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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greg s who wrote (489823)	11/9/2003 12:39:46 PM
From: jackhach	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Richmond, Winston-Salem, Atlanta, Boca Raton, Huntsville ... these are just a sampling of concrete examples of high tech cities in the south that fly in the face of your misguided and uninformed mischaracterization of the southern states.<< Do you want me to pull out the data on how the folks in Atlanta get paid for similar/same work as for those in the North & Northeast Boston/New York & San Jose -- who demand/expect (and deserve more) more from their well-treasured, wealthy employers? The Blue States median income is 23% higher with 2.7 additional years average education then the Red States (via Year 2000 US census report). So the Blue States pay 23% more (on balance) in taxes to the FED TREASURY. What the CEOs are doing is having "things/technology" (on balance) designed/engineered in the North and then having that technology manufactured/serviced in the South for cheap. The folks in the South think the trend is great because to them getting paid $45 to $65,000 a year is just terrific wherein these employers (who have the money) would have to pay a Bostonian $65 to $85,000 for similar work. Hi-wage inventions in the North with low-wage package/distribution/service in the South is the new formula. And when/if they can get even more for little/nothing they move the jobs to Mexico, China etc... This would all be acceptable if the "extra" profit (via wage & benefits efficiency) went back into the infrastructure, community or what have you -- but it DON'T it goes to EXECS and BOARDS that are getting paid 150 to 200 times that of the rank & file employees. This is why EDUCATION needs to be UNIVERSAL. -JH

To: greg s who wrote (489823)	11/9/2003 1:03:24 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 769670

Extremely damning article about Bush being linked to short selling financier who trased an SV company. In the paper version there is a huge photo of Bush breaking ground on a ballpark with this "Dusty Rose" guy. Double whammy in stock fraud case Short sellers trash, then sue, Santa Clara tech firm sfgate.com Bush may not care about Silicon Valley money, but the fact is, now that both Dean and Kerry have dumped the finance rules, huge amts of money are going to flow to whoever the dem candidate is. This kind of anti-new business resentful baloney coming out of the Bush admin has cost thousands of jobs and ruined the optimistic outlook in this country that we had with Clinton.