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Delta
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Registered: Apr 2003
Local time: 02:30 AM
Location: New Orleans, La.
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lodgebo said this in post #14 :
The only reason that companies outsource is because it is cheaper to do it. You can all have the domestic workforce making products but would you be willing to pay the extra for it? People want cheap products and a homegrown workforce but you can't have both it's either or, right now the ones that want it cheap have spoken.
The only reason that firms got boycotted in Europe was down to call centers being moved to India ( guess why they went there) and people had trouble with the accents.
It is not just America in fact the country/region that invests the most FDI is Hong Kong, Japan, Korea,Germany then the US with UK France etc coming in later.
and it is not just China and India that is seeing this outsourcing/FDI Korea, Vietnam, Thailand and Eastern European countries are all seeing this massive influx of money the governments love it because it supplies jobs, training, infrastructure etc. If it's any consolation it shifts every few decades in the 60 and 70s S. Africa and L. America saw this outsourcing and in the 1990s - 200o it was the US that was the main recipient. |
!5,000 AMERICANS WERE LAID OFF AT HEWLETT pACKARD
oUR aIR LINES ARE GOING BANQRUPT, bANKS ARE FOLDING
tHE FOREIGN SYNDROME IS TAKING OVER OUR oIL.
wE ARE NOT GOING TO SIT AROUND HERE AND WAIT FOR A CYCLE TO CHANGE lOVE, We were built on Independence we will fight for our independece if it comes to that.
Listen up darlin, you live in Scotland so what happens here effects you little.
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07-23-2005 02:22 AM
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nikiTa
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Registered: Jun 2004
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I pretty much have to make a huge decision every week whether to go to Walmart and buy crap cheaper, or the local grocers and pay a little more.
The essentials we really need may be a little cheeper at Walmart, but if I don't have an income, because my company just did a lay off because of a merger with a foreign company....who the frick cares because I cannot afford jack shiiit at that point anyway?
So, when I was rollling in the dough, and even when I wasn't I still chose to shop at Whole Foods or Wild Oats because of the health food regimen.
I paid literally 2 dollars more on practically everything, but I knew I wasn't eating crap that would give me a mustache and breast pains with all the hormones and such.
But if it does get to the point that I have to sell my house, move in with one of my friends, whatever....I will be making choices that will reflect my disgust with globalization.
Perhaps moving somewhere and living communally with my buddies, and growing our own food. Whatever it takes.
These companies and their stockholders may think they are doing a good thing for themselves....but when people start to wise up and realize that a market economy is just that....you can buy and sell with only those you choose to do so, they could lose more money than they have gained in closing American factories and opening them elsewhere.
And if you live communally and rurally like many of us can here.....barter becomes an issue. My skills for some food.
Because it's not looking good for the future and I don't mean to be an alarmist....but I am just looking at the trends and reading the books and experiencing this crap first hand.
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07-23-2005 10:43 PM
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