Imagine if you will, a street corner, with 4 businesses, one on each corner. Business A, B, C, and D all are in the business of selling widgets. Business A hires a management team to ensure maximum profit for the owners of business A. The owners of business A, like all owners of all businesses, want to make as much money as possible, with the least amount of work. That is the way businesses work. If you get X dollars from your business for Y hours one year, but the next year, you get X dollars for 2Y hours of work, well, you might think about hiring another management team.
The owners of business A have an agreement among themselves: they agree that they will be honest with each other, and share equally in any work to be done, anf in any profits to be had. However, they may compete against each other. For example, the business A may consist of an office building, where each owner has an office and performs services for customers who come into the building. Owner 1 may sell widget X, and owner 2 may also sell widget X.
However, business A has many great business advantages over businesses B, C and D. It has a better location, for example, than businesses B, C, and D. Also, the infrastructure is better and attracts more customers.
Now imagine what the owners of business A would think if the management team discovered that an owner of business B wanted to move into the building that is business A. The business B owner wanted that great location in order to sell more widgets of type X. But the owners of business A said, No Way, you will cause more competition for the two business owners of business A who already sell widgets of type X.
So, the management of business A gets together with one of the business owners of business A who sells widgets of type A, and who needs widgets of type X to produce widgets of type Z. He wants the cost of X widgets to be as low as possible, so his profit is as high as possible. If he could only get that business B guy who makes X widgets into the business A building, he makes more money.
But those smart business A owners know that their contract that binds them together protects their individual incomes. So they ORDER the management team to keep out that business B competitor.
But the management team is clever: they and the widget Z business A owners mount a long propaganda campaign demonzing those business A owners who are against letting the business A widget X owner into the business A building. They call the protestors "racists" and "xenophobes."
After a while, they are able to fragment the business A owners, and bring in the business B widget X owner. Now the business A widget Z owner is making lots of money. He pays off the business A management team. But the two business A widget X owners have lost income.
Then the management team colludes with other owners of the business A to bring in other widget makers from other businesses, etc.
I hope you see the moral in this story: stick together and win, or be divided and lose.
....considering that they appear to be major league corporate bootlickers. More than likely, this posting of anti-h1b sentiment (soon to be a Thought Crime, no doubt, as soon as Dubya gets his 2nd term), by a renegade./ editor will get hiim fired.
....so that we do not have to worry about it...but instead they are just facilitating the job losses in order to reap bribes, err....campaign contributions from plutocrats and CEO's etc. I say we try a few for treason (in a recognized court of law), and then, if found guilty, hang 'em by the neck on the Washington mall. What say ye?
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The article said 120 people were surveyed and asked whether they would allow their own face to be used for a transplant after they died. All 120 said they would not allow it.
WTF?! I think it is disgusting that people would not allow this to happen, or even that they would not allow their own faces to be used. What are they, superstitious? WHat idiots....
I would GLADLY allow my face to be used after my death, except for the fact that my entire head will be resting in a liquid-nitrogen filled dewar soon after my death.
Uh...no. The poster draws on the rather obvious propaganda posters of an earlier era in order to make a point that nowadays the media is being used by the RIAA et al in order to spread a new type of propaganda, a type of propaganda that aims to infect minds with the idea that file sharing is evil, or something like that.
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
You wrote: "Not that the percentages might be better, humans make mistakes too, but I'd hate to see the profession suffer. "
I guess you are not objectively aware of the situation regarding MDs in the western democracies, but they basically are in charge of controlling the supply of their own competiton. What a friggin' scam! Imagine if plumbers were able to restrict the number of incoming plumbers to the degree to which MDs already do. Well, I suppose it would take 2 weeks to see a plumber, just like it does to see a doctor or dentist.
National ID cards are a good idea if you are a working man or woman who is a citizen of the USA. THis is true because the USA is a rich country with a great infrastructure, a stable political history, a culture that is well suited to capital investment, all of which attract capital investment. Thus, there is a relatively good opportunity for the working citizen to sell his/her goods and services here, to sell his/her LABOR.
