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To: Elroy who wrote (286315)	5/1/2006 9:07:33 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576876

re: Where we differ is that you are thinking horizontally and I'm thinking vertically. **** I see. Actually, no I don't. What do you mean by that? Did you read the rest of the post or are you just numb? re: No, the roadblock to Dubia laborers getting more money is all their compatriots back in their home country that want to come to Dubai and get the same wages as the current Dubai laborers. When supply of laborers is huge, there's little incentive to raise salaries. Maybe that's part of the difference between your country and my country. In the country I grew up in, companies making all time record profits would be embarrassed to not pay all their workers a living wage. re: I wonder how the Japanese and Korean auto companies are opening plants in the US while the Ford's and GM's are moving manufacturing south of the border? ************** 1. The Asian companies are not unionized in the US. 2. The Asian companies basically had to set up domestic plants or Congress would slap tariffs on imported autos in the same way that they did steel a few years back. 1. Most US companies are not unionized and 2. Bull shit, that was a failed Bush attempt that lasted a couple of months. re: Anyway, what exactly is the policy change that you defenders of the US middle class salary level are advocating? First is to get rid of the illegals. Second could be to impose a level playing field with regard to working conditions and environmental regulation... if not, impose equivalent tariffs. (BTW that might help YOUR people). Third, we've got to figure a way to smooth the US wage scale, back to the way it used to be. I frankly don't know how you do that... it's more a social issue than a political or business issue. But it needs to be done if America isn't going to fall into third world status that you seem to admire so much.