Posted on 01/28/2006 9:28:18 AM PST by Willie Green
WHICH YOU ENDORSE!!!
Who would that be, Mexico? Their greatest exports into the US to date continue to be drugs and illegal aliens. Simply transferring American wealth to these countries is doing little for them or us. If they're not capable of creating wealth on their own to begin with like Europe, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and North America have then there's little we can do for them.
Tonelson, PCR and Hawkins. Has anyone ever seen them together at the same time? It's always the same list of complaints only with different bylines. Coincidence? //tin foil off.
It's more like you're encouraging it when you tell Americans "we're in a global economy now" so work for minimum wage chump, no matter your education level.
How do employers reconcile offering low wages in a worker "glut", but claim they can't find "skilled" workers (willing to work for their low wages) and need cheap foreigners during a worker "shortage"? And, how is it that firms can outsource jobs overseas while claiming they cannot find skilled workers here? Are they really more skilled than American workers, or just cheaper?
Good post and good posts
Um what I'd like to see is for this government, no matter who the president go back to traditional trade policies. Yes we can trade with China but if they start dumping on us we're slapping tariffs on them until they behave. Oh and they're going to have to take in our products as well, not put up barriers to protect their markets.
More like "work for what the market will pay".
If you want more than you're worth, fine a sucker to hire you or don't be surprised when you're sitting at home doing nothing.
In a free economy, those 'sucker' companies who pay more than their competitors for the same quality labor will end up out of business.
If you can't deal with that reality, go to DU, maybe that's a fantasy world you'll like better, where socialism solves all!
You said "corporations are packing up". That's crazy. I attempted to share hard numbers but your statement is not reasoned information. It's a heartfelt belief that's immune to logic.
Lots of people disagree with me, and I love talking to the ones who disagree with me on facts because they're the only ones I can get new info from. When you disagree in spite of facts because of a deeply felt but foolish belief, all I can do is urge you not to act foolishly too. Like, please don't blow yourself up or vote to raise my taxes or something.
Go Johnny go...
You have no idea what you're talking about, a tech engineer who spends two or four or six years getting a college degree is certainly worth more than the $20,000 a year they pay in India.They are being forced to compete with such low wages thanks to our own government's policy.
If they weren't then the American free market would decide on its own what the wage level should be for engineers or any other employee of any sector.
It is being artificially depressed and manipulated but since it benefits a small number of people like you apparently that's all fine and dandy.
We all know the score: privatize the profits, socialize the costs.
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It's the Free Traders, the US Chamber of Commerce etc who see what they want to see because they're benefitting quite handsomely from the staus quo.
Can't say that I blame them, it's the government who seems to believe it's all peaches and cream. In fact they're just drooling as they wait for their sovereignty-busting FTAA to get passed...
That's a valid point, but for most of this country's history we prospered without any immigration laws, either.
If it would make you happy we could count Wage and salary workers and not Self-employed workers including those in Private industries but not in Government (link for these and more data here). You can broaden or narrow the listing any way you want, but in view of the fact that you won't say what you want, I'll assume that you fear that if you ever said what you wanted you might actually get it (horrors!) and then you'd have less to complain about.
That's what it's all about: a choice between knowing what's going on or just mindlessly complaining.
After 1924 and up until 1965 there were certainly immigration laws. Only about 250,000 annually were allowed in.
Try this one on for size:
Reagan slaps tariffs on foreign motorcycles. Hero.
Bush 43 slaps tariffs on foreign steel. Goat.
I don't suppose you have a link? Or is this one of those anecdotes I keep hearing from big government protectionist types?
Speaking of statistics, what do you guess is the most valuable type of four-year college degree in the United States? Engineering. Go figure.
Ah, it comes out...the entitlement attitude....
Btw speaking of "big government protectionist types" I'd say that fits the Free Traders to a tee. Strange how they have no problem letting the government setup agreements for them so they can then do business in .50 an hour countries then dump their products back in tariff free.
How sweet it is for Free Traders to have the government make life easy for them. It's kind of like welfare, you know, increase their bottom lines at everyone else's expense. Sure pays to have friends in high places.
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