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To: AC Flyer who wrote (15488)	2/23/2002 12:44:47 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Precisely. The US redistribute wealth to the world via sending in dollars to import stuff. In Siemens -perhaps they stopped that already- new employees would ask at the job interview: "How many days of holidays I'm going to get?" There were strikes for 35-hour work week. Alcatel was running out of managers. The guys didn't want to get positions abroad or forgo their holidays. I got sick of this kind of thing: labor regulations made for industrial world being still used in a post-industrial service world economy. But reality has a way of biting back.

To: AC Flyer who wrote (15488)	2/23/2002 1:31:56 PM
From: portage	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

>>It's unethical to "Protect" the job of some lazy, greedy, overpaid slob when somebody will work for much less in some other country. Jobs do not belong to the person who works.<< Ah, you must mean the CEO's with hundreds of thousands of free stock options, domination of the BODs, trading on inside information and selling their stock back to the company (we find out much later), and plenty of money to grease the politicians' palms, and who are recipients of retention bonuses when they drive their companies into bankruptcy. I can think of a few. Or were you just talking about Wall Street analysts ?

To: AC Flyer who wrote (15488)	2/23/2002 2:02:16 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

It is completely astonishing that you and Maurice can be so blind to the community impacts that your high-handed decisions to throw away the manufacturing sector to the low bid, human rights challenged third world, and in the process create a situation in the OECD nations where the CEOs have to live in gated communities with private security forces to protect themselves from the populace. Truly, you display an astonishing lack of comprehension of the implications of your simplistic and destructive "free market" shibboleths. -Ray