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To: Poohbah
actually people have discussed teh If you are good concept before but there are many very good programmers who can not find work becuase tehy do not have the right accidental skills set. If the job requirement says Cobol 390 version 2.11783 or C+++ and the programmer has worked with every version of COBOL 390 except v2.11783 and C, C++, and C+++ then there is a rejection for the slot even though that person might be the best person for the job.

Further it will be time to discuss competition when the outsourcing ceases to be sunsidized by the US givernemnt and its tax policies and by foreign governments. see the history of traffs and how they helped build the strong American economy. In the 19th century and early 20th it was slaveholders in general who were the biggest advicates for low tarriffs. Now it was I believe Milton Friedman who made the case for free trade with his criticisms of the Smoot Hawley tarriffs of the late 20's for supposedly exacerbating the world wide depression. The European Common market proved a large market of nations with roughly similar standards of living and civil iberties can help power expansion. i have yet to see a case made that the use of slave labor in a free market with nations that have a high standard of living does anything but create stresses upon that society that lead to war. If you can make that case please do.

126 posted on 06/05/2003 9:21:39 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: harpseal
actually people have discussed teh If you are good concept before but there are many very good programmers who can not find work becuase tehy do not have the right accidental skills set. If the job requirement says Cobol 390 version 2.11783 or C+++ and the programmer has worked with every version of COBOL 390 except v2.11783 and C, C++, and C+++ then there is a rejection for the slot even though that person might be the best person for the job.

If the job requires that experience, and the prospective candidate doesn't have that experience, then the candidate is NOT the best person for the job.

Further it will be time to discuss competition when the outsourcing ceases to be sunsidized by the US givernemnt and its tax policies and by foreign governments. see the history of traffs and how they helped build the strong American economy.

I would suggest reading Friedman's U.S. Cruisers: An Illustrated Design History and Hallahan's Misfire: The History of How America's Small Arms Have Failed Our Military for counterexamples of what happened to America's military-industrial base when protectionist policies were in place: America was rightly regarded as a militarily backward nation into the early 20th century. We wound up being forced to buy entire warships from Britain in 1898 because the American shipbuilding business had been shielded from competition in the civilian field, and in order to produce an acceptable rifle (the 1903 Springfield), we ended up committing massive patent infringment.

Only AFTER the Spanish-American War and the threat of Congress buying more ships from overseas did the major yards start investing in better production plant.

Now it was I believe Milton Friedman who made the case for free trade with his criticisms of the Smoot Hawley tarriffs of the late 20's for supposedly exacerbating the world wide depression.

Quite correct; with domestic demand declining, and foreign markets closed off by retaliatory tariffs, a recession and market correction turned into a full-fledged world-wide depression.

129 posted on 06/05/2003 9:39:46 AM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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