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To: LowCountryJoe

Fair enough. I’m not really interested in your income though.

I’m a programmer. Over the last 5-10 years I have watched perhaps a full hundred of my co-workers walked out of the office by security. Some in tears. Their stuff in a box.

And yes, that sort of p*sses me off.

Your turn.


77 posted on 11/29/2007 8:15:37 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (I'm a "Yankee Doodle Protectionist". A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam... Walton.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I am a Paraprofessional (teaching assistant) in a classroom with kids with severe disabilities, in a public school system. I make $20,000 a year, so I am not someone who directly benefits from international trade because of entrepreneurship.

I am in the mist of passing my state's exams so that I can teach Business, Economics, or Middle Grade Mathematics. The current generation is in desperate need of teachers who challenge them and don't fill their heads with collectivist garbage. It'll be a good gig when I secure an actual teaching position and the taxpayer money will be well spent, at least in my case...I know my stuff and can teach it if given the benefit of a receptive audience (or at least one that hasn't bought into the stupid shit that gets parroted by pundits who should know better).

I've done many things in my career and I have not been afraid to quit a job -- with notice -- if I become dissatisfied or find an all-around better opportunity; I do not fear competing for employment, either. The job I'm most proud of having: a 10-year active duty United States Marine that achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant.

Satisfied, now, that I am not I high society type and who's rather just an average Joe?

87 posted on 11/29/2007 8:30:07 PM 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: Cringing Negativism Network

Fair enough. I’m not really interested in your income though.

I’m a programmer. Over the last 5-10 years I have watched perhaps a full hundred of my co-workers walked out of the office by security. Some in tears. Their stuff in a box.

And yes, that sort of p*sses me off.

Your turn.

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Well according to the free-traders, you are obsolete in this new global economy. In fact, 99% of Americans are obsolete. There are 4 billion more people willing to do your job for far far less. Doesn’t matter if they aren’t American either.

Free-traders are totally incapable of discriminating between interstate trade and international trade. This makes them nationless, unpatriotic, unAmerican. Their citizenship should be revoked if they want to be a citizen of the world.


215 posted on 11/30/2007 7:39:58 PM PST by Hunterite
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