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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530536)	1/27/2004 12:37:51 PM
From: steve dietrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Here's an article from the IMF I posted on the Bush Basher thread, if you read down the linked article you will find how productivity is affected by offshoring. Which explains how we can have these great productivity gains and still be losing jobs. Message 19708866

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530536)	1/27/2004 12:49:40 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

would you rather have one of the dwarfs running our country?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (530536)	1/27/2004 1:12:40 PM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Lizzie, the offshore movement in labor really started in 1972. It has been going on for a long time. If in your mind this is tied to a particular administration...fine, that is your problem. I believe it is better to focus on reality to solve problems. What is the cause of the problem, the administration or the globalization that has been ongoing? The answer is obvious, now what rules do you want to put into place that will ake us less competitive, but in the short run will maintain labor levels until the company does and or is purchased by a foreign competitor? It is not all or nothing. Thank you for recognizing that small industry does not export the jobs...that is a clue for you... The absolute statements almost always tend to be exagerrations...pointless and lead to less credibilty. Look at Kenneth's problem on this thread as an example. So, tell us what you would do to create jobs that are not needed because we are just now coming out of the Clinton recession and are much more productive and labor is not needed to be added right now? What can Washington do to convince us to hire people we do not need? We are the labor market. Easy to be upset, since you credit yourself with being an architect of Dell's production...this should be quite simple for you. fine small industry might be growing, I agree it is... even in software, because these are companies I invest in. But we cannot lose approx 50K jobs from IBM alone in a 2 year period, multiplied by every other large multinational, and expect to maintain this economy. HP is also liquidating their US workforce. This trend has not peaked either.