[TheForge] Re: Taiwanese Machine Tools - and some Yak

[The Millers]

Andrew,
I completely agree. US industry and business think that shipping work 
over to "low cost" developing nations will make them more money.

In this region, as I would assume in many others, Mexican immigrants 
have become the labor pool for hard labor jobs in construction, 
agriculture and industry. They are being paid less, work harder and 
longer hours and the bosses are smiling. But this working class does 
not squander their money. The use it to help their families, provide 
education to their children and help other relatives come to America to 
live the good life. The census data projects that by 2020 the Hispanic 
population will become the majority. Do you think they will be willing 
to continue to live in substandard housing, work for substandard pay, 
and allow intolerance when they are the majority population.

My perspective is that the balloon of happiness of the great American 
middle class will burst. Health care, social security, pension plans, 
are all at risk NOW. What happens with this population shift and the 
mass retirement of the baby boomers.

I hope our kids are stronger than our parents were. The people who 
fought WWI, WWII and built this country into the best country in the 
world, despite the flaws. We need to take action to make sure 
politicians are accountable, taxes are fair, jobs are created for 
trained Americans, and corporate thieves like Ken Lay and his buddies 
spend hard time in prison as some one's "date".

Just venting........

Ray Miller
Cincinnati


On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:19:25 -0400, <debmiller@fuse.net> wrote:
>
> 	<Heart wrenching drech axed to save GI tracts.>
>
>> Our next generation will have to find jobs providing services to each 
>> other as we will have lost the ability to produce anything.
>
> 	This, I predict, shall fail miserably.  An economy the
> 	size of the USA's cannot, IMO, be based upon services.  If
> 	this nation attempts to go this route, I will assert with
> 	only marginal concern for my repuation, such as it may be,
> 	that the USA will become a fully fledged
> 	third world nation within 50 years, probably less.  I'm not
> 	joking a whit, either.  This nation will literally implode
> 	into utter poverty, leaving the remaining generations to
> 	look upon nations such as Bangladesh with burning envy.
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