Posted on 04/08/2002 7:30:18 AM PDT by RCW2001
Don't get a Ph.D., take it from one who learned the hard way.
On the plus side, few domestic minorities and almost no homosexuals get Ph.D. degrees in technical fields -- therefore, it's one of the few areas where the powers-that-be just can't afford to discriminate against straight white males. When they need a Ph.D., they gotta take what they can get, even if he drives a pickup and wears cowboy boots to the interview!
LOL! We've got to be true to ourselves : )
However, I do know several PhDs (family members) in education and english making $35k/yr. I also know many doctors that don't know jack b/c they have never implemented anything in the "real world." Unfortunately, they can be labeled with that stigma of all theory, no work...... Just rambling : )
Hmmm. I must have missed the public referendum on this issue.
You people who see and "applaud" the business sense in this kind of crap are the biggest bunch loser/slaves/idiots on the planet.
The American people didn't choose to do away with jobs. The American people didn't choose to move to a "service" economy. This is neither the will of the people nor any invisible hand of free market economics.
This is a Fortune 500 bit of social engineering that began two or three generations ago to create the one world WTO vision. This is the result of the very visible hand of coordinated organized labor policies and labor politics and corporate giving that has shaped an economic climate that allows the current crop of CEOs to wave their hands and say, "Hey, we're just doing what's right for business..."
And you applaud.
How very happy you must be.
(Be aware, however, that there are a heck of a lot of Americans who'd applaud a lot louder for the first person to ram a work boot up your disconnected butt...)
Mark W.
But at least I can wear jeans and flannels to work every day. Chemistry is a messy business.
Wealth is created only by engaging in value-added activities. By the same token, Service sector activities do not create wealth, they merely transfer, redistribute and eventually dissipate wealth as consumption. Thus, as value-added activities move offshore and the U.S. labor force shifts to the Service Sector, wealth is dissipated, not created. And the U.S. standard of living declines as a result.WEALTH: The net ownership of material possessions and productive resources. In other words, the difference between physical and financial assets that you own and the liabilities that you owe. Wealth includes all of the tangible consumer stuff that you possess, like cars, houses, clothes, jewelry, etc.; any financial assets, like stocks, bonds, bank accounts, that you lay claim to; and your ownership of resources, including labor, capital, and natural resources. Of course, you must deduct any debts you owe.
VALUE ADDED: The increase in the value of a good at each stage of the production process. The value that's being increased is specifically the ability of a good to satisfy wants and needs either directly as a consumption good or indirectly as a capital good. A good that provides greater satisfaction has greater value. In essence, the whole purpose of production is to transform raw materials and natural resources that have relatively little value into goods and services that have greater value.
SERVICE: An activity that provides direct satisfaction of wants and needs without the production of a tangible product or good. Examples include information, entertainment, and education. This term good should be contrasted with the term good, which involves the satisfaction of wants and needs with tangible items. You're likely to see the plural combination of these two into a single phrase, "goods and services," to indicate the wide assortment of economic production from the economy's scarce resources.
Ease up on Billbears - I think we all support American industry.
I guess the many trips these people will make to the unemployment office will give new meaning to the term "501 Blues".
I have a feeling that even by taking their manufacturing OUT of this country, they will STILL have very little business. They could GIVE AWAY their gun-grabbin' pro-gay jeans and NO ONE in THIS family will wear 'em!!! (it's a matter of principle)
Glad my boycott worked.
That's right. They didn't choose, because it wasn't their place to!! It was the place of the business and their stockholders. What is it with you people? Do you think these companies owe the American public(whatever that is!!) or any other nation some sort of payment for placing their businesses there? They stayed quite a long time and I imagine if you look at the bottom line, longer than they should have to make money
I'm not for lost jobs in the respective states and counties and coming from one of the textile capitals for many years here in the South I do feel for these people. But the costs required to pay someone 30 or 40 bucks an hour(or more!!) to do the same job that can be done better at half the cost do add up over time. These companies are not in it for their health. They're in it to make money. You cry and moan everytime a company moves, expecting the government to do something about it. News flash for you. Perhaps if the government did less the jobs wouldn't go away. Labor laws to 'protect the worker'(sounds kind of like 'it's for the children' to me) need to laxed. Perhaps if the companies didn't have to match FICA or pay Social Security on each and every worker, they would have more capital to reinvestment and build better factories and spend more money on training to make the workers more efficient
You want a capitalistic system on one hand and I imagine I'd see you at the front of the line cheering for free enterprise, but on the other hand you're up on the stomp for what has to be the most socialistic ideals this country has ever seen. You can NOT have it both ways!!
BUMP for needing to be repeated (repeatedly)
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