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The Outsource of Confusion - When jobs go, we grow. [Pro-Outsourcing Article]
National Review ^
| 02/04/2004
| Bruce Bartlett
Posted on 02/04/2004 6:50:48 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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I hope some of the economic Fred Flintstones here will read this article and understand the points the author is making.
To: A. Pole
Flintstone ping
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:52:32 AM PST
by
Sender
(Code Yellow: continue shopping, please don't litter)
To: Sender; Willie Green
You forgot to ping willie. He's the ultimate fintstone.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:53:52 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: ClintonBeGone
It's also important to know that when countries outsource work to India or China, they are only doing so for very low-end operations that require little skill or training.That's where the article goes astray.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:54:26 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: vannrox; Smogger; sauropod
Economic Freedom Ping
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:56:08 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: dfwgator
That's where the article goes astray.
It's a minor point. It all depends on what you consider skilled. Just because it takes some 2000 classroom hours to be a hair dresser, doesn't make that a skilled profession.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:57:32 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: ClintonBeGone
Fine, fine. And the now unemployed, or underemployed, US taxpayer will pay fewer tax dollars. Which will fail to support the existing infrastructure of our government, along with the ability to service the outstanding debt.
India and China will have more revenue to support a larger government and a bigger military. The U.S. will fade in strength, power - and significance.
Happy?
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:57:35 AM PST
by
neutrino
(Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate us, so long as they fear us.)
To: ClintonBeGone
It sells a wireless mouse called Wanda for about $40 that is assembled in China. Of the $40, China gets only $3. The rest goes to suppliers, many based in America, which make components for the mouse, and to domestic retailers.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:58:56 AM PST
by
Taliesan
To: neutrino
It's not happened since the inception of this country. Don't be silly.
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posted on
02/04/2004 6:59:38 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: ClintonBeGone
Any jobs saved in the short-run by restrictions on outsourcing will come at the expense of better jobs in the future that will not be created. I see. Does it mean that outsourcing will generate better jobs in the future? How far in the future? What jobs? And where? How does he know the future?
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:00:04 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
To: A. Pole
How does he know the future?
He seems to know the future better than many on your side even know the present.
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:03:27 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: dfwgator
Excellent point. I wonder what the author considers "low end" - rockets, circuits, computers, programming?
To: dfwgator
That's where the article goes astray.That's gonna bring facts into the argument! Shame on you, facts have no place in discussions such as these!
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:08:08 AM PST
by
templar
To: ClintonBeGone
No, I am the ultimate Flintstone. I hate outsourcing!!!
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:08:09 AM PST
by
Sender
(Code Yellow: continue shopping, please don't litter)
To: ClintonBeGone
Just because it takes some 2000 classroom hours to be a hair dresser, doesn't make that a skilled profession.They don't outsource hair dressers, they outsource jobs like engineers. OTOH: Outsourced engineers could, of course, retrain as hair dressers and have a more secure future.
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:10:42 AM PST
by
templar
To: Sender
No, I am the ultimate Flintstone. I hate outsourcing!!!
Sorry to disagee with you, but there is no evidence that outsourcing does anything but help the macroeconomy of this country.
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:13:23 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: ClintonBeGone
The author is a moron.
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
The author is a moron.I agree.
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:21:02 AM PST
by
ClintonBeGone
(<a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/~clintonbegone/">Hero</font></a>)
To: ClintonBeGone
Every outsourced, unemployed programmer, customer service rep, and/or factory worker is a vote against whatever administration is in power.
So are their families and likely their friends and peers.
To: ClintonBeGone
How does he know the future?
He seems to know the future better than many on your side even know the present. I am awed. So how does he know the future so well?
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posted on
02/04/2004 7:22:26 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(pay no attention to the man behind the curtain , the hand of free market must be invisible)
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