Jeff
10/18/2011 3:45:00 PM
On Oct 18, 8:59 am, Fattuchus <fattuc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Oct 18, 9:48 am, moonpie <mr_rc_moon...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 06:17:29 -0700 (PDT), Fattuchus
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> > <fattuc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >On Oct 17, 10:14 am, moonpie <mr_rc_moon...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:32:05 -0700 (PDT), Fattuchus
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> > >> <fattuc...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >> >On Oct 16, 9:37 pm, The Nice Mean Man <hitherand...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > >> >> LOL....!! No I'm not! I'm perfectly happy. I have everything that I
> > >> >> ever wanted and things are going exactly as I had planned them! These
> > >> >> are tough times for sure, though they re not the first ones that I
> > >> >> have seen. But that's the way that the system works (and sometimes
> > >> >> doesn't work). You have to take the good with the bad!
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> > >> >> What you short-sighted fools should REALLY be worried about are the
> > >> >> loss of jobs to outsourcing. It's too late for that now, of course.
> > >> >> The damage it done! The factories are gone. The dies and machines are
> > >> >> all gone. The workers with specific skills to run them are dying off.
> > >> >> And the shelves are FULL of American NAMED products manufactured at
> > >> >> half the cost by child labor-subscribing countries like China! We in
> > >> >> the West are now societies of consumers! Not producers. And THAT
> > >> >> (coupled with the major underground invasion of the poor from places
> > >> >> like Mexico) is going to insure the complete and total downfall of the
> > >> >> greatest success story that this world has ever seen! It took two
> > >> >> hundred years worth of men risking it all to build their dreams to
> > >> >> make places like America. Places where every person hungry for success
> > >> >> the world over could only hope to go. We had the richest standard of
> > >> >> living for the average person in the history of the world. Even the
> > >> >> poor had two TV sets! (notice that I speak in the past-tense. Because
> > >> >> it is gonna happen, my friend. There are no two ways about it!)
> > >> >> But all of that is about to change! We now have to settle for the
> > >> >> same wages as the 3rd worlders IF we want to compete in the 'global
> > >> >> marketplace'!
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> > >> >Excellent post. Bravo. I would add that technology is a good part of
> > >> >the problem. Many jobs are replaced by machines.
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> > >> Definitely, I've seen it happen over and over... as computers become
> > >> more powerful, the individual employee becomes capable of doing as
> > >> much work as two or three people.-
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> > >IMO computers have replaced hundreds of thousands of jobs, maybe
> > >more. Look at banking, for example. Fifty years ago if I wanted to
> > >withdraw money from a bank, II would have to go to the bank, stand on
> > >line and deal with a teller. Now people can deal with an ATM machine
> > >or do certain transactions on line. Thousands upon thousands of
> > >teller jobs gone in a poof.
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> > >Same issue with certain jobs related to telephones. Years ago if I
> > >wanted techical support or to ask a question about a machine or
> > >electronic device, I'd make a phone call and the person helping me
> > >would be in the U.S. No more. In recent years I've called to get
> > >advice regarding a Hewlitt Packard device, for example, and the person
> > >answering the phone was in India or the Phillipines. All those
> > >American jobs are now overseas thanks to new telephone technology that
> > >makes it cheaper for the corporations.
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> > now THATS a job I really wished they had NOT outsourced. We had to
> > call ATT Uverse over the weekend and had an almost 2hour long service
> > call to somebody in India, with an accent so thick, I had to ask her
> > to slowly repeat almost every sentence. Really annoying.-
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> Once or twice I made calls to get help with America On Line. Imagine
> my frustration when the persons answering the phone had heavy accents
> and were in India. It irked me no end . . . .a company calls itself
> "AMERICA On Line" and the technical support is in India.
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> And, like you, the person answering the phone has a heavy accent and
> is hard to understand. Plus the digital phone connection is not the
> best. Oh, and I just love it when they say that their name is "John"
> or "Susan" or whatever, when I know darn well their real name is
> Rieothwitiehwowidisiaoaodialalaoophthwithwhtjkewititit.
A guy who once owned a sub shop told me to call him
Fred cause it was easier. It wasn't his real name. He was
originally from Afghanistan or some place like that. It didn't
bother me that he asked me to call him Fred.