-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Best wishes -- OT ...

We need to stop and think about why so many jobs are being exported to 
foreign countries.  One reason is the very high cost of labor here in the 
states.  That is brought about by the greed too many Americans.  At the same 
time we are cheapskates and demand the cheapest price for whatever we buy. 
At high union wages GM and Ford simply can not make a car at the prices many 
are willing to pay for them.   The obvious (but maybe not the right) answer 
is find lower priced labor.

Automakers aren't the only ones hurting... Dell, Acer and HP/Compaq are all 
importing to keep costs low.  So are dozens of other industrial and 
technology companies.

"Undocumented guest workers" typically fill those jobs that Americans do not 
want to do or will not do.  Pick cotton.  Pick fruit and vegetables. 
Collect your garbage.  Clean your sewers.  Yes, some do fill jobs that 
*could* be done by Americans.  But many of those jobs are ones that pay less 
than Americans want to earn and more than the illegals ever hoped to earn.

If more Americans would wait til they could save $$$ for marriage, babies, 
cars and houses like our parents and grandparents did we would be a better 
country.  Instead, our parents and grandparents are spoiling the kids 
rotten.  Giving the kids everything they didn't have as kids.  Many high 
schoolers drive more expensive cars than I do.  They graduate expecting 
everything to be given to them like it was before graduation.  When it isn't 
they blame Wal-Mart or McDonalds for not paying enough to give them the 
world.  What do they expect when they are half as productive as their 
parents are and have a work ethic that puts America to shame.

While I regret the financial pain and suffering that so many are going 
through these days I find it hard to sympathize because we have, for the 
most part, brought it on ourselves.

End of rant.  Further discussion to private email please.

Don


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Southerland" <larrysoutherland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:51 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Best wishes -- OT ...


> Thanks for your well-wishes.  I've been dealing with back problems for 
> about
> 17 years now (25% PPD).
>
> When you remove manufacturing jobs from the economy (e.g., exporting them 
> to
> China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.), service jobs (e.g., computer and customer
> service to India or the Philippines), the local economy is going to 
> "tank."
> I live in NC and this State has been devastated by the closing of the 
> local
> mills and plants (e.g., clothing, furniture and food processing) over the
> past two decades just as Michigan was devastated by the exporting of auto
> manufacturing jobs and Pennsylvania by the exportation of steel-working
> jobs.  There are so many industries which depend upon (are supported by)
> manufacturing jobs as well (e.g., medical, legal).  Meanwhile, low-skill,
> low-paying jobs are being taken by what have been euphemistically called
> "undocumented guest workers."  America's business interests have "stacked
> the deck" against the American worker....
>


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