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

Tue Sep 23 23:07:03 2003

Seems to me big business is all about maximizing profit, and they have
absolutely no respect for anyone, least of all their employees.
Randy Mundt
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From: "The Millers" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Re: Taiwanese Machine Tools - and some Yak


> 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, <[email protected]> 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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