Posted on 03/07/2004 11:39:58 AM PST by jmstein7
Having quit my job in October, I can relate to the fear of being out of work. Having worked for Democrat spokesman Ellen Rat...ner’s family for over 8 years in the evil lumber industry. Ellen Rat...ner made her money by “raping” the forests as one of the top three lumber companies (Forest City Group), yet she is the biggest environmentalist on the planet?? Can you say limolib empathizing with the poor homeless on her way to the gala wearing a half mil in jewels??? So I quit working for her big corporation and started my own little company and am having the time of my life. Anyone ever wonder how many filthy rich are Rats??
For self motivated people, working for yourself is the only way to go. The benefits far outweigh the minuses. You may have to work twice as hard for half the pay or you may end up making more money than you will working for a corporation. In my case I am making more money and not working nearly as hard as I was. I am putting people to work in the Carolinas and Virginia that may not be working if I didn’t open this company.
What do I do besides surf the net? I am a lumber wholesaler who feeds the Log Home industry. This gives me plenty of opportunity for creativity while developing a niche in a growing market. Self employment is being repeated throughout this country as people who have spent a lifetime learning a profession are able to break out on their own. We don’t need or want a boss or a union to tell us how much we can or can’t earn. Not everyone can do this, but you may be surprised how easy it is once you take that first step.
I can speak to the job losses in the solid wood furniture industry throughout the South. You have to look no farther than Congress and lawyers to see why they have left. Yes, labor and materials are cheaper in China; but the gummit is far more friendly to businesses there too. When employers cannot pay the workman’s compensation due to John Edward’s type Ambulance Chasers and oppressive gummit regulation, why would any company stay here? The lumber industry has taken the most draconian regulations of any industry in this country. Loggers can’t even harvest dead trees left by the huge fires because of the hug a tree terrorists? Why shouldn’t the companies close their doors after the Democrats and their leftist extremists have finished with them. Rats hate big business and cry when there are no jobs when businesses are forced out.
Sure, PravdABDNC will blame W for the job losses and not give him credit for this economic recovery. Most of this recovery is happening because productivity and technology is up. Many of the manufacturing jobs are being mechanized and will in the future. With software there are millions of bookkeeping/buggy whip jobs that are being phased out. The bottom line is that computers work a lot faster and cheaper than workers. Kerry is just going to make this happen quicker as he forces labor expenses up.
Anybody that will work for anything can get work at a 94.5% employment rate. Go into sells and get paid what you are truly worth. For all those that think sells is below their dignity, salesmen generally make about 150% of the average and many are in the top 10% of incomes. Nothing happens in Capitalism until the sale is closed.
President Bush has done a Herculean job over the past 3 years as this country has been knocked down again and again and is finally recovering. Everybody knew that the economy was faltering when he took the job and Great Depression was mentioned more than once. He had to unravel the dot com bust and dishonesty from the past 10 years to regain trust in the markets. He still has huge hurdles to overcome with deregulating many of the industries and opening our natural resources to effective management. There are great untapped resources for us that are entrepreneurs looking to put our skills and crafts to the test. We can either move forward as a country and mighty Capitalistic machine or move backwards towards Socialist France and endure their turd world lifestyle.
Pray for W and The Truth
I say we should own them.
The problem with that approach is what we are now finding happening in China. Exports from China were almost exclusively (1) Foreign invested enterprises setting up wholly owned factories or in the early days setting up joint ventures with Chinese companies (the later very much a thing of the past now) or (2) Foreign companies finding semi-competant Chinese companies to make the goods they wanted and working with them to bring finished product to exportable standard.
The exception to this were the few stand out private Chinese companies that became successful in the new Chinese ecomonmy - Legend Computer and Little Swan home appliances being a couple of examples.
But what is happening now is that employees working at those wholly owned foreign companies have taken what they have learned and starting making products. And, those companies that learned to produce for a foreign company started looking for other business and are now actively seeking new business through direct foreign trade.
To get to your point, no one will "own" all the business places like India or China. They will find much competition from companies in those countries. And those with far more modest operating standards and no foreign investors to answer to or expat staff to pay are a real competitive challenge.
For now, the foreign companies will have a marketing and sales advantage - especially since the Chinese seem to have a habbit of pissing off their foreign customers do to cultural differences. But, that will change also.
I am convinced the only answer to save American jobs and American strength in the world and U.S. marketplace is for the government, labor unions and lawyers to stop treating American business like evil garbage for their pickings.
Despite all the recent moaning about "outsourcing" that day is not here yet. Things will get much worse and to a very sad state of affairs before people figure out what the Chinese learned: A company must first make a profit. And isn't it ironic that the concept of profit has become a dirty word in the U.S. and so seriously embraced in a communist country like China.
We "own" the largest market, the world standard currency, the world bank, and the best logistics/transportation systems around, all backed by the best military in the world.
We own the market place AND we produce against their own, on their own turf, paying their best and brightest ten times the per capita income for level entry IT jobs, working for us, and competing against their own industry.
We don't need to own all the business, we just need to own enough of it to exert control over all of it.
Kerry, who is personally endorsed by Haiti's Aristide, Iran's Mullahs, Traitor "Red Jane" Fonda, Kim Jong Il, (& Kim Il Jong), Mugabe, Marxist thug Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, & France's Jacques Chirac, is a weapon of mass economic destruction.
He'll destroy the troops in Iraq, the War on Terrorism,
& the U.S. stock market with all his negative talk and whiny-leftist-liberal sour-puss troop-bashing, Bush-bashing, America-bashing talk & self-aggrandizing, ultra-negative sourpuss whiny elitist personality.
That was actually a typo on my part. It should have ready, not one is going to own "the business" in places like China and India = as in have it all, be so dominant that they don't need to worry about competition, as in "own the town" or in this case country.
To think otherwise is very dangerous. Underestimating the competition is always a mistake. Far better to take the steps we should be making now.
It doesn't take a professor of economics to see that job outsourcing is a direct result of over taxation (on business), over government regulation, and the out and out greed of the idiots that pass these business ripping laws.
The only thing that government can do to improve the economy is get their hands out of our pockets and get out of the way of productive momentum. Reduce taxes on all of us, abolish the oppressive regulations, and learn to live on less in the government sector. Prices will go down, wages will go up, unemployment will go down, productivity will go up. Very simple, isn't it?
Now, where is my faculty position in the Econ department at Harvard?
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