"I'm
deeply
saddened"
Posted on 06/01/2004 8:51:58 AM PDT by zencat
U.S. manufacturing chugged to a full year of expansion in May, pushing factory hiring to its highest in 31 years, a survey released on Tuesday showed.
Move to where they are.
you all live in the states where the Connecticut industries all moved to, if you are tennesee or North Carolina or Va or Sc.
Move to where they are.
The outsourcing that is going on here is criminal
Please site for me the criminal code that is being violated.
Also, the vast majority of jobs that are being "outsourced" are actually going to markets where employee expenses are HIGHER than the US. Most notably the UK. Not all of them are going to China. Infact, over the last 10 years, China has lost 16 Million manufacturing jobs. Who is China outsourcing too? Or is automation, along with other technological advances reducing the need for human hands on a large scale?
It wasn't all that long ago (history wise) that streets were cleared of snow by men and shovels. Then someone invented the snow plow and put them out of work (they also sabotoged snow piles to damange and destroy plows in an attempt to keep their jobs). Zamboni put ice resurfacers out of work. Robots have replaced countless workers. The list of job killing technologies is virtually endless.
Also, as I have suggested several times on this thread and countless other threads, do as millions do every year... Go into business for your self!
But only a fraction of what is wasted on social and welfare spending.
Aahh, you stumbled upon one of the borders of the inherent firewall that will limit government's growth to reasonable limits.
Boy, its working great too! Please. Show me any evidence that this statement is even approaching the realm of reality.
I find this all kinda funny. I was run out of the steel industry in 1974. Uhhh, I did something else.
I wish you people would stop and think some here.
Slogans and mantras are not cures.
How can I move to where a job is if I am broke?
How can I move if I dont have a job to begin with? Only a FOOL does that!
And YES, I have aplied to jobs out of state, even in CO, WA, CA! Even Australia!
So, you dont know what it is like to look for work lately and to have people reject you for what I just explained, do you?
I am amazed at the cliches I hear here, it is like you never had to look for a job!
I moved with a whopping $8.50 an hour job.
Bankrupting the nation will indeed limit government's growth...
But I'm disinclined to agree that it is a "reasonable" strategy to pursue.
Large debt in principle is not good and should be avoided.
Our Gross National Debt has risen from 32.5% of GDP in 1981 to 62.4% of GDP in 2003.
It is projected to continue rising to almost 72% of GDP by 2009. (Source)
Alan Greenspan cannot continue holding interest rates down.
The bubble will burst when interest rates begin to rise.
Good news!
I am willing to wager that at a minimum, 99% of those posting on this thread have had to "look for a job." Myself included. Infact, a company I worked for closed their Raleigh office in preperation for being bought. A customer of mine heard the news and hired me (in a field I had no experience in). He was fired a few weeks after I started, and the new boss, shaking things up canned a few of us (including me). And to make things even better, I got very ill immediatly after getting canned. I was unable to work for several months (also had no insurance and ran up some bills). Then it took a couple months to gain employment because my medical problem prevented me from engaging in a full job search effort. Worked for the company that hired me for 3 years and got laid off. My 2nd time being laid off in 4 years (3rd lost job in 4 years).
Of all the people posting on this thread, I am talking from experience not all that different from yours. But you seem to think different.
The town I grew up in, Endicott NY is a shell of its former self. IBM (started in Endicott NY) has completely left town. Endicott Johnson shoes had done the same (which all 4 of my grandparents worked for). Endicott NY was the company town. EJ built a large number of the homes in the town and their employees lived in them. My grandmother still lives in her EJ home. Everyone worked for EJ. Then Watson started IBM and soon everyone in town worked for IBM. GE had a very large presence as well. And Lockheed had a plant in Owego (10 to 15 minutes away). Those 4 huge employers folded up shop and left.
I wonder what the unemployment rate has to get down to before some of these folks stop blaming someone else for their plight?
Are you gainfully employed?
Yes.
Then stop griping.
Are prices too high? Maybe there is a off-shore maker, what do you think?
I buy my mops at WalMart. Can't really afford better.
Stop supporting malfeasance.
So you push a mop?
I only support out and out felonies.
And when it's used up I dye it black and use it as a toupee. And sell such toupees on eBay. Big items with the Mexican market as hair replacements. I'm an entrepreneur.
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