However, a national ID card is a bad idea for those who derive the major part of their livelihood from buying the goods and services offered by the working citizens of the USA. This group consists mainly of the investor class. This class is a definite minority of American citizens. National
ID cards are a good idea for the working majority and a bad idea for the investor class minority because with the fragmented system of identification that currently exists in the USA, the investor class (both the American citizen investor class and the investor class from other countries) are able to influence the politicians so as to be able to bring in large amounts of illegal alien cheap labor, thus dropping the cost of labor (in real terms). This is good for the investor class and bad for the working class American citizen.
Also, this means that with greater supply of labor, the investor class can drop the amount of fringe benefits, such as medical care, which is good for the investor class, and bad for the working class American citizen, because more of them will die of cancer, etc.
But dying of cancer is not NEARLY as important as the possibility that some clerk may sell that database info to direct mail marketers and we might all get more junk mail. I just love that muscular Slashdot logic.....
My evaluation: Linux is better documented, which is really the only advantage, unless you are doing systems progamming.
Windows NT is probably less buggy than Linux.
All versions of windows are more compatible with various PC hardware.
So for a *user*, as opposed to a hardcore geek/programmer, Windows is much easier to use, and a bit more dependable (NT, not Win 95, Win 98, Win ME).
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You musta been on a different boat than me (old fast attack)--all the nukes, even we twidgets, worked our asses off, mostly cleaning the AMS, NI cabinets, etc etc etc etc....
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Ah, the timeless need of the young male to feel a part of some society, some culture, some group, where they are above some and below others. And of course, you need to be able to make those below you know their place, right?
That is one reason why I got off the boat as quickly as possible--the smothering embrace of The Crew, of the hierarchy.
That, and the wretched smell of the damn thing....the crew didn't smell too damn nice, either....
....we can do anything we want to do. This is OUR country. If we want to pass laws to HANG bureaucrats and politicians who sell us out, then we can DO SO. I have been voting since 1976. I bet I know a lot more about politics than you do.
Well, you seem full of righteous anger, and that is a good thing. But you did not offer a solution. Here is one: since this amounts to yet another sell out of the American public by its elected and appointed managers (politicians and bureaucrats), I suggest that the control loop (wherein the American people control its managers) is dysfunctional/incomplete.
The battle is not between us and Al Queda, or us and the corporations, but between us and our managers.
What we need is to elect politicians who have a serious grudge against govt and politicians, and hopefully these grudgeholders will institute punishments sever enough to deter this type of betrayal of the American people. Here is one possible deterrent: pass laws that allows the hanging politicians for this sort of bad behavior (selling out to corporations, etc).
If we start hanging politicians for this sort of behavior, I suggest we will get a lot less of it.
No, killing all the Indians is not really what we should do, but we should realize that they are our competition for labor, and we should take steps to destabilze their country so that jobs and capital will stay. We can do this by promoting war in that part of the world. Bush is doing this right now.
In order to graduate with a BA in English, I wrote a paper on Poe, and my thesis was that Poe used a variety of reptitive sounds in order to build mood and suspense, and in a few cases, to link his stories to his cosmogny/afterlife beliefs.
An example of what I am talking about can be gound in the Tell Tale Heart. The sound of the beating heart that exists only in the mind of the protagonist is one of the repetitive sounds used by Poe. Of course this technique is widespread today, especially in the use of music in movies.
Also, Poe used a sound to illustrate his belief that the afterlife was sort of a reincarnation cycle in which the dead waited in the black void of space for long periods, thinking over their sins, etc., before being recalled to life, in which time, a repetitive sound could be heard by the dead. This sound was supposed to be the "heartbeat of the universe" or something like that.
CHaracters who were up to no good would hear echoes of this heartbeat of the universe, which may have been some sort of premonition/echo/remembrance of past life cycles on the part of the protagonists, reminding them that they would pay for their sins here by having to relive them while in limbo.
You wrote: >> How about we figure out a way to keep our standard of living high without taking out the rest of the world? >>
TANSTAAFL! It's cold world, kid; get used to it.
