From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 14:32:52 MDT
In a message dated 8/9/2003 3:10:18 PM Central Standard Time,
lcorbin@tsoft.com writes: The only way that will happen is if the lazy socialist Americans
fail to get off their butts and take work at whatever the market prices dictate.
Lee,
This is partially a case of outsourcing by top management for a
cheaper source of labor but it is also a case of operations people not entering into
the competition for the jobs they have.
I have been in a company, the Electromotive Division of (General
Motors??) where the entire company was slowly moving to Canada. Way too many
workers were concerned only with early getting retirement when the company finally
selected them for unemployment. I saw labor utilization that was so wrong it
was insane with operating management doing nothing to improve the situation.
I felt like Alice in Wonderland.
Lee, you also said, "I urge everyone to carefully attend to Rafal's
*economic* arguments. So far in perusing this thread, he appears to be the only
one up on free-market economics, who understands thoroughly why protectionism
always hurts everyone in the long run."
I can't for the life of me understand why having one side of a
transaction practice freemarket economics while the other party to the transaction
practices protectionism to beggar the first party can be described as a
freemarket economy or beneficial to all concerned.
That goes double when the protectionist party has already been caught
selling their people as sweatshop labor.
Enlighten me, please.
Ron h.
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