Posted on 02/18/2004 5:12:57 AM PST by beaureguard
Jobs .. and the economy. Those seem to be the issues that are driving many, if not most, of those who are supporting the Kerry candidacy.
First of all ... I'm going to repeat this simply because it makes the whiners so unbelievably angry. Listen up. They're not your jobs! The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you! You have job skills and, presumably, a willingness to work. Your task in a free economy is to get out there and find some employer with a job who needs your skills ... and strike a deal.
If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, of if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you. Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing. The employer knows what he's looking for you. If you're not it .. it's your problem, not his.
Now ... you say you're going to vote for a Democrat this year because of jobs? You mean to tell me that you're going to vote against George Bush this year because you don't have a set of job skills that are in demand in our free marketplace? Yeah .. that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Tell me. Just what do you want the president to do? You information technology people out there .. just what are you demanding? Do you want companies to stop outsourcing IT jobs to India? OK ... tell me how to do that. These companies aren't shipping parts overseas and completed products back. All they do is ship information overseas by phone lines or the Internet. Then that information is modified and shipped back the same way. What do you want the government .. the president to do? Do you want some federal law that prohibits companies from transmitting information overseas by the Internet, having that information transformed or modified, and then shipped back? And tell me just how do you enforce that law? Does that law then apply to you also if you seek information from a company that is located overseas, thus depriving a domestic company of your business?
Ditto for manufacturing. I've already told you the story about the California company that makes computer mouses. (computer mice?) This company ships the components to China. The mouse is assembled in China and shipped back, then sold for around $40. Why? Because the assembly is cheaper in China than it would be in the US. So, you say you want the president to force this company to have that mouse assembled in the US? Fine .. then the price for the mouse goes up to about $70 a pop and sales drop. As the sales drop the jobs of the people in this country who manufacture the components for that mouse go away. Then the 100 marketing jobs this company supports in California also go away. You see, perhaps you can succeed in forcing this company to assemble these mouses in the US, but there just isn't any way you can force the American consumer to pay 80% more for the "made in America" version.
As Bruce Bartlett says in an article listed in my reading assignments, "No nation has ever gotten rich by forcing its citizens to pay more for domestic goods and services that could have been procured more cheaply abroad."
What we are seeing here is a demonstration of the "government owes me" mentality of far too many Americans. Every time you arrive at a speed bump in your life's journey you start screaming to the government for help. Sure, the speed bump is going to slow you down a bit ... but just keep moving forward and things inevitably pick up speed again. Americans are becoming helpless whiners. The more helpless you are, and the more you whine, the more likely it is you're going to vote for a Democrat. Democrats specialize in stroking the malcontent.
Congratulations, whiners. At a time when America if fighting World War IV, the war against Islamic terrorism ... you're going to vote for a candidate who wants to treat terrorism as a freaking law enforcement problem because you've made some pitiful jobs choices. Pitiful.
Go ahead Angel, & I'll hum Dr.John's torch song, "Candy" to set the *mood*. ;^)
"If you promise me you won’t lump me into the same category with Candy, I’ll fill in your blank for you, Dan. (If you insist on pairing me with her, then delete the next forty-three paragraphs, unread – and go to sleep tonight knowing that you’ve dealt my fragile ego a potentially deadly blow :)."
No deal, I know a wedge when I see it & I *do* know how to handle power even if others don't. {g}
"This President is attempting to appease moreso than he is attempting to stand on principle. I do not believe he is unaware...Our President simply believes that the socialist train is moving too fast for him to step in front of."
Yea you may be right about that train, but, I hope this POTUS understands the train's going to wreck whether he jumps in front or not.
Whatever he does, he's going to be blamed & that's something else I hope he understands, because, he has had many opportunities to do what was right for the nation and for reason or reasons unknown to us, he's done the exact opposite.
Not a "low blow," not a "smear," just the unvarnished facts where only the worst of the worst will try to justify the behavior.
"So he’s attempting to slow it down by feeding it less fuel than his predecessors."
Ahhhhh, I *see*.
A governmental Atkins diet kinda thing.
Got it.
"What he doesn’t seem to comprehend is that this particular train has its eye on a point of no return. And, when it reaches that destination, it won’t need fuel anymore. It will become self-sustaining. And there will be nothing any of us can do to stop it."
That, Angel, is *not* a train you've described.
That, is a monster.
