Posted on 09/08/2004 3:36:00 PM PDT by Destro
Dobbs can't be a Socialist because Free trade = Marxisim.
Actually he isnt Dobbs is a paleo-con much inline with Pat Buchanen.
No, no no!!! It's all GREED on the part of employers, don't you understand that??? Workers are NEVER greedy! ;^)
Apparently only in health care ---- even providing free health to foreign citizens who don't wish to build up their own health care systems, and education --- we still have to provide kids 12 years or more education with free lunch programs, and the military --- Americans go go off to do the dying that other people don't wish to do and the American taxpayers will somehow have to come up with the money to pay for all this but have no jobs that bring in money.
So Ok we should keep jobs that went to indians anyways. Fine, nonody will argue the fact that outsourcing sucks, but its a two way street. Protectionism at home will invaritably result in protectionism against us. Which means companies like Toyota and Honda wont build plants or other companies wont invest here because of rules setup to punish America for protectionism.
Bump for later.
Well --- at some point we're going to have to outsource taxes. Without manufacturing jobs, we will produce nothing to export --- Americans will have to import just about everything they buy. All the health care and education and social work jobs (service industry) are tax money users unlike manufacturing which are tax money producers. Who will pay the taxes that supports health care, education, welfare industry, and the military?
The Administration apparently isn't concerned about that.
As long as the transnational corporations can operate in a tax-free global environment, the rest of us, including our government institutions, can eat dirt.
FITZ! Do you read history? Is that not what happened to the Athenian Delian league? When Athen's allies were forced to pay tribute? Or to the Roman republic where slave labor made Romans unemployable creating the imperial welfare state that needed tribute to live?
We have shown that as a people we can not spend less on ourselves nor do we have the ability to raise revenue to the level of spending our politicans insist we need (and we confirm by their election).
In our lifetime we may be seeing the world pay America a "protection tax" collected by our Marines, whether they like it or not.
Doesnt Dobbs tout these same company's in his $$$ private newsletter?
I tuned him in on my XM radio last night, and it was the same schpiel, over and over.
Would he rather we be Germany with 32 hour work weeks, 20 percent unemployment?
And yet, if I had invested in "Dobb's Portfolio" of companies he hates for outsourcing, my 401(K) would be looking mighty fine and my dreams retirement fulfilled. Afterall, I'm not dumb enough to believe 70 million workers can be supported through the labor of 35 million.
Trade off? My generation.
Keep outsourcing.
you are making Dobbs point - what American can live on that wage?
Gee, Lou, maybe we'll all be investment class, local suppliers, and then creative suppliers.
Small minds have small visions, I guess.
yes, but who invents? lawyers? public school teachers?
engineers invent, and the field is collapsing, so which americans will be around to invent? none.
invention will come from the places where engineers are employed, and investments in new technolog are being made - and that's not in the US anymore.
And the jobs that were exported to the U.S. from abroad? Send em back. Get on it. Fart n start. ASAP? Ha
A top mechanic at a Mercedes dealer, makes $80K a year.
no one in the US is going to get a master's degree in engineering to make $40K/yr. no one.
all of my techie friends - are piling their kids into law schools.
Engineers aren't the only inventors - just the most richly rewarded ones.
Google John Osher.
An ex-plumber who created three companies.
so name some technological innovations made by lawyers, or real estate agents?
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