>> I mean its not as if the rest of the world will sit by idly while we destabilize them. They'll wage war for their very survival. >>
Do you see how businesses compete with one another in the marketplace? It's the same for countries, although CorpGovMedia does not propagate this particular meme. It is a competitive world, and not a nice one. But living well has it own rewards.
>> And they may win. They might not, but then again, why chance it? >>
If we lose, we lose our way of life. We lose our wages. We lose medical care. We lose our variety of foods. We lose years of life. Go see Russia. THat is where we are headed unless we take action.
>> You make it sound like we're lining up for mile long breadlines as happened during the Great Depression (33% unemployment). >>
It's happened before. What magic will we call upon to prevent it? Only our actions can prevent it. I have proposed such actions. Debunk if you, or propose real alternatives, along with proposes mechanism to enable such alternatives. But you have yet to do such. I am waiting.
The problem with the strategy I propose is that our elected leaders (e.g., Cheney, Bush, Daschle, et al.) do not represent the wage earners who are losing jobs to overseas competition. Instead, they represent investors. They is why they have facilitated the movement of capital and our jobs overseas.
It is this movement of capital that is at the bottom of the loss of white collar/blue collar jobs overseas. Yes, at first there is a net benefit for those wage earners in the developed countries who still have jobs and money--they get lower prices. But in essence that is a Ponzi scheme--the globalists are saying, "it's turtles all the way down". But in essence, we are feeding on our bodies. TANSTAAFL, etc.
But eventually the bottom is reached. And I think some of you are now getting a sense that there is a price to be paid for globalism. It aint turtles all the way down. This country is a business, and we are the owners, and any business that "encourages* competition is a business with a short future.
But will you wake up in time to do something about?
THe first thing we need to do is get rid of our elected leaders. TO a person, AFAIK, they work for monied interests who always benefit by the loss of our jobs to overseas 3rd worlders.
I voted yesterday, and every vote went to 3rd parties.
Mostly Green party--not that I care fo all their ideas. But at least they are not in the pockets of Big Money.
We need to publicly hang for treason BushCheneyDaschle and the other minions of Big Money (e.g., such CorpGovMedia lackeys as you might find writing columns in the Wall St Journal). Of course, such hangings should only occur after being found guilty of treason in a recognized court of law. Lawlessness does not promote an influx of capital.
This is how the people kept their leaders in check for thousands if years (heads will roll, etc). Maybe it's time we got back to fundamentals.
THe answer to the loss of our jobs to other countries is to use the power and money we still have in order to destabilize competing countries. We need to use our military and our money to create chaos and instability in those countries that compete for our labor. For example, we can destablize India in a number of ways. One way is by instigating war in that region: remember when it looked as if Pakistan and India might go to war? Remember how the Indian software consulting companies squealed about how things were really going to be OK?
Capital investment is the only way that these developing countries can compete with us. If instability and chaos reign in India and China, all the capital and all the jobs come back here.
But such overt tactics can be dangerous for us. We need to be more subtle, like for example, backing warlords in order to balkanize countries.
Or we can just go right for the throat with harsh anti-competitive actions, and make it illegal for any company who operates telecommunications here in the USA to be able to connect data communications links between the USA and any third world country, or those whose wages are so low that they pose a threat to our wages. Western Europe is OK--their wages do not pose a theat as far as outsourcing goes.
You say this is an outrageous proposition? Do you to eat?
I have been promoting this idea on Slashdot and other forums for years, but no one listens. A pity....
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Imagine if you will, a street corner, with 4 businesses, one on each corner. Business A, B, C, and D all are in the business of selling widgets. Business A hires a management team to ensure maximum profit for the owners of business A. The owners of business A, like all owners of all businesses, want to make as much money as possible, with the least amount of work. That is the way businesses work. If you get X dollars from your business for Y hours one year, but the next year, you get X dollars for 2Y hours of work, well, you might think about hiring another management team.
The owners of business A have an agreement among themselves: they agree that they will be honest with each other, and share equally in any work to be done, anf in any profits to be had. However, they may compete against each other. For example, the business A may consist of an office building, where each owner has an office and performs services for customers who come into the building. Owner 1 may sell widget X, and owner 2 may also sell widget X.
