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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:06 PM Original message |
Forget outsourcing.There is more 'tectonic shifts' headed our way. |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. If we won't fund education in order to compete with this |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:24 AM Response to Reply #1 |
19. It's not an education issue ... |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 02:48 AM Response to Reply #19 |
25. WWIII - US defeated w/o a single shot |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 02:33 PM Response to Reply #25 |
60. You are right on one point ... |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 10:40 AM Response to Reply #19 |
50. I respectfully disagree |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 02:27 PM Response to Reply #50 |
59. Competition is a red herring ... |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 06:55 PM Response to Reply #59 |
68. Of course we're competing... |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:21 PM Response to Reply #68 |
79. You don't get my point ... |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:29 PM Response to Reply #59 |
82. Money seeks the place it gets the best return on investment |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-30-04 09:48 AM Response