Posted on 04/13/2008 5:30:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
to all our canadian friends, one might remember...
what sucks for US sucks for you too.
If someone else can do the job cheaper, why expect the job will stay with you?
“I’ve been in Mexico for 20 years and I’ve never seen as much interest in aerospace.”
That’s because the nation of Mexico is populated by poorly educated people for the most part.
I am not wild about flying in an aircraft assembled in Mexico...
What I am getting at is why does the private worker/business have to compete with illegals, legals and outsourcing and imports while local, county, state and Feds need more money so that they and them can live and retire like little kings?
I like how this was right next to the story about the Angela Merkel's plunging neckline.
The public-sector wages should naturally fall, as more private-sector labor becomes available. It’s up to the electorate to be on top of things, to ensure this happens. Unfortunately, few seem to care.
I guess it would depend upon who you intend to sell your products to.
They can do it cheaper in part because they don’t have OSHA, EPA, and any other a assorted anti-corporate entities to jumpe for.
They only have to pay off a bunch of organized gangsters and assorted corrupt government officials. Much cheaper.
Exactly. Part of the total compensation package of American workers is the benefit of the OSHA oversight, etc. So Americans must be prepared to lower their wage expectations if they want these additional protectiosn.
Similarly, people near the physical location of the worksite benefit from the EPA oversight. While the costs hit US companies, it's US residents who benefit from it.
Now ask how many American workers would be willing to give up OSHA protection and go work in Mexico for competitive wages...I think they figure they have a better deal here.
Wages aren't the way to prosperity in the future...in a global market, labor is competitive, and ownership that can take advantage of the lowest costs is where prosperity lies. :-(
Never ever going to happen.
I remember reading about how after The Progressive movement got rid of Tammany Hall in New York City, everyone said it was cheaper, faster and easier to do business under Boss Tweed. Payoffs were cheaper than lawyers and permits, and way way quicker. We are dying under our own paperwork and clerks.
We are.
One of my businesses is life insurance sales.
20 years ago, when I started, an application was 4 pages. Today, the application for (essentially) the same policy is over 100 pages.
Figures are hard to pin down but there is a near consensus that Bombadier has had about $800 million in subsidies since 1982. These are said to be "repayable". So far figures of repayment are about $188 million. Again one has to be careful in taking these figures as absolutely accurate.
I know for sure that about five years ago, Bombadier had made a handsome profit on some deal or other. Yet the Liberal Government still gave them a subsidy. There were faint cries of outrage as I remember. Canadian tax-payers money used to add to their own discomfort.
Poor Canada.
Us tax serfs can be proud we are not subjects!
Socialism is a fickle and filthy whore..
I will, of course, mind my manners and will refrain from entering into "The Great Debate". That debate and it's result will either captivate or enthrall the world or maybe both. It will be the stand off between the nominees. If one person wins and I give her all due credit as a scrapper- She is a battler no less. If she goes on to become President.
All will become subjects! Flame retardant suit on.
True, but in this case it doesn't suck the same way. Most of these Bombardier jobs are union jobs in Quebec that are heavily subsized by the Canadian taxpayer. Taxpayers from the other nine provinces may be quite happy to see these money-pit operations move to Mexico.
Digressing slightly, I have to agree with the poster who mentioned the educational level of most Mexicans. It is even more abysmal than you might think. It's not just that most people are middle-school dropouts and many are illiterate -- the education received by those who graduate from Mexican public schools is of a very low standard.
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