What's this 3rd world biz? Didn't the bipolar system fall with the
Soviet Union?
I mean, shouldn't the 3rd world get a promotion to 2nd world?
Tracy Johnson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kent Wallace
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Carly makes the news and I agree
> with what she is > saying
>
> Until labor wages come in line in 3rd world countries,
> Americans cannot
> afford to do many jobs.
>
> A trained man will work for a 1$ or 2$ a day in many
> countries. In some
> break away republics the monthly wage is 60$ a month for a
> trained man.
> China has extremely low wages. The Mexicans are complaining
> about work
> going to China.
>
> If the dollar were to collapse to a lower value, and we could
> not afford
> to buy goods produced by cheap foreign labor. Would that mean that we
> would have to manufacture the products here in America? This
> would mean
> Americans would have jobs in manufacturing?
>
> Oh my gosh, California could become a manufacturing state with an
> unemployment rate less that 9.6%. Like it was in the 60's.
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:59 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Carly makes the news and I agree with what
> she is > saying
>
> 3rd World? What happened to the 2nd World?
>
> Tracy Johnson
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Scott
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:54 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Carly makes the news and I agree
> > with what she is > saying
> >
> > Henry Ford made it a point to make his Model-T auto so that his
> > employees could afford it. That is good business sense to me.
> > If you end
> > up sending all your manufacturing and jobs overseas, eventually,
> > Americans will not be able to afford the products produced
> by American
> > corporations... Oh, wait... I think we are there NOW! We do have to
> > compete in the world market, but we also have to be socially
> > responsible, or it will impact the bottom line.
> >
> > Best I can tell, we are MBAing our way into being a third
> > world country.
> >
> > But like you said, nothing is simple.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of James Hofmeister
> > Sent: 2009-02-11 02:37
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Carly makes the news and I
> agree with what
> > she is > saying
> >
> > This all brings up a good point of what our expectations are of a US
> > based
> > corporation is and more so does our form of government support those
> > expectations and ideals?
> >
> > - Is it an expedition that a US public corporation will achieve long
> > term
> > growth to support investors?
> >
> > - Is it an expectation that a US corporation will pay taxes
> to support
> > the
> > government and infrastructure that it operates under?
> >
> > - Is it an expectation that a US corporation will employ people to
> > support
> > the location (City, State and Country) that it operates in?
> >
> > - Is it an expectation that a US corporation will meet the
> above goals
> > and
> > at the same time compete in a world market?
> >
> > If these are the goals and ideals, then it seems relatively
> simple to
> > implement rules and, specifically financial incentives /
> disincentives
> > to
> > support the Ideals? ...but then again I am not a politician
> > and nothing
> > is
> > simple :)
> >
> > -j
> >
> >
> >
> > Their motives might be dubious but, the law of unanticipated
> > consequences can have positive as well as negative effects. When
> > people play with their own money then they usually adopt far more
> > prudent behaviour than if not. If they do not, then it is their
> > money and not the public's that is lost.
> >
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