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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42599)	12/6/2003 4:30:56 PM
From: Condor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I understand your concern and moral indignation but until it is demonstrated by the collapse of WalMart (as opposed to its exponential escalation in market share globally let alone in the US) I must challenge your pronouncements of American solidarity as fact vs. wishful thinking. cheers C

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42599)	12/6/2003 6:27:19 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ann, Welcome to the world of free trade. You should n't cry about American workers' wage disparity. If your goal is to prevent exploitation by greedy executives, you should organize workers in others countries and counter exploitation globally. Boygotting for the sake of protecting American workers is futile. Where do you start and where do you end? More than 90% of the products in each and every retail, electronic, high tech and automobile parts are manufactured and/or assembled outside USA. What happens if other nations boygott American products? Self sufficiency is a fantasy in this connected world of ours. May be if American workers (including execs) are willing to go towards global parity in standard of living your hope will be fulfilled. American companies cannot expect to profit from the benefits of being headquartered on American soil and then turn around & stab the American worker in the back by outsourcing their jobs offshore. That concept will not compute with U.S. citizens. Lou Dobb's reports are awakening Main St., USA to the greedy strategies of those very same American companies. He & all of us are identifying those businesses in order to boycott their products & make outsourcing even more difficult than keeping jobs within the homeland. As children we learn that we must suffer the consequences of our actions--it's a simple lesson most children learn at their parents knee, but many American CEOs and CIOs were evidently orphaned.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42599)	12/6/2003 6:50:05 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<outsourcing their jobs offshore>> the salaries in OECD countries are artificially high and taxation is also high. But the 'cost US', the cost of being based within the jurisdiction of the US territory is extremely high. Too many 'rights for this' and 'rights for that'. They have to come down to the level of the foreign countries for jobs stop migrating overseas. Deflating salaries inside the US is not difficult. Government must deflate accordingly. This because foreign countries can pay less to their workers since the works don't have to support a gigantic government the size of the Washington. There's no country out there spending USD400billion in "defense" at tax payers' expense.