Posted on 09/07/2001 8:05:13 AM PDT by super175
Edited on 04/29/2004 1:58:42 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
What a crying welfare queen you are. Hello!!!! Employment for life is for welfare queens! In market driven employment, you have a job while your production is useful.
You really would be happier on the socialist/welfare-queen forum where you can cry all day about your "right" to be free of competition and have a high paying job irrespective of any value you offer to the consumer.
The mortgage company, the landlord, the food store, and the car loan company certainly are concerned about the longevity of your work, not to mention the wife and kids (who have a tendency to like to have a place to live and something to eat).
BTW, What does your company make where you have 10,000 people working on a project temporarily? The only thing I know like that is the large construction projects like I worked for so many years.
Are you still with them? are they still in business? I had the unfortunate experience of working for a large construction company on a $2 billion project - Morrison-Knudsen, which treated it's workers like you are talking about and ended up bankrupt and sold for only about $200 million. I think their company name is around still, but the company certainly isn't.
Your penchant for making wild extrapolations is amusing, and explains your hilarious economic theories.
198 - "The company I worked for had more than 10,000 employees. .... The pay was fine, the conditions were fine. They just weren't sure of the longevity of the work...."
If the conditions and pay were fine, why wouldn't they work for youall????
Now, just whose economic theories don't work? Yours or Kelly/Manpower/mine.
In the capitalistic system you charge what the market will bear - and that goes for laborors too.
In China, it is county goverment? city goverment? province goverment or central goverment? Even village goverment? So most of factories are goverment-owned except for those small shops.
I'm not a Taiwanese, I'm a Chinese in race and an US citizen.
There are not a lot of state-owned businesses in Taiwan, only utility related businesses are owned by the goverment. The reason it is so because 40 years ago private sector did not have the financial strength to operate such businesses. Now Taiwan has private telecom carriers and private oil companys. No private businesses want to get in steel mill and ship building businesses in Taiwan because no profits. Private businesses will pick the right business to get in if there are money to make.
How about China? Private businesses? All of those profitable businesses are monopolized by the goverment. Almost all of the business people I met had to deal with the local goverment one way or the other. I mean let the local goverment OWN something.
If you define goverment-owned as Centrol goverment then I'll agree with you somewhat.
pay your workers the going rate for temporary work, instead of trying to get rich off of them, get a win-win situation going, and you could have happy American workers and a profitable company too.
LOL - If the conditions and pay were fine, why wouldn't they work for youall???? Pay your Americans 10 times their normal salaries, like you are doing with the foreigners, and they would be lining up at the door to work for even you.
"Your penchant for making wild extrapolations is amusing, and explains your hilarious economic theories." "You really would be happier on the socialist/welfare-queen forum where you can cry all day about your "right" to be free of competition and have a high paying job irrespective of any value you offer to the consumer. "
Hey, very selfish, reality ignoring one, just where do you think we live? We live in a country where government is the biggest employer of all.
Try telling the IRS - I won't pay for those socialist programs. Somehow I don't think they will understand.
Just whose economic theories couldn't hire local workers? You seem to just get wilder and wilder. And you still didn't answer my question. In our large construction projects temporary worker numbers generally go from 2000 to 20,000 people building a project.
Because of people like you that try to paint a non-realistic picture of China. Go visit inner provinces and samll towns then come back and tell me what China is.
Go visit train stations at night. Go talk to millions of HOMELESS people in Shanghai then tell me nice houses. One of my cousin is a farmer in a SMALL town (BIG town in US standard), he'll tell you what a GREAT goverment China has.
Been there. Seen that. Certainly there is poverty and hardship in China. My comments were not intended to overlook this fact. By the same hand, you can not say that China is not a significantly more prosperous place and that there is a rising, quite large and satisfied middle class.
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