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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (5797)	11/26/2005 3:05:40 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) of 542160

We are losing jobs to India and China in a cascade because we cannot compete. Companies are outsourcing en masse precisely because American workers (at a living wage) are not competitive. I think we've already screwed ourselves- the task going forward will be to unscrew. If we don't unscrew ourselves, all the optimism in the world isn't going to propel America forward. The more things are "open" the more the jobs will flood from the US, because quite frankly people here are not willing (at the moment) to work for the same wage as a factory worker in China or Bangladesh. What's pouring in to the US? Cheap imports, not jobs. Sometimes when you "open" a system, equilibrium can look really really bad, to the folks who were floating at a higher level (namely folks in the US). I'm not sure our society is going to peacefully assimilate the movement to equilibrium.

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