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burgermeister
All Computers Are Junk

join:2000-10-23
Utica, MI

reply to powerhog
Re: money

said by powerhog See Profile :

I think it has less to do with being able to find intelligent Americans and more to do with finding intelligent Americans who are willing to work for $1/day.
This is the correct answer.
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en102
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join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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I wonder if they plan to use some of the new presidents money that is earmarked as a tax deduction for 'new jobs' to do this.

I could see many companies (already) doing layoffs so that they can get tax deductions to hire them back.
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept

join:2004-06-26
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reply to burgermeister
said by burgermeister See Profile :

said by powerhog See Profile :

I think it has less to do with being able to find intelligent Americans and more to do with finding intelligent Americans who are willing to work for $1/day.
This is the correct answer.
This particular economic situation is serendipity for business due to middle class economic correction. I replied to another poster blaming teachers for the problem, and it reminded me of a phone call with a CC company phone rep not long ago trying to sell me services when I called to activate a new CC. This person was a teacher who could not find work in Missouri due to downsizing and consolidating school districts. She has a graduate degree in education, but was a new hire and therefore one of the first to go.

Long to short, she was glad to have a job; so many of her friends were not so fortunate. Grad students handling phones for $8 to $10 - the American dream, no?

I'd advise people to become at least acquainted with economic shock and flattening the middle class standard of living around the globe. Conspiracy theory? Perhaps. But I don't believe every unfortunate incident is an accident, either. Naomi Klein's book, "The Shock Doctrine," would be a very good start.
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fiberguy
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reply to en102
said by en102 See Profile :

I wonder if they plan to use some of the new presidents money that is earmarked as a tax deduction for 'new jobs' to do this.

I could see many companies (already) doing layoffs so that they can get tax deductions to hire them back.
So could I, however, that died a long time ago and was scrapped.

To be honest, I think they are moving jobs back due to the weakening dollar. Its becoming more expensive to buy outside this country than it is to use that $1 bill that's worth about $0.50 cents here.


Old_Grouch
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They are moving jobs back because public irritation with the "quality" of support they got from off-shore agents and a union demand to bring the work back during the last contract negotiation provided them a two-fer.
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fiberguy
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Do you really think that public irritation had ANYTHING to do with this...? ...at all?
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