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To: epicure who wrote (5798)	11/26/2005 3:18:21 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542164

because quite frankly people here are not willing (at the moment) to work for the same wage as a factory worker in China or Bangladesh. They shouldn't have to work for that wage to keep the jobs here. There must be some considerably higher wage at which it makes sense for the company to keep jobs here and at which the worker could live given that prices will be lower, too. I've been keeping an eye out for studies analyzing what that wage might be but I haven't seen anything. Still looking. Over time, things will settle out and we'll end up with lower wages. If we knew what that wage was, we might be able to just go directly there and save a lot of the drawn-out heartache.

To: epicure who wrote (5798)	11/26/2005 3:56:37 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542164

We are losing jobs to India and China in a cascade because we cannot compete. For the most part, the jobs that are created in India and China are jobs that machines will do in a short period of time. These are not jobs that we want to compete in. Losing a job that you have had for most of your life that paid $20 an hour that some one in India and China would only be too happy to do for $1.00 a day is tough. I should be more understanding of the suffering that goes in to it. But, it is better to find out now and prepare the kids so that they wouldn't have to face the same situation later on, may be a silver linning. But, look at it this way. Those Chinese and Indians making that $1.00 a day now will soon be losing that job to some machine or computer. Better to face up to it now than later on.