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To: KDD
Yes. The unions have been destroying our manufacturing base in this country...

Say it ain't so. I left off the /sarcasm - sorry.

Would you want your buisness operation dictated by your employees?

This kinda sounds like the problem we are hiving with the media wanting the complaining soldiers to be running the show in Iraq.

Liberals can't stand leaders who lead.

38 posted on 07/21/2003 9:25:06 AM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (If everything you experienced, believed, lived was a lie, would you want to know the truth?)
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
I left off the /sarcasm - sorry.

I caught it.
Just like you caught the underlying theme in these posts. Unions are a leftist tool. Of course they will try and blame the GOP for the problems they've created. They don't want their members turning their gaze in their direction as the cause of their problems. They will incite them against Bush, or anybody but themselves.

41 posted on 07/21/2003 9:41:44 AM PDT by KDD
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To: Only1choice____Freedom
In the accounting "industry", technology has wiped out more jobs than outsourcing over the past 15 years. When I got back into accounting 15 years ago (man, that's hard to believe--seems like yesterday), I went to work for a small firm that had 3 partners, two staff accountants, and two clerical personnel. Less than six years later (when I was laid off), it was a one-partner and secretary/receptionist shop. One partner retired, and the other started her own practice, with her mother answering the phone.

No longer were manual accounting ledgers being used, or income tax returns being prepared manually. Most of the routine, tedious tasks were now automated through tax/accounting software and electonic spreadsheets.

My point in this is that to not just survive, but prosper, it's going to take a lot of work on the individual's part to be proficient in a variety of tasks. Nobody promised us that life would be easy, only life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It took me more than 15 years after I left the Army to find my 'dream job'. Along the way there were hirings, firings, lay-offs, crappy jobs, decent jobs, decent bosses, crappy bosses, plus a 600+ mile relocation.

Living in a right-to-work state (Texas), I know that my dream job could be terminated tomorrow, with no recourse. Guess what? The very next day I'd be at Accountemps taking whatever contract work they had at $20-25 an hour, and working nights at Bank of America sorting checks at $10 an hour. I'd do this until my CPA practice had grown to sustain me full-time.

My memories of my temp assignments are quite fond, actually. There was a great deal of variety, and they seemed to appreciate the work I did for them. I'll admit that there were no health or insurance benefits, but I knew that going in.

As for tax returns being outsourced to India, that's a marketing opportunity for me!

Sorry for the rant, this is just my take.

43 posted on 07/21/2003 9:52:24 AM PDT by Night Hides Not
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