However, business A has many great business advantages over businesses B, C and D. It has a better location, for example, than businesses B, C, and D. Also, the infrastructure is better and attracts more customers.
Now imagine what the owners of business A would think if the management team discovered that an owner of business B wanted to move into the building that is business A. The business B owner wanted that great location in order to sell more widgets of type X. But the owners of business A said, No Way, you will cause more competition for the two business owners of business A who already sell widgets of type X.
So, the management of business A gets together with one of the business owners of business A who sells widgets of type A, and who needs widgets of type X to produce widgets of type Z. He wants the cost of X widgets to be as low as possible, so his profit is as high as possible. If he could only get that business B guy who makes X widgets into the business A building, he makes more money.
But those smart business A owners know that their contract that binds them together protects their individual incomes. So they ORDER the management team to keep out that business B competitor.
But the management team is clever: they and the widget Z business A owners mount a long propaganda campaign demonzing those business A owners who are against letting the business A widget X owner into the business A building. They call the protestors "racists" and "xenophobes."
After a while, they are able to fragment the business A owners, and bring in the business B widget X owner. Now the business A widget Z owner is making lots of money. He pays off the business A management team. But the two business A widget X owners have lost income.
Then the management team colludes with other owners of the business A to bring in other widget makers from other businesses, etc.
I hope you see the moral in this story: stick together and win, or be divided and lose.
....considering that they appear to be major league corporate bootlickers. More than likely, this posting of anti-h1b sentiment (soon to be a Thought Crime, no doubt, as soon as Dubya gets his 2nd term), by a renegade ./ editor will get hiim fired.
Good one! This thread is FILLED with self-aggrandizing crap....
....so that we do not have to worry about it...but instead they are just facilitating the job losses in order to reap bribes, err....campaign contributions from plutocrats and CEO's etc. I say we try a few for treason (in a recognized court of law), and then, if found guilty, hang 'em by the neck on the Washington mall. What say ye?
If they get more, we lose some. I am sorry, but I want to keep what little I have. Tough for them, good for us. Life is cold.....
it's not flamebait--it's funny!
The article said 120 people were surveyed and asked whether they would allow their own face to be used for a transplant after they died. All 120 said they would not allow it.
WTF?! I think it is disgusting that people would not allow this to happen, or even that they would not allow their own faces to be used. What are they, superstitious? WHat idiots....
I would GLADLY allow my face to be used after my death, except for the fact that my entire head will be resting in a liquid-nitrogen filled dewar soon after my death.
Uh...no. The poster draws on the rather obvious propaganda posters of an earlier era in order to make a point that nowadays the media is being used by the RIAA et al in order to spread a new type of propaganda, a type of propaganda that aims to infect minds with the idea that file sharing is evil, or something like that.
You would not have to be a lawyer to do that, would you?
And besides, I think that what you described is blackmail or extortion.
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more...
I apologize for this off-topic posting which was submitted to the Slashdot editors, but which was rejected earlier today.
I believe that this story is very in line with the usual Slashdot fare, except that this story deals with hi-tech being used in a politically incorrect fashion.
I also believe that a public debate on the issues and actions discussed in this article is vital to the health of this country, and so therefore I am posting this article here.
If you are an American citizen, of whatever race, who is concerned with the future of America, then I ask you to Mod Up this post so that other are more likely to read it.
Thank you.
this Wired News story tells the story of the hi-tech being used by a group of tech-savvy ranchers in Arizona is using military technology to monitor and apprehend illegal immigrants crossing the border from Mexico into the United States.
Members of the group have spiked their land with thousands of motion sensors. They also use infrared tracking devices, global positioning systems, night vision goggles, radar and other gear to survey movement near the border.
Go to the Wired News story for more...
God ol' Eric Klien. I wondered what happened to him after the Oceana failure. Hey, Eric, you still signed up for cryonics?
You wrote:
"Not that the percentages might be better, humans make mistakes too, but I'd hate to see the profession suffer. "
I guess you are not objectively aware of the situation regarding MDs in the western democracies, but they basically are in charge of controlling the supply of their own competiton. What a friggin' scam! Imagine if plumbers were able to restrict the number of incoming plumbers to the degree to which MDs already do. Well, I suppose it would take 2 weeks to see a plumber, just like it does to see a doctor or dentist.
