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To: capt. norm
capt. norm said: "I wonder how long it will take them to out-source the jobs to India."

Don't you mean Japan?

No...wait...that was a generation ago.

Just as there is no way that Japan could manage to swallow up all the jobs in the US, so too there is no way that the US can deny jobs to China and India.

China and India suffer from long-standing cultural limitations which have caused them to struggle in competing with the industrial might of the US.

But there is no inherent reason that China and India cannot overcome those limitations. As they do, jobs will appear there, allowing productive people to do what productive people do ... produce.

If you adopt the attitude that success for the Chinese means failure for you, then I think you are going to make some bad decisions.

How are you harmed if a neighbor down the street, struggling to make ends meet working at McD sixty hours a week, decides to go back to school to study engineering? Will that cost you your job? Or will all the economic boats rise with the rising tide?

Will you not be able to succeed in this world if a middle-class consisting of a billion Chinese and Indians decide to adopt a middle-class lifestyle? If you can succeed in such a scenario, then how do you expect them to make the transition to such a situation, if not by importing jobs and productivity as their economic attractiveness permits?

11 posted on 06/29/2007 3:48:59 PM PDT by William Tell (RKBA for California (rkba.members.sonic.net) - Volunteer by contacting Dave at rkba@sonic.net)
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To: William Tell
capt. norm said: "I wonder how long it will take them to out-source the jobs to India."

Don't you mean Japan?

No...wait...that was a generation ago.

Ya' nailed me there because I've been out of that business (but not the hobby) for quite a length of time.

I wrote my last commercial application in 1998 and it is till in use today, but in a short time, it may as well have been written in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

15 posted on 06/29/2007 4:04:31 PM PDT by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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