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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (791339)	6/23/2014 5:30:09 PM
From: PKRBKR	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB joseffy Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584613

Or could it be that corporate chieftains are going to bring home some of the trillions of dollars they’ve stashed in offshore tax havens to invest in new products and other job-creating initiatives here in the USA? I know someone that works at Medtronic and they have ~$50B off shore and can't figure out how to make use of it. So what do they do? They buy Covidien for ~ that amount of money. Covidien is an Irish company and the new company will be as well. Problem solved and F-U USA tax man.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (791339)	6/23/2014 5:52:52 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584613

Workers have been devalued since the Reagan administration. That isn't going to change anytime soon.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (791339)	6/23/2014 6:10:16 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584613

Skills pay ... always have. You want income equality? Pay everyone according to the education or training it took to acquire the skills they use on the job, factor in the rigor of training not just seat time. So lets see... a fast food worker spends about 30 minutes in training at a fairly low level of rigor in the training course. So should they be paid the equivalency of the job value for the first thirty minutes of a college freshman intro course ... value = nothing. Ok the fast food worker is worth more because they actually were shown how to do something of value. It doesn't equate well to highly skilled professions like plumbers, electricians, or machinists who don't actually become valued until they've spent years in apprenticeships. Then there are highly skilled academic professions like Doctors, Lawyers, Business managers and such. Skills pay, or should. Entitlements are a cop out. America's Skilled Trades Dilemma: Shortages Loom As Most-In-Demand Group Of Workers Ages forbes.com