Jerry Leslie wrote, in part:

"That's enough to wonder how stable the U.S. will be."


If tech workers can't get work, or have to take large pay cuts, and the
problem continues to grow:

Who is going to buy the high-dollar products? Third-worlders on third-world
salaries, or maybe stereotypical K-Mart customers? The economy could fall
into a deep recession.

If half the people on your block cannot afford rent, mortgage, or car
payments, what do you think is going to happen to people trying to forclose
or reposess? How far does it go before people decide the system has failed?
It has already gone further than, say, in the 1770's, but it is a much more
complicated world today, and the illusion is better maintained.

Anyone read the Mormon prophecies about the US falling into a state of
arnarchy, the US government becoming ineffectual, and foreign troops coming
in to restore order or administer martial law? Once, this sounded like so
much paranoid hooey; now, it doesn't seem so far down the pike.

Let my rhetoric go forth: "It is unpatriotic to send your work overseas.
Buy American, hire American".

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