National ID cards are a good idea if you are a working man or woman who is a citizen of the USA. THis is true because the USA is a rich country with a great infrastructure, a stable political history, a culture that is well suited to capital investment, all of which attract capital investment. Thus, there is a relatively good opportunity for the working citizen to sell his/her goods and services here, to sell his/her LABOR.
However, a national ID card is a bad idea for those who derive the major part of their livelihood from buying the goods and services offered by the working citizens of the USA. This group consists mainly of the investor class. This class is a definite minority of American citizens. National
ID cards are a good idea for the working majority and a bad idea for the investor class minority because with the fragmented system of identification that currently exists in the USA, the investor class (both the American citizen investor class and the investor class from other countries) are able to influence the politicians so as to be able to bring in large amounts of illegal alien cheap labor, thus dropping the cost of labor (in real terms). This is good for the investor class and bad for the working class American citizen.
Also, this means that with greater supply of labor, the investor class can drop the amount of fringe benefits, such as medical care, which is good for the investor class, and bad for the working class American citizen, because more of them will die of cancer, etc.
But dying of cancer is not NEARLY as important as the possibility that some clerk may sell that database info to direct mail marketers and we might all get more junk mail. I just love that muscular Slashdot logic.....
I have tried Linux (MDK 8.*)
My evaluation:
Linux is better documented, which is really the only advantage, unless you are doing systems progamming.
Windows NT is probably less buggy than Linux.
All versions of windows are more compatible with various PC hardware.
So for a *user*, as opposed to a hardcore geek/programmer, Windows is much easier to use, and a bit more dependable (NT, not Win 95, Win 98, Win ME).
You musta been on a different boat than me (old fast attack)--all the nukes, even we twidgets, worked our asses off, mostly cleaning the AMS, NI cabinets, etc etc etc etc....
Ah, the timeless need of the young male to feel a part of some society, some culture, some group, where they are above some and below others. And of course, you need to be able to make those below you know their place, right?
That is one reason why I got off the boat as quickly as possible--the smothering embrace of The Crew, of the hierarchy.
That, and the wretched smell of the damn thing....the crew didn't smell too damn nice, either....
....we can do anything we want to do. This is OUR country. If we want to pass laws to HANG bureaucrats and politicians who sell us out, then we can DO SO.
I have been voting since 1976. I bet I know a lot more about politics than you do.
...for this sort of nonsense. If we hang a few, we will have a lot less of this sort of betrayal.
Well, you seem full of righteous anger, and that is a good thing. But you did not offer a solution.
Here is one: since this amounts to yet another sell out of the American public by its elected and appointed managers (politicians and bureaucrats), I suggest that the control loop (wherein the American people control its managers) is dysfunctional/incomplete.
The battle is not between us and Al Queda, or us and the corporations, but between us and our managers.
What we need is to elect politicians who have a serious grudge against govt and politicians, and hopefully these grudgeholders will institute punishments sever enough to deter this type of betrayal of the American people. Here is one possible deterrent: pass laws that allows the hanging politicians for this sort of bad behavior (selling out to corporations, etc).
If we start hanging politicians for this sort of behavior, I suggest we will get a lot less of it.
No, killing all the Indians is not really what we should do, but we should realize that they are our competition for labor, and we should take steps to destabilze their country so that jobs and capital will stay. We can do this by promoting war in that part of the world. Bush is doing this right now.
In order to graduate with a BA in English, I wrote a paper on Poe, and my thesis was that Poe used a variety of reptitive sounds in order to build mood and suspense, and in a few cases, to link his stories to his cosmogny/afterlife beliefs.
An example of what I am talking about can be gound in the Tell Tale Heart. The sound of the beating heart that exists only in the mind of the protagonist is one of the repetitive sounds used by Poe. Of course this technique is widespread today, especially in the use of music in movies.
