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To: Persephone who wrote (454783)	9/8/2003 7:53:26 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Karen, There is no need to turn this into a class issue. If we had a net outflow of jobs in this country when the textile industries left, there would have been plenty howling about it. But there was not, there has never been a net outflow of jobs in the US since Hoover. When the low wage jobs left there were other low wage jobs in their place, in retail at walmart and other places. It is always sad to see industries go but regeneration is basically a part of the system. Problem is in this case, we have no regeneration. If it were just my business software going and some other business like chips picking up the slack we would be fine- we don't have that. And, in losing these middle class jobs we are losing a boatload of previously accounted for taxes, another thing that didn't happen with the low wage exodus. The reason the deficit estimates went from 300 billion to 450 billion is due to a shortage in RECEIPTS actually, something the WH doesn't dwell on because to discuss this openly means their "jobs and growth" shenanigan isn't working. If the low wage jobs exodus caused the same level of pain to this nation that the current crisis does I am sure there would have been plenty of "squealing" as you say. I think offshoring needs to happen, I am not against it totally, I just want the tax rolls redistributed in some way.