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To: American Spirit who wrote (980)	2/8/2004 10:05:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

AMerican spitir, How little economics you really know. Look at Japan, they had a broken economy for years propped up by export sales. High wages and prices at home, all papered over by a protected market. The the rest of Asia did the Japanese quality circle thang, and next thing you knew Japan was in trouble.....why? crooked politicians and bad banks and bad lending policuies and low rates. Same thing happens to the USA, so business go broke, all those union shops and those IT guys getting $100,000 a year lost their jobs. Well, boo hoo, cry on someone else's shoulder. They killed their own jobs. There are lots of new jobs out there that pay a reasonable wage and allow their products to be priced at a reasonable price. I have little sympathy for an IT guy getting $100,000 just to know a few trainable tasks in IT. Those jobs are a lot like Autowrkers jobs, low low skill, just a local monopoly makes them costly. Enter remote management and Sahib(who grew up on linuex) and he can manage a server very well from the Punjab over a DSL line. Same thing happened to autoworkers over the past 30 years. The autoworkers have lost 75% of their jobs to automation and offshore sales of Hondas and Ponys etc. And still their wages and pension go up with strikes. Soon there will be zero cars made in the USA if those fools do not wake up. The only way for this to chamge is for the US$ to fall and all of a sudden all those cars and things cost more and we can make them here again...maybe, if we get the UAW under control. Bill