Posted on 08/05/2003 1:23:15 PM PDT by ex-snook
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - U.S. job-cut announcements jumped in July to their highest level in three months, an outplacement firm said Tuesday, another sign that the longest job-market slump since World War II continues.
U.S. employers announced 85,117 job cuts in July, a 43 percent jump from 59,715 in June, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas, which publishes monthly tallies of job-cut announcements.
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1. You get to compete with cents an hour overseas employees for your job
2. You can't afford medical coverage, to take vacations or to save for your retirement on what you earn, and your employer doesn't contribute to any of these
3. Your neighborhood has been overrun by third world individuals who make about the same salary you do, only under the table
4. You can't afford to support your own family, but the folks mentioned in item 3 can afford to send billions collectively back to the old country, further decaying economic activity in your neighborhood
5. 50 to 75% of the people in your own home town don't speak English and want to forsake US holidays and celebrate those from the old country
6. Your president fails to notice your income status, but thinks people from other nations need billions of dollars worth of supports
7. While you don't have the funds for medical care, the foreign national gets it for free
8. While you can't afford to send your kid to college, the foreign national get free k-12 education for his children to the tune of $80 to $120 thousand dollars.
9. Your children get a small discount on their college tuition if they are instate, because you worked your whole life paying taxes to support these programs. The foreign national's children get these discounts because, well just because. It doesn't matter if most their parent's income was under the table thus avoiding taxes.
10. While your wife gets strip searched or x-rayed at the airport, revealing the most intimate of her personal anatomy, our borders remain wide open, people from terrorist states STILL entering our nation. Your bank and your state recognize foreign IDs which are not secure and may actually facilitate the monetary transactions of terrorists. While you have to provide secure ID at airports, the illegal alien can now obtain the same ID without secure documentation in a growing number of states in our nation.
11. While your family endures this treatment at our airports, merchandise crossing our borders passes thorugh 95 to 98% uninspected. It receives better treatment than it's human counterparts.
12. While you see fewer movies and go out to eat less often, the government redistributes what funds you to take home, giving it to people who do not pay income taxes at all.
13. If you are married, you pay more taxes than if you and your wife weren't. Fixing this just wouldn't be reasonable.
14. The crowning act? When your governor and the president celebrate the day your race makes up less than 50% of your state's populace.
Why not? sounds good to me. Exactly who has a problem with this idea, and why?
You got a point. We will see if they hold up to Freeper scans.
Why not? sounds good to me. Exactly who has a problem with this idea, and why?
Every free traitor on FR. They think they'll end up paying more to furnish their mansions. They, of course, ignore the huge social costs of the elimination of the middle-class that will send their taxes through the stratosphere.
14. The crowning act? When your governor and the president celebrate the day your race makes up less than 50% of your state's populace.
Bump..
What bothers me worse is that I am in the minority for even having these concerns to begin with.
The cult of personality marches on..
Shhhhhh Sure but you can't mention that word. The screw-Americans-job-exporters will holler PROTECTIONIST and then you are not supposed to say anything more. If you do you will be branded ignorant, stupid, isolationist, homophobe, xenophobe, communist, socialist, fascist, and so forth and so on.
LOL Sort of win one for the 'Wall Street Ripper'.
LOL. I accept your amendment.
It's all a sham. Dept. of Homeland security is a joke. Nothing more than an excuse to spend more money in a last ditch effort to stimulate the economy. Hundreds of tons of drugs cross the borders every year and anyone who thinks that moron Tom (put some duct tape on it) Ridge is going to protect them is nuts.
Richard W.
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