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To: hmaly who wrote (212122)	11/20/2004 1:40:24 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583954

hmaly, You certainly put a lot of words in my mouth. re: Which is part of the reason the left lost the election. You can't tell the truth. The truth is that the number of jobs is growing, and you admit it. Now you say, yes the number of jobs is growing, but they are low paying jobs, which to most people, makes your original statement a lie. Bush is the first President since what, Hoover or something, to preside over a job loss. And yes the jobs being created now are low end: New research suggests that the Bush administration is right to dismiss critics who talk about this being a jobless economic recovery. It turns out that thousands of new jobs really are being created. They're just not going to Americans. The number of immigrants holding jobs has grown by more than 2 million during the past four years, according to a study of Census Bureau data by the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based group that favors more restrictive immigration policy. The center found 19.7 million immigrants with jobs, with about half the growth since 2000 due to employment of illegal workers. During the same period, the number of native-born workers decreased by 482,000 to 115.3 million. palmbeachpost.com re: Secondly you claim they are going overseas, when in fact, most of the jobs are lost to productivity gains, i e, one man, with a modicum of skill, can run several numeric lathes; lathes which automatically can do multiple operations on a piece, far quicker, and more accurately, than even the most skilled operator. Then why is capital investment so weak? All you have to do is look at the trade balance numbers and you can see where the jobs are going. re: The trouble is, when the lefties think of high paying jobs, they think of lawyers, but the general public thinks; who in hell wants more of them. And when the lefties talk of high paying manufacturing jobs, they are talking about only the good side of unions. Not the unions resultant featherbedding, and other anti, productivity gains practices, driving away manufacturing. And there is a fine line when talking about good environmental regulation, or anti business regulation, driving away manufacturing or are we talking about corporate greed. Are you just making this crap up? There is plenty of growth in the legal profession; no problem there. The unions are all but dead; still clinging by a thread to a few industries, but almost powerless. How many strikes do you hear about these days? Union membership has seem a dramatic decline in the last 20 years. Yet you want to blame them for the anemic economy!?! Wake up. re: The left wants to treat the rich as someone who is preying upon the environment, and the poor, and then hires lobbyists to avoid paying taxes; when in truth, the rich simply are looking for ways to maximise profits. If it makes sense to hire American, they will. That's the problem, it doesn't make sense. China is graduating more engineers than the US. Pay and benefits are a small percentage of what they are here, for skilled or unskilled positions. They work 12 hour days, 6 days a week. There are no regulatory problems. That was a very nice note but it's not based in reality. John