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To: WRhine

And the financial incentives for American companies and inventors to automate much of this manual labor would skyrocket. It's just laughable that the most technically advanced country in the world would want millions upon millions of 3rd world peasants to undermine our strengths in innovation, not to mention our culture. It's all based on short-term greed.

I have started to wonder if there is some pill that elected politicians take that automatically makes them forget where they came from and the people that elect them. People criticize parties for being big business etc etc etc. But Greed is what alot of big businesses seem to represent. Look at how scandals have plagued the mutual fund industry. Why do companies move manufacturing facilities offshore ? I remember reading in my freshmen year reading a business law book and there was a chapter in their about responsibilities businesses have to local communites. The copyright date was 1998. I guess that is why those books are re-written ever 4 years because times/policies are always changing.


166 posted on 11/19/2004 12:27:29 PM PST by Independentamerican (Independent Junior at the University of MD)
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To: Independentamerican
I have started to wonder if there is some pill that elected politicians take that automatically makes them forget where they came from and the people that elect them. People criticize parties for being big business etc etc etc. But Greed is what alot of big businesses seem to represent. Look at how scandals have plagued the mutual fund industry. Why do companies move manufacturing facilities offshore ? I remember reading in my freshmen year reading a business law book and there was a chapter in their about responsibilities businesses have to local communites. The copyright date was 1998. I guess that is why those books are re-written ever 4 years because times/policies are always changing.

Excellent Post. As a long time stock market investor I've never seen so much corporate corruption in my life, and you can take it to the bank that this is the tip of the iceberg. Ethics have been totally forgotten by this generation and there will be a steep price to pay for this.

The Baby Boom generation is the Spoiled Rotten Generation.

171 posted on 11/19/2004 12:37:20 PM PST by WRhine (When America ceases to make manufactured goods, what do we trade with the rest of the world?)
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To: Independentamerican
Worth repeating.

It's just laughable that the most technically advanced country in the world would want millions upon millions of 3rd world peasants to undermine our strengths in innovation, not to mention our culture. It's all based on short-term greed.

182 posted on 11/19/2004 12:53:39 PM PST by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)
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