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To: Neeka who wrote (14375)	10/29/2003 3:25:42 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793624

Re: "slave wages", wages in real terms haven't improved in 30 years. the average is still under $9/hr., while the GDP has tripled. A lot of things have conspired to create that situation, we're in the Information Age where education is required. But the same was true in the 50's, when average wage increased dramatically, along with GDP, due to public policies of encouraging education. Instead we see a confluence of interests in Washington that benefit from depressed wages, increasing immigration, lower education, fewer opportunities. Those who gain most from centralized power also gain most from an ignorant populace, and the policies reflect that. If you get a chance take a read "Dependent on DC", by Twight. This trend increases the proportion of the economy that is expropriated into Washington, mostly by deception and extortion (witness Rumsfeld's recent admission of $2 Trillion "missing" at the Pentagon, almost $20,000 for every household). If you examine Grover Norquist's thought-leading statements they are a strategy to eliminate taxes on capital, increase taxes on workers, reduce education, and create an educated ruling elite in control of a gov't paid for by essentially a slave class. Of course, this is all under a Darwinian guise, while in fact the insiders create an information and power monopoly.

To: Neeka who wrote (14375)	10/29/2003 5:00:05 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793624

Oh Susie won't work weekends so she wouldn't consider working there. I spent the 70's as a Headhunter. One of my associates was an SC Grad who had never really left SC. He used to route his Fraternity's recent grads through the office and I would get stuck having to talk to them. When I would ask what they had done since graduation, it was an account, one after the other, of "Oh, I have been working on Dad's boat down at the Yacht Club in Newport Beach." What really got me was the number of recent grads from all the colleges that would show up, at age 22, with a degree in Sociology and a blank look on their faces. They had been run though College right out of High School by their parents with no work experience along the way, and were clueless as to what they wanted to do in life. It really brought home to me the utter waste of a College Educaton on a young person of average intelligence and drive who went straight through school without any real Life experience. It is great for those kids with high Intelligence and Drive who accomplish something at College, but a drawback for those who don't. They take a "Gut" Degree because they can party and coast through, and then have a tough time getting a good job. After a while, employers start looking upon them as failures, and won't hire them for anything. They would have been much better off to have stopped going to school for a couple of years and got some work experience. Then when they finished up, it would have been meaningful, and they would have come out of school ready to start a career.