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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (68878)	3/5/2004 12:00:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bob, I'm really disappointed with your attitude. <g> What is going on is a race to the bottom for wages worldwide. You say, "the American workforce must stay flexible and educated." That is pollyannish to the extreme. In the UK, Tony Blair is much more honest about the brutalization of post-industrial economies. He intends to de-subsidize post-secondary education for British youth precisely because economies like the UK and the U.S. will no longer produce living wage jobs for the next generation. Our fate, unless we change course from the zombie logic of wage destruction that multinational corporations are forcing on unwilling labor forces and communities, is to be become a new banana republic. With fat cat oligarchs like George Bush creaming all the benefits of society's ability to create wealth for an ever smaller concentration of greedheads and a burgeoning underclass who will have no real prospects of decent employment in their lifetimes. It is a vision comparable to Dante's Hell for the great bulk of us, and walled off prison of Paradise for the grasping few. I don't want any part of the world you seem to envision. It sounds like a living Hell to me.