From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 02:56:47 MDT
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From: <Spudboy100@aol.com>
As Americans become unemployed
> or take burger flipper jobs, the tax base shrinks. Money for things like
> defense will also shrink, money for investment in new technology will
indeed
> shrivel.
### No, it's exactly the opposite. Money which would otherwise be spent on
overpaying some employees can be divided between cheaper but better foreign
workers, local consumers who will benefit from lower prices, and researchers
wherever they can be found. Research output will skyrocket.
If the money for the so-called "defense" shrinks, it's good. The US machine
for killing people is too big already.
As some Americans become unemployed, the prices of services, homes, goods,
will drop, allowing others, the working people, to benefit, and encouraging
more economic activity, finally allowing the unemployed back into the
economy. If they want to.
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This scenario may not happen if the political forces of the American middle
> class react to deprive the corporate goons, under whose guidence has led
to
> such wonderous developments as Enron hiding loses in fake companies, and
Xerox
> and Worldcom "overstating earnings" on a systematic basis.
### Yes, yes, I know, the evil bosses.
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>
> Consider that an America reduced to a third-world status, by moving nearly
> all industry and service off-shore, (despite rabid, empty promises of the
> creation of replacement jobs) is not something that most Americans, I
believe, will
> tolerate. Darwinian natural selection is a choice with humans, not a
destiny.
>
### Yeah, let's select against other humans - the brown people in
who-cares-where, let them eat ... who cares what. We won't tolerate them
working for a pittance, if they can starve even cheaper. We'll keep all
industry and service here, won't let the ragheads and chinks take it away,
right? And if they get feisty, we'll send the Marines.
Rafal
PS. I guess I shouldn't be so derisive and emotional. Sorry, I find
xenophobia and tribalism too revolting. Better I'll just shut up
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