Reply #36: THERE IS NOT A BUMPERSTICKER SOLUTION TO THIS COMPLEX ISSUE

[happygoluckytoyou]

if we are entering a "global" economy, there are consequences... when clinton signed etc, my concern was that we should "somehow" go in 5% each year so the shock and aftershocks of this type of financial change could be absorbed into our economy. we benefit from certain illegal labor--- but in a global economy, where other countries have no child labor laws or minimum wage, you have to calculate how to deal with the fact that other "suppliers" will have that advantage over your own suppliers (who have to compete with such various constraints).

when manual labor was "outsourced".... (illegal labor in the USA).... the white collar workers did not complain
when physical skilled labor was "outsourced".... (building cars in cheap labor countries).... the white collar workers did not complain
when certain office jobs were "outsourced".... (help desk, phone services)..... the white collar workers did not complain
when the military was "outsourced".... (blackwater etc) the white collar workers did not complain
AMAZING THEN when the white collar jobs are being outsources they get so little sympathy from everyone else

=============================SO MY FAVORITE QUOTE FOR THIS WEEK=====================================
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out.
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