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Outsourcing the American dream for nightmare
Sidney Herald ^ | Tuesday January 17, 2006 | Ellen Robinson

Posted on 01/17/2006 8:02:19 AM PST by Willie Green

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.

Inspired by a reader who sent a list of once American corporations who's profits are no longer funneled to the hard-working American employee, I investigated the subject.

The clip that landed on my desk was from "America is Selling Out," published in The American Conservative, December, 2005. As I digested, emotionally charged from the publication's Web site at www.economyincrisis.org, I agreed with some of the information, discarded the sensational propaganda and extrapolated my take on the issues' raw facts.

From what I've experienced and witnessed first-hand, I consider the current state of the American economy as a politically driven "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" economic model.

There are too many alarming signs in our country for the politicians to actually be blindly racing the mad horse into the flaming barn as it might appear. The social-economic gaps in our nation are at record heights. In recent years, there have been more billionaires than ever, more fresh college graduates filing bankruptcy than ever and increasing numbers of the middle class economically sinking.

Sadly, this is all by design, not some directionless fluke. Since the rich are richer than ever and the most profitable corporations are breaking records, the misled reports boast positive economic growth that are not a true reflection to what has happened to the nation's work force as a result of active globalization.

The weight has gotten heavier for those who pull the load - the American population - because it's the increased sweat that fuels the skyrocketing extravagance of the filthy elite few. This is the reversal point of the American Dream into the American Nightmare.

The current American economic model seems like a reversal of Robin Hood. The big and powerful are profiting and becoming even more powerful as the comfortable livings of the endangered middle class are reallocated for the increasingly exclusive and isolated pockets of wealth hoarders.

No one who is aware will deny that the corporations who apparently are running this country are outsourcing our jobs. The rationalization for the mass outsourcing is to provide American consumers with cheaper products. It almost makes sense that consumables should be cheaper since the displaced workers no longer have the higher-paying jobs to afford historically high-quality, American-made products.

The American Dream - the belief that through hard work, courage and determination one can achieve prosperity - has vanished in the atmosphere of this greed and power driven frenzy.

These days it's looking more like the American Dream is being outsourced in exchange for the American Nightmare which the vast majority of the nation's population is waking up to in this cheaper reality.


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To: Willie Green

I have been trying to figure out a way to outsource our American railroads. I suppose that we could hire the Irish or Chinese to run them (considering that's who built them), but I can't figure out how to physically move the tracks and rolling stock offshore. Any ideas?


161 posted on 02/09/2006 4:12:02 AM PST by LibertarianCandidate
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To: B4Ranch

You don't think that the US is actually going to pay off this debt do you? When the annaual debt service payments get to be too high (in a few years when the Social Security fund cash flow turns negative), the Congress will vote to repudiate the debt, pure and simple. We will leave the foreign suckers holding the bag full of worthless IOUs.


162 posted on 02/09/2006 4:23:38 AM PST by LibertarianCandidate
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To: Rodney King
I'll gladly trade you one bushel of wheat for your computer and your TV. Oh, whats that, you would rather have the computer and the TV? I thought you said wheat was more important.

You really are a lousy analogist. A computer and a tv are made up of hundreds of components and comparing that to a bushel of wheat shows just how lacking in comparative skills you are.

More super-capitalist drivel from someone who thinks that tvs and computers are more important than wheat.

163 posted on 02/09/2006 4:45:21 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: raybbr
You really are a lousy analogist. A computer and a tv are made up of hundreds of components and comparing that to a bushel of wheat shows just how lacking in comparative skills you are. More super-capitalist drivel from someone who thinks that tvs and computers are more important than wheat.

LOL. If wheat was more important than a TV, then why doesn't it cost more? The fact that the TV is made up of multiple components is irrelevent, because you said that wheat was more important than a TV(which includes all of those componenets). So, since you think wheat is more important than a TV, why won't you trade me your TV for a bushel of wheat? Clearly, you think the TV is more important.

164 posted on 02/09/2006 5:50:23 AM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
First, I can tell that your comprehension skills are limited because I did not say the wheat was more important. Unless of course, you are trying to eat either one.

Second, why limit it to a bushel? You once again are not able to draw a true comparison exposing yourself as disingenous.

Lastly, I suppose a super-capitalist will think he can actually feed his children with a computer instead of a bushel or more of wheat, since it is more valuable.

165 posted on 02/09/2006 6:46:23 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: raybbr
I did not say the wheat was more important.

Yes, you did. There is no point in talking with you further since all you do is insult people.

166 posted on 02/09/2006 12:53:35 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: raybbr
Lastly, I suppose a super-capitalist will think he can actually feed his children with a computer instead of a bushel or more of wheat, since it is more valuable.

Why would you suppose that? Why does one need to think that one can feed a TV to a child because it is more valuable than a bushel of wheat?

Once again, I will gladly trade you a bushel of wheat for your TV. Since the wheat is more valuable, you should be happy to take it.

167 posted on 02/09/2006 12:56:50 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
Yes, you did.

Show me where I said wheat was more important than computers an tvs.

168 posted on 02/09/2006 2:47:12 PM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: raybbr
"More super-capitalist drivel from someone who thinks that tvs and computers are more important than wheat."

Any reasonable person would take that as an assertion that you think wheat is more imporant than TV's.

Now, once again, please explain why you won't trade me your TV for a bushel of wheat since to claim that a TV is more valuable than wheat is in your words "drivel".

169 posted on 02/09/2006 3:46:14 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King
Now, once again, please explain why you won't trade me your TV for a bushel of wheat since to claim that a TV is more valuable than wheat is in your words "drivel".

Could they be equally important? Or are trinkets like computers more important than food?

Wheat, as a commodity, is far more important than tvs and computers will ever be. Wheat feeds people.

Why you insist on a bushel is fatuous. Let's make it a truckload or two?

170 posted on 02/09/2006 4:28:38 PM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: raybbr
Why you insist on a bushel is fatuous. Let's make it a truckload or two?

OK, Good. I have you thinking the right way now... to say that wheat is more important than TV's, or that TV's are more important than wheat is totally meaningless without considering the price that they are going for in the market.

171 posted on 02/09/2006 4:58:57 PM PST by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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