[TheForge] Re: OT: several questions and thoughts

[Demon Buddha]

dann wrote:
> 
> Anyone else remember the GoM  conference in Hastings Mn  where the adult 
> daughter of a guild  blacksmith was shopping for items  &  ideas to have 
> reproduced  in China.
> 
> Saw on the news a week ago.    A new Chinese car company intends to 
> market spartan $10 K cars .  Their news media promo car in Chicago ,  
> looked like a real car too.
> 
>  5 years ago the president of that Chinese  company was  just launching  
> a startup company:   making small repair parts.   Union or no Union, 
> Robotics or not, competing with the Chinese wage scale is  eating up 
> European and North American  manufacturing   jobs.  Toward that trend, 
> we will have only the medical profession , and  government jobs that 
> aren't  "out sourced".
> 
> I don't have a daughter working as a flight attendant... so  if we 
> follow the mentality.. if it is not my job, and  I can save money on my 
> next flight ..  why not hire Chinese flight attendants for a dollar an 
> hour.  <grins>.

	Not until my gf leaves United. :)

	Oh, get this... she got her pension information.  As of today, her 
pension payments will be $13/month.