OT:Favor needed

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Confusious (J. P. Radley) say:
> Mark Luljak propounded (on Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:40:14PM -0500):
> | I wonder how much of that support is actually -routed- overseas, and how
> | many are immigrants working domestically.  Personally, I'd like to see a
> | www.stopoutsourcingnow.org take the topic straight to the government via
> | petitions, requesting stiff penalties and disincentives for companies that
> | do outsource abroad.  It's killing our economy--and not just in IT.
> 
> We've already outsourced the manufacture of socks and bras, TVs and
> cell phones, and we still have the largest economy in the world.  So
> why not outsource other things, too?

We used to make things ourselves, as an industrialised nation.  We also
used to be far ahead of the curve.

Then they discovered it was cheaper to get it done overseas.  It started
with shoes, shower curtains, things like that.  Then, as you cite, we've
got all the electronics and such, and then there's the automotive arena.

Which point basically takes us to what Bill Vermillion has been telling me
for years--we're now mostly a service-oriented economy.

But if you start outsourcing -service- in a service economy, what the hell
do you have left--and how do you pay the bills, both individually and
nationally?

THAT'S why.

mark->
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