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[Brilliant]

Season of despair? How do they figure?

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[Steven W.]

I think this is the third time I've seen this posted this week on FR - must mean that you doom & gloomers are really near the point of desperation to come up with new material ROFLMAO.

[1stFreedom]

I'm going to accept a job that involves transferring some stuff over seas.

I fully intend to refuse to do so and will tell them to stick it up their ass when the time comes.

Then I'll walk out after telling them what the last two years has been like. If they are pissed that I refuse and quit, "FUCK YOU".

[Paul Ross]

Outsourcing is ....grudgingly accepted by consumers as the best way to satisfy their appetite for inexpensive clothing and electronics.

When did they ever get a real choice? Often the very best and latest of new designs were always made overseas FIRST! There was never a straight apples vs. apples comparison for shoppers, with a big unavoidable sticker for country of origin on the product. Walmart never gave them that choice...indeed they lied about it. Target didn't. K-Mart didn't. Even Sears didn't.

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What despair?

I see the economy growing by leaps and bounds, as evidenced by nearly every business statistic released in the past two months, especially this past Friday.

It seems to me that these Bush hating people who post these doom and gloom articles are attempting to stifle growth by using psychological subterfuge.

They did the same thing in 1992 when the economy, which Dimwits claimed was the worst in 50 years, was later proved to have been growing at 3-5 percent.

[RightOnline]

I have yet to see another key reason for such "job flight" in these threads..........the labor unions.

While it's true this article refers to white collar jobs, we all know that the labor unions were largely responsible for the ridiculous labor costs in this country. Key point: cost needs to be in line with productivity; we don't mind seeing workers being paid very well, but they'd damn well better produce. Labor contracts seem bent toward max pay for least amount of work.

Is it any wonder that manufacturing jobs began streaming out of this country as a result? Is it any surprise that, once that flood gate was opened, that the next level of workers (white collar) found their jobs equally in jeopardy?

Does this really surprise anyone?

There are never simple reasons for particular dynamics in macroeconomics..........but personally, I place the blame squarely on the American labor unions as the catalyst for all this overseas outsourcing and the accompanying misery.