To second Stan's statement about jobs in America (or elsewhere, as a matter
of fact), I have to say that here, we'd love to have a 4.5 % jobless rate,
layoffs or not layoffs. The OFFICIAL jobless rate in this country is closer
to 9 %, down from 12 % about 2 years ago.

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-----Message d'origine-----
De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
part de Stan Sieler
Envoye : mercredi 8 aout 2001 01:31
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Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] OT: food for thought (regarding jobs in America)
was re: now seeking HP30...


Re:
> >  (Layoffs) Food for Thought
...
> >  can't find a good paying job in ... AMERICA...

The "food for thought" is a bit unbalanced.  It fails to mention, for
example,
what percentage of the various products (like the car made in Germany) are
actually made (or assembled) in America.  The story is rarely as simple as
"made in X" might imply.

> NEW YORK (Aug. 6) - U.S. job cut announcements jumped 65 percent to a
record
> level in July, led by telecommunications, computer, electronic and
industrial
> companies, a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas,
Inc.
> said Monday.

Keep in mind one of the lines in that article:
>   But the unemployment rate held steady at 4.5 percent.

So, the news isn't *entirely* bad :)



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