Re: Wal-Mart Bashing...Was Re: Hi

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Times, they are a-changin'  Its funny how countries go through this 
process of development.  At first, just getting jobs is a big deal for a 
developing country, but as people get cars, savings, and personal 
assets, the countries discover they have a moral conscience.  I suppose 
in the Grand Scheme of Things, this is good,  The disruptions, while 
severe, are far less than the death & destruction of the Four Horsemen.
Our problem today is that we are facing the consequences of our own 
success in showing the World a new and better way.
Still, to me, the problem lies far beyond the movement of industry and 
manufacturing.  Are the results any different if a Detroit auto worker 
loses his job to robot or to a South Korean?  As many jobs are 
disappearing as are off shoring.


Kenneth H Werner wrote:
> There is no way for Americans to compete against India, China and others 
> because they are not socialistic countries.
> They have no Ponzi Scheme (Social System system) that cuts into take 
> home pay and a cost to the employer hiring them.
> They do not pay 26 weeks of vacation to people that lost their job 
> outside their fault and many that in reality lost a job at their own 
> fault, unemployment insurance.
> They expect people to be self sufficient, if India had a Katrina the 
> government would not get involved. The people caught by Union Carbide's 
> chemicals would had no help had it not been for Union Carbide sending 
> help following a chemical leak. People were surprised that help came 
> from America.
> People take medicine they trust and do not have an FDA to second guess 
> their trust.
> They do not pay farmers to grow a crop and pay farmers not to grow a 
> crop. Ted Turner gets $MUCH each year as a farmer and couldn't drive a 
> tractor.
> People go to school to get a life long advantage. They  do not suffer 
> from a "Free Public Education System" whose sole purpose is to 
> indoctrinate, brainwash students with thoughts the government want them 
> to think.
> They do not have a FTC whose purpose is to help people get ripped off.
> The list can go on for pages for why our socialism helps India and China.
>
> It is out choice.
>
> People love the low prices at Wal-Mart -- the shirts I buy at a low 
> price have to offshore made to be sold at the price I want to pay. 
>
> pnelson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > If our factories are shuttered, and the blue-collar folks are out of work, 
> > what need will there be for on-shore tech services? I fear that we are 
> > creating an entire generation of people who will never have a meaningful 
> > job in their life. We are approaching the time where the major line of 
> > business in areas that formerly provided manufacturing jobs is the 
> > gang-related drug trade. Look at the south side of Chicago, Newark, 
> > Philly, or the Bronx.
> > Shifting the economy from one that is manufacturing based to one that is 
> > services based is foolhardy.
> >  
>
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