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Hmmm. The Chinese don't seem to have any unemployment problems.
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Yeah, we're buying everything they can make.
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Strangely enough but I have heard that Mexico has unemployment problems related to China. Maybe we need another NAFTA/GATT to solve our problems(read:sarcasm).
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you really think foreign labor is to blame for joblessness on the home front? try automated shipping, inventory control, and the gentle phasing-out of middle management.
we don't have jobs because there are no job roles to fill, not because miguel is doing it for 5 cents an hour in mexico city.
try this example out: in israel, manufacturing firms became concerned w/ the security risks of using palestinian labor. they then automated their factories. so, lot's of palestinians out of work - no big deal. but then it became obvious that the inefficientcy of a tiered corporate heirarchy was the biggest time drain in the entire product lifecycle.
so they squashed the pyramid to bring the decision making closer to the shop floor. systematic logging of best practices and an instantaneous response from the new workers allowed for the need of many human decisions to be removed.
the result was many hundreds of thousands of skilled israelites ending up unemployed. thank god for a responsive unemployment system and representational taxation, huh? yeah, too bad. we don't get that here.
we get bloated corporations, skipping out on taxes ([url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2939966.stm[/url]), recording record profits, laying off 80% of their workforce, and waiting for us to die quietly.
f*ck getting another job. the very idea of a job is antiquated. load your rifles, take what you need, have a plan.
it's called survival of the fittest. stop waiting around for some h.r. fairy to throw you some scraps.