"There is going to come a time when so many of our freedoms have been removed that we begin to wonder what the word choice once meant; when we are answerable to government for so many things over which we ourselves used to have control; when it no longer pays to work hard because those who don’t work hard live just as well as those who do; when the term ‘American’ no longer has a definitive meaning because our borders are so open, our language and culture so bastardized, and our historical roots so deeply buried, that we no longer know who we are."
>?<
"It’s time to stop fueling the train."
Too late.
"BTW, here’s an ‘aside’ for you, to illustrate, in a small, specific way, the state of at least a portion of our urban society today...I substitute taught today (middle school physics and math) in a city school district. In one of the classes (a remedial type of math), I had to collect money from the students for a field trip they will be going on later this month. I placed the collected money in my desk drawer in a large manilla envelope. To make a long story short, when I went to tally the money half an hour later, the envelope was gone (in part, my fault for not locking the desk when I had to leave the room briefly during my free period)."
HA!!
An inner city school, eh?
Well.
*Learn* anything, teacher? {g}
"At the end of that class, I walked in and said, ‘I had an envelope containing almost three hundred dollars..."
Ummmmm, 3x what they paid you for the entire *day* will be my wager.
Be that as it may...
"...in my desk in your math classroom an hour ago. One of you already knows that. That envelope is now gone from the desk, and one of you has to have taken it. I have a pretty good idea who it is [even though I didn’t]. I am going to leave this room now, and I will be back in five minutes. If the envelope is not on this desk in the front of this room at the end of those five minutes, I will be calling the police and pressing charges. And stealing three hundred dollars is a felony.’ I left the room, walked down the hall, and returned five minutes later. The envelope was on the desk. So I dismissed the class for lunch."
Ducked a bullet, kid.
I told you I'd pay to see you go over to those tin plated weinies running a couple of the rogue pacific rim nations & give 'em a what for, & I meant it.
You're *exactly* what's needed in our spineless State Dept.
"I spoke to the principal about the matter after school, and asked whether he believes the matter should be pressed further in order to discover who took the money (everyone in the class obviously knows, since they all saw him/her place the envelope on the desk) and punish him/her, not legally, but through some sort of punitive school action. He said that he would just let the matter go now, since the money was returned."
Good principle, with the wisdom of Solomon.
I'd have told you the same thing, BTW.
"I can’t help but wonder how many more things this child has stolen, and will steal, that won’t be returned."
MYOB & teach math & physics, not, ethics.
The theif gave it up & *that* is the most "honesty" -- in the sense you & I understand honesty -- that one will [probably] ever be capable of showing & *you* witnessed it; so, be grateful for that. :o)
"I don’t agree with the principal, and, were I a fulltime teacher in that school, instead of a lowly substitute, I would press the matter further with the administration."
Yea well you wouldn't *be* a "full time teacher" there very long if you did. Fact.
*Got* to follow orders from the one with more brass & in your heart of hearts you know that, too; which, is why -- I dare say -- you're *not* a "full time" teacher.
"It’s running time..."
Fine.
But be careful.
Watch for dogs...2 *&* 4-legged ones.
And today?
...finish your lunch, OK? {g}
Very nice work...MUD
That is pretty much the feudal system in a nutshell.
Odd how these things come full circle.
This is really a technical issue. Its not about opinions nearly as much as one thinks.
Boortz is just a partisan hack. Rush Limbaugh is a great commentator, but I would not ask him to do any electrical engineering for me on the side.
Likewise Boortz should keep his mouth shut.
They're not your jobs! The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you!
The same right to exist applies to any and all companies. They have no right to exist. They have no right to sell to OUR market. (note: Its not "their" market)
If they piss off the electorate, the electorate can vote any way they want and the companies will just have to live with it. They will have no one to blame but themselves.
Secondly, business succeeds when there is a symbiotic relationship between the masses and the business.
This idiot is making it a them or us argument when its not. If he wants it that way, so be it. We will see who wins. Companies can't vote. This smart ass commentary leads me to believe he isn't nearly as politically astute as he thinks he is, especially in this political environment.
For being a political expert Boortz sure is stupid.
I never thought about it that way, but you've got a point.
When people realize that we have a ruling class in this country (if ever) maybe we will have a real chioce when it comes to our elected officals.I am so thankfull that the second ammendment is around for the real reason is when the turds in Washington throw that one more yoke on the people and they say enough
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