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From: Eeyore on 20 May 2007 00:04 Jeffrey Turner wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > Jeffrey Turner wrote: > > > >>but with Sarkozy in there things will likely get worse. > > > > What have you in mind ? > > I'm under the impression that he's in the Thatcher mold, and will be > doing whatever harm he can get away with to social services. I didn't think he was that bad. Thatcher was absolutely shocking. Her legacy was quite destructive in parts, not least the near elimination of British manufacturing in favour of a 'service economy'. According to the pundits, Britain now has a post-industrial economy. I wonder where all the jobs are going to come from ? Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 May 2007 00:06 Jeffrey Turner wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > Jeffrey Turner wrote: > >>Eeyore wrote: > >>>Jeffrey Turner wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Losing your job to someone who'll work for half the wages *so* often > >>>>leads to prosperity. > >>> > >>>Why stop at half the wages. China and India can do it for far far less. > >> > >>It just as clearly applies to Chinese workers eventually losing their > >>jobs to people in Burma or Nigeria thanks to "free trade." > > > > Only if those places have the required infrastructure and right now they don't. > > There are education issues too. > > If China and India threaten to get too expensive - not likely in China > with the gov't setting the (low) wages Actually I'm not sure they do. > - the infrastructure will be built elsewhere. With what ? > Education can help, but that depends on the job. > > Education won't help the U.S., China has more honor students than the > U.S. has students. I was referring to the likes of Burma or Nigeria. They don't. Graham
From: Eeyore on 20 May 2007 00:08 Jeffrey Turner wrote: > Eeyore wrote: > > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: > > > >>Boeing competes for its military contract sales. > > > > Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. > > Boeing has congressmembers on payroll, so they'll get contracts. > It took a huge dust-up in 2002 (?) to keep the gov't from leasing > tanker planes from Boeing when it was *much* cheaper to buy them. Exactly the kind of thing that Airbus means. There's a closer watch on that form of intrinsic corruption in Europe. Graham
From: Joe the Aroma on 20 May 2007 00:20 "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:464FC9D2.4EE8B442(a)hotmail.com... > > > Jeffrey Turner wrote: > >> Eeyore wrote: >> > "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote: >> > >> >>Boeing competes for its military contract sales. >> > >> > Airbus describes them as 'pork barrel contracts'. >> >> Boeing has congressmembers on payroll, so they'll get contracts. >> It took a huge dust-up in 2002 (?) to keep the gov't from leasing >> tanker planes from Boeing when it was *much* cheaper to buy them. > > Exactly the kind of thing that Airbus means. There's a closer watch on > that form > of intrinsic corruption in Europe. > > Graham No, in Europe they just directly give them cash.
From: Fred G. Mackey on 20 May 2007 00:22
Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' ) wrote: > > Eeyore wrote: > >>Jeffrey Turner wrote: >> >> >>>Losing your job to someone who'll work for half the wages *so* often >>>leads to prosperity. >> >>Why stop at half the wages. China and India can do it for far far less. >> > > Don't the people of those countries need to live too? > > Sorry to sound crass, but that's their problem. Oh what? You want us to send them and make them eligible for social security? Actually, we already have put many foreign countries on welfare. Do you know what nation contributed the greatest amount of money to Afghanistan in 2001 was? Yep - that was the US. $125 million sent to the Taliban who were harboring Al Qaeda who was plotting to blow up the WTC. Maybe, just maybe, we should put American interests ahead of Al Qaeda's next time. |