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To: searchandrecovery
See post 69....corporations are - or should be - a caring, intergrated part of the fabric of everyday America....they used to be, maybe those days are gone, permanemtly.
102 posted on 03/08/2004 7:32:08 PM PST by citizen (Write-in Tom Tancredo President 2004!)
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To: citizen
They are LONG gone....compensation based on the stock mkt.prices changed all that 15 years ago.
103 posted on 03/08/2004 7:40:41 PM PST by international american (Tagline!!)
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To: citizen
corporations are - or should be - a caring, intergrated part of the fabric of everyday America

What page in the Marxist Handbook did that come from?

Most corporations exist for the purpose of returning a profit to their shareholders. If they do not, they rapidly fail & go out of business.

Have you ever taken a course in economics?

Protection of jobs today is a short-term solution which leads to a very serious long-term problem. Lack of competitiveness and decline of the nation relative to others.

The world will change around us whether we choose to deal with it or hide our collective heads in the sand. The laws of economics are as merciless as the laws of physics or any other science. The only way for the US to keep its position of leadership in the world is to be in the forefront of the coming changes--not to be fighting a rear guard action of protectionism and job preservation. Significant changes will always produce new and better opportunities for those who exploit them. This cycle has been repeated over & over during the lifetime of this country. The cycle times are getting shorter which leads to personal discomfort, but protectionism will always lead to long-term disaster.

How many software writers saw the handwriting on the wall years ago and didn't take personal responsibility to do something about it? How many software writers were so tied up in their work that they didn't even bother to look around and see where the industry was going?

When did it become the law that a job was lifetime employment at an ever-increasing salary? Five years ago software engineers were changing jobs every year and constantly demanding higher salaries. Their motto was "isn't free enterprise great". Now that the situation has changed they demand job protection.

As difficulty as it is for the people effected by outsourcing, it is and was a foreseeable trend. It is the responsibility of the individual to prepare for future possibilities.

124 posted on 03/08/2004 10:12:33 PM PST by CurlyDave
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