Also, Poe used a sound to illustrate his belief that the afterlife was sort of a reincarnation cycle in which the dead waited in the black void of space for long periods, thinking over their sins, etc., before being recalled to life, in which time, a repetitive sound could be heard by the dead. This sound was supposed to be the "heartbeat of the universe" or something like that.
CHaracters who were up to no good would hear echoes of this heartbeat of the universe, which may have been some sort of premonition/echo/remembrance of past life cycles on the part of the protagonists, reminding them that they would pay for their sins here by having to relive them while in limbo.
You wrote:
>>
How about we figure out a way to keep our standard of living high without taking out the rest of the world?
>>
TANSTAAFL! It's cold world, kid; get used to it.
>>
I mean its not as if the rest of the world will sit by idly while we destabilize them. They'll wage war for their very survival.
>>
Do you see how businesses compete with one another in the marketplace? It's the same for countries, although CorpGovMedia does not propagate this particular meme. It is a competitive world, and not a nice one. But living well has it own rewards.
>>
And they may win. They might not, but then again, why chance it?
>>
If we lose, we lose our way of life. We lose our wages. We lose medical care. We lose our variety of foods. We lose years of life. Go see Russia. THat is where we are headed unless we take action.
>>
You make it sound like we're lining up for mile long breadlines as happened during the Great Depression (33% unemployment).
>>
It's happened before. What magic will we call upon to prevent it? Only our actions can prevent it. I have proposed such actions. Debunk if you, or propose real alternatives, along with proposes mechanism to enable such alternatives. But you have yet to do such. I am waiting.
The problem with the strategy I propose is that our elected leaders (e.g., Cheney, Bush, Daschle, et al.) do not represent the wage earners who are losing jobs to overseas competition. Instead, they represent investors. They is why they have facilitated the movement of capital and our jobs overseas.
It is this movement of capital that is at the bottom of the loss of white collar/blue collar jobs overseas. Yes, at first there is a net benefit for those wage earners in the developed countries who still have jobs and money--they get lower prices. But in essence that is a Ponzi scheme--the globalists are saying, "it's turtles all the way down". But in essence, we are feeding on our bodies. TANSTAAFL, etc.
But eventually the bottom is reached. And I think some of you are now getting a sense that there is a price to be paid for globalism. It aint turtles all the way down. This country is a business, and we are the owners, and any business that "encourages* competition is a business with a short future.
But will you wake up in time to do something about?
THe first thing we need to do is get rid of our elected leaders. TO a person, AFAIK, they work for monied interests who always benefit by the loss of our jobs to overseas 3rd worlders.
I voted yesterday, and every vote went to 3rd parties.
Mostly Green party--not that I care fo all their ideas. But at least they are not in the pockets of Big Money.
We need to publicly hang for treason BushCheneyDaschle and the other minions of Big Money (e.g., such CorpGovMedia lackeys as you might find writing columns in the Wall St Journal). Of course, such hangings should only occur after being found guilty of treason in a recognized court of law. Lawlessness does not promote an influx of capital.
This is how the people kept their leaders in check for thousands if years (heads will roll, etc). Maybe it's time we got back to fundamentals.
THe answer to the loss of our jobs to other countries is to use the power and money we still have in order to destabilize competing countries. We need to use our military and our money to create chaos and instability in those countries that compete for our labor. For example, we can destablize India in a number of ways. One way is by instigating war in that region: remember when it looked as if Pakistan and India might go to war? Remember how the Indian software consulting companies squealed about how things were really going to be OK?
Capital investment is the only way that these developing countries can compete with us. If instability and chaos reign in India and China, all the capital and all the jobs come back here.
But such overt tactics can be dangerous for us. We need to be more subtle, like for example, backing warlords in order to balkanize countries.
Or we can just go right for the throat with harsh anti-competitive actions, and make it illegal for any company who operates telecommunications here in the USA to be able to connect data communications links between the USA and any third world country, or those whose wages are so low that they pose a threat to our wages. Western Europe is OK--their wages do not pose a theat as far as outsourcing goes.
You say this is an outrageous proposition? Do you to eat?
I have been promoting this idea on Slashdot and other forums for years, but no one listens. A pity....