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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (367531)	1/20/2008 1:58:15 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571766

they forget willy signed NAFTA

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (367531)	1/20/2008 2:01:32 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1571766

I have no idea. I'm pulling for Obama. I have some ideas of my own. Make executive compensation regulated by being a certain multiple of the compensation of the lowest paid employee for one, with no hidden perks. Include contractor's employees in the calculation.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (367531)	1/20/2008 6:50:49 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1571766

Right now, corporations get huge tax breaks for shipping manufacturing overseas. It's one of the most corrupt loopholes in the system and it costs lots of US jobs. Another thing killing US jobs is no universal health care. Every US car built costs the company $1500 in health care costs. Japan and Europe don't have that problem.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (367531)	1/21/2008 2:02:38 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571766

How will Hillary address the fact that foreign labor is so much cheaper? How would you bring jobs home? That's really not the jist of that article........esentially, the author is laying out how Bush and his economics has damaged the economic foundation of this country if not raped it. I refer back to a post made on this thread a while back and I am paraphrasing......"when they plunder the US Treasury, we will know that democracy no longer exists in this country". As for jobs, we have to get real logical about this issue asap. There are factory jobs where in most instances [there will always be exceptions] we will never be able to compete with a Vietnam or a China or an India. We need to identify those industries and start making plans to transition out of them asap. During that transition period, the workers who can be retrained will be so that they can move into industries where they will have a viable future. At the same time, we have to identify industries where we are in the top three positions in terms of competition. And then we have to do everything we can to support their competitiveness and to make sure they grow and prosper. As I see it, this isn't a one shot deal but an ongoing one. The global economy is here to stay and as countries around the globe upgrade their positions on the food chain, we will have to upgrade and re invent ourselves as well or die. Its as simple as that.