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U.S. pink slips jump 71 percent
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| 6 May 2003
| Al Swanson
Posted on 05/06/2003 3:21:19 PM PDT by sourcery
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:21:19 PM PDT
by
sourcery
To: sourcery
I wonder if this thread will get pulled? All is well....
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:22:54 PM PDT
by
bluetoad
To: sourcery
Wow
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:23:46 PM PDT
by
riri
To: sourcery
I hope to make money marketing bumper stickers with the slogan:
"I'm unemployed and I vote!"
To: sourcery
"The sharp increase in job cuts last month should serve as a warning that it is premature to conclude that the quick end to the war in Iraq will bring a quick turnaround in the economy and job market,"...Perhaps a quick end to NAFTA and GATT might bring about that quick turnaround.
I'm sure the Free Traders will have other explanations, though.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:29:37 PM PDT
by
templar
To: sourcery
We still need to bring in 2 million foreigners to fill american jobs thru the H1-B and L-1 visa programs. No one is considering or even giving a thought to either cutting back or suspending the hiring of foreigners to take american jobs. If americans were "really" out of work and wanted jobs, then bush would suspend the H1-B visa programs immediately.
We still need to immigrate 57,000 more legals each week to fill jobs, and another 57,000 illegals have to sneak in to fill the other jobs that americans will not take.
To: sourcery
Forty-five percent of companies surveyed expected to trim their workforces.This is a bit troubling; it is hard to believe that 45% of all companies are overstaffed. There are, of course, incredible pressures especially on publicly traded companies to cut costs. It is possible to cut too drastically and, when demand grows, the capacity to fill that that demand does not exist. Not to mention the fact that higher unemployment close to the election will almost certainly favor the Democrats.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:35:46 PM PDT
by
Friend of thunder
(No sane person wants war, but oppressors want oppression.)
To: Gary Boldwater
I hope to make money marketing bumper stickers...Quality high quantity printing is really cheap from Japan and China. Even considering freight. Not quite as affordable, but still very low priced, Canada has some good printers and turnaround and delivery can be had in just a few weeks. With the Canadian sources, you can do everything, design, graphics, proofs, seperations, payment, ... everything ... over the internet. No tarrifs, taxes, import laws, etc. to hassle with.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:36:05 PM PDT
by
templar
To: templar
Is the irony in your post intentional?
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:38:11 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(The Oracle on Mount Doom)
To: sourcery
U.S. pink slips jump 71 percent
Democrats gleeful (though outwardly "deeply saddened").
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:38:12 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Admit it. Amendment XIX is very much to blame.)
To: waterstraat
We still need to bring in 2 million foreigners to fill american jobs thru the H1-B and L-1 visa programs.Try not to think of them as foreigners. Think of them as imported products, like a pair of jeans or a television set.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:38:53 PM PDT
by
templar
To: sourcery
Both of my daughters lost their jobs in the past two years.
They both have MBA's and worked hard for 15 years and then got laid off. Both are working again at 1/2 their former salaries.
There is a lot of anger out there,not so much that jobs are being lost,that happens,but that good jobs are being shipped overseas.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:38:57 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: sourcery
bump .. labor has a chance to make some significant gains ..... corporations are screwing up in the long term for good short term gains.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:41:40 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
To: Mears
but that good jobs are being shipped overseasMy husband is an accountant (corporate). When the computer jobs starting leaving, I said "Phew, glad we aren't computers".
When I heard of other industries being hit (architecture, etc.) I said "Phew, ..."
Now, we are hearing financial jobs being sent to India (American Express or Deloitte & Touche). My husband says "Do they even have an understanding of GAAP accounting?
I guess it will be our turn next. Maybe we can come up with the $250,000 for a Subway franchise.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:47:32 PM PDT
by
riri
To: Centurion2000
Why is it always the corporation's fault? This reminds me of the socialists who believe it is the job of everyone else to serve them. If you guys are so brilliant, why don't you make your own little mini-nation and not allow imports into it. Better yet, don't buy anything from outside your immediate family, or even better, don't buy anything from anyone else, just make everything yourself; your clothes, electronic goods, medical supplies and treatment etc.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:48:18 PM PDT
by
Dat
To: Centurion2000
It's called 'eating the seed corn'. They're firing en masse the same workers whose spending power could bring them out of the doldrums and sending the work and the money to India. How many of their customers are in India?
To: riri
Now, we are hearing financial jobs being sent to India (American Express or Deloitte & Touche). My husband says "Do they even have an understanding of GAAP accounting?Why should they? American accountants demonstrated during the Clinton years that they sure as hell didn't understand GAAP...
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:49:56 PM PDT
by
Poohbah
(Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
To: sourcery
Is the irony in your post intentional?I wish it was. I really, really wish it was.
A few months ago I designed and ordered some new business cards (not a real big purchase, but a representative one). It required four color printing and a glossy overcoat finish to get what I wanted. The best quote I could get locally was in the neighborhood of $160.00/thou and about a month for delivery. I hit the internet looking for a better deal ( actually, I was as interested in faster delivery as in price) and ended up ordering two thousand for about $85.00 delivered (for the whole 2 thousand). I did absolutley everything right over the internet. Just sent the design directly to the printer from my computer , paid via credit card, and had the two thousand absolutely beautiful cards in about 10 days via FedEx. It wasn't till I was throwing the box out and was taking the packing slip out for my records that I noticed they had come from Canada.
I have a brother in law in the printing business (doesn't print cards or small quantities). You wouldn't believe how many American printers sub out jobs, or part of them, to other countries now days.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:52:52 PM PDT
by
templar
To: Friend of thunder
This is a bit troubling; it is hard to believe that 45% of all companies are overstaffed.You have to understand that with declining business volume (or declining local production), a company that was fully staffed last year is overstaffed this year with the same number of employees. IOW, if you shift production overseas, you are overstaffed at home, even if your sales are increasing, if you don't get rid of some people.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:59:00 PM PDT
by
templar
To: waterstraat
"57,000 illegals have to sneak in to fill the other jobs that americans will not take."
Americans will gladly take those jobs if government doesn't feed and house them to sit on their butts. About the time they have to sleep in the gutter and have nothing to eat they will welcome those jobs.
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posted on
05/06/2003 3:59:21 PM PDT
by
dalereed
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