebubba
...seems a lot more likely now...though
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posted on
12/31/2003 11:08:28 AM PST
by
PoorMuttly
("When surrounded...attack !" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: robertpaulsen; smiley
I couldn't do your job more than one day ...tort reform
I used to think my job wasn't that bad-I did closings, wills, legitimate P.I work etc...Helping people in other words. The deeper I went down the rabbit hole the more disgusted I got. Sleazy divorce lawyers who act in tandem to drain a divorcing couples few remaining assets away when they are most vulnerable, bogus P.I lawyers, criminal defense lawyers and overworked and underpaid D.As striking deals to let vermin walk the street, etc...Then one day it hit me-insurance defense. I hold the line on B.S law suits. If I even smell fraud on the plaintiffs behalf I notify the bar and the insurance commission. Don't get me wrong, sometimes people are really injured and should be compensated. On the other hand, I take great joy in kicking the crud out of dime store plaintiff's lawyers.
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posted on
12/31/2003 11:10:17 AM PST
by
MattinNJ
(USA 2-Iraq 0 (The game was not as close as the score would indicate))
To: CobaltBlue
Well, it was certainly easier for the parents to blame the window manufacturer than themselves.
If the newly installed entire window fell out, that's different. A screen? Their attorney should have advised againt the suit, but saw an opportunity to play "legal lotto". I doubt the attorney cost them that much -- he was probably working on a contingency.
Let me say this. I have two children of my own. When they were young and stood by a closed window looking out, I held them around the waist. I was afraid they might break the glass.
A screen? Two stories up? My stomach sinks just thinking about it.
To: xsysmgr
SPOTREP - Assistant Professor of the EIB
To: xsysmgr
bump
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posted on
12/31/2003 1:44:02 PM PST
by
satchmodog9
(it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)
To: xsysmgr
Why should a preference for low prices be OK for you and me, and not so for CEOs? Because they are displacing American workers by doing so. That is immoral and it is illegal. That's the diff...Walt.
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posted on
12/31/2003 1:52:04 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Give me my sweater back...or I'll play the guitar.)
To: xsysmgr
You say: "OK, Williams, you're right. But where are you going? How many times have we heard the accusation that a corporation moved overseas to take advantage of lower-priced labor or hired cheaper-priced Indians with HB-1 visas to replace higher-priced American high-tech workers? You'd think that a desire for lower prices is somehow immoral. Why should a preference for low prices be OK for you and me, and not so for CEOs? Simple answer:
America First!
Any questions?
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posted on
12/31/2003 1:56:47 PM PST
by
Spiff
(Have you committed a random act of thoughtcrime today?)
To: xsysmgr
Read Later Bump!
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posted on
12/31/2003 2:27:31 PM PST
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug and Holier- than- Thou Socialist)
To: xsysmgr
"You say: "OK, Williams, you're right. But where are you going? How many times have we heard the accusation that a corporation moved overseas to take advantage of lower-priced labor or hired cheaper-priced Indians with HB-1 visas to replace higher-priced American high-tech workers? You'd think that a desire for lower prices is somehow immoral. Why should a preference for low prices be OK for you and me, and not so for CEOs?" Williams is all wet on this one. If companies insist on outsourcing high-paying and education-intensive jobs, who will be able to afford to buy their products?
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posted on
12/31/2003 3:31:06 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Excellence in Shameless Self-Promotion)
To: Protagoras
"It seems that many freepers think Americans deserve more money than other people and anyone who trades with anyone else from another country should be prevented from doing so at gunpoint if necessary." Not true. But it is kinda hard paying your bills when your job's been shipped to Bombay.
It's in the company's self-interest not to outsource. But that would require a longer term vision than the next quarter's profits.
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posted on
12/31/2003 3:34:31 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Excellence in Shameless Self-Promotion)
To: Capriole
I wish Dr Williams had his own show. I wouldn't miss it. Well maybe except when I have to get my Jim Rome fix :-)
To: sauropod
If companies insist on outsourcing high-paying and education-intensive jobs, who will be able to afford to buy their products? We have two problems here. First, we have fewer and fewer graduates capable of doing the education-intensive jobs. I was just crabbing to my home-schooled son that, by the time he goes to college, the only courses he'll be able to take are Womyn's Studies and History of Sex.
Second, there's the problem of higher taxes paid by American companies. If they manufacture a product in America and sell it overseas, they're taxed by the foreign government AND the American government. If they make the product overseas and sell it overseas, they're only taxed by the foreign government.
If you leave your money in the foreign country, you're taxed by the foreign country. If you bring it home ("repatriation" of capital), you're taxed by both the foreign government AND the American government.
In many cases, it makes no sense for a company to bring the money, or the jobs, home.
To: PatriotCJC
Well, I am a white woman, but black men like this really send me. I actually think Clarence Thomas is handsome.
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posted on
12/31/2003 5:09:13 PM PST
by
Capriole
(Foi vainquera)
To: reformed_democrat
Agree w/ everything except the part about education-intensive jobs.
When I was going to grad school, there were an awful lot of foreign-born engineering students.
They lived in (generally) worse conditions than most folks did, they didn't complain about spending 20 hour days in the lab, and they tended to be very cliquish.
Very smart people. The courses were also there to teach them.
MY point is that American companies are selling out by taking the short term profit taking of shipping highly technical jobs overseas.
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posted on
12/31/2003 5:28:40 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Excellence in Shameless Self-Promotion)
To: robertpaulsen
Very few, because the party bringing such a case could justly suffer sanctions for bringing filing such a frivolous suit.
Filing fee in my state is almost $300.00. Filing fees and other costs of litigation also discourage wasteful claims.
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posted on
12/31/2003 5:47:15 PM PST
by
Wayland
To: sauropod
duuuuuuuuuuuh, maybe they'll lower the price or go out of business! That's what usually happens if no one can afford your product.
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posted on
12/31/2003 5:55:05 PM PST
by
breakem
To: MattinNJ
Long before I went to business school and started really working, I was a lowly math grad. The job market was pretty rough in '91. Found work as a runner and later a bookkeeper for an insurance defense firm.
I saw the complaint in a suit where a woman was suing for $250k (nothing, I know, but bear with me).
She was in line at Kroger, and one of those old cardboard Coors 6-packs has weakened from condensation - so as it was scanned by the checkout girl, it fell apart and a couple of beers fell out and one landed on her foot.
She was suing, jointly and severally: The Adolph Coors Brewing Company of Golden, CO; The Kroger Corporation; The manufacturer of the cardboard container; the store manager; and the bagboy.
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posted on
12/31/2003 6:00:44 PM PST
by
Yudan
(...I know what I am, and I'm glad I'm a man...And SO IS LOLA!!!)
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