From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 21:17:24 MDT
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Kevin Freels stated:
> <<In the future, people in this country are going to be faced with a
> choice. To become educated, or to starve. Hopefully, the majority of
> people choose the former. The argument that cheap labor overseas is
> going to kill our economy is just garbage. People can move into the
> country, or jobs can move out. It doesn;t matter. Eventually,
> economic expansion will improve the lives of everyone. >>
>
> The educated are the ones taking it up the ass, nowadays, not the
> blue collar folks. Or don't you consider developers, and network
> admins educated? These are the folks whose jobs have been and are
> being off-shored.
Ayup. Don't know how many programming positions I sent resumes for that
wound up being outsourced to Indian or Pakistani job shops. Computer
jobs can be done anywhere there is a computer online. While high tech
is going more international, blue collar manufacturing is getting more
nationalist. Manufacturing companies are learning that the grass isn't
always greener on the other side of the river, that has specifically to
do with differences between the Anglosphere and the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, I'm working as a mechanic and the biggest demand now is
apparently skilled machinists, which you can't export without exporting
your whole manufacturing base (they need the machinists where the
machines are).
I'm looking at starting a tool company and will most likely have my
tool designs manufactured here in the northeast, at least until one of
the big boys wants to buy the rights to the designs. If I get
manufacturing done overseas, it will be for overseas markets, in which
case I'll likely sell licenses rather than do the work myself. All I
can say is thank goodness for GATT. My first tool design will be a must
for anyone that works on brakes for trucks, buses, or railroad cars,
but won't fit in the consumer tool market. Since it's a tool for
professionals, it will have a lifetime warranty, so I need to know that
it is made to last and not materials or methods substitution occurs.
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Mike Lorrey
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