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To: unseen
Or maybe after your job is outsourced and the government (i.e taxpayers) must pay for your retraining/reeducation you will see the light. Just think that taxpayer funded retraining adds to the GDP. There's always hope.

There's a bit of unintended humor here. I did have the taxpayer pay for my higher education but not because my job was outsourced. I qualified under Chapter 30 of the Montgomery GI Bill and used all but one month of 36 months worth of benefits earning an Associates degree in Liberal Arts and then a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Economics.

Now, properly understood, the government expense to educate me should have been a net wash on GDP as many others had their C (or maybe I) lowered by the same amount the G was increased. But the truth is is that the taxes put in place to raise G created a dead weight loss that lowered C (or maybe I) more than G was raised. However, if my lifetime production is increased more than it would have been if I had not pursued the degrees, then the investment in my human capital would have increased GDP through time and would have been with worth the investment. You can argue whether or not the GI Bill is a good program but it does not change the fact that it was a promised entitlement to me - as long as I chose to use it - for electing to serve this country and in an honorable fashion.

518 posted on 03/17/2006 3:49:03 AM PST by LowCountryJoe (I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
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To: LowCountryJoe
Well lucky for us so far the globalists have not figured out a way to outsource the jobs within the army, however, if the current trend continues that may not be true in say 10 years . Blue helmets anyone?
519 posted on 03/17/2006 7:21:42 AM PST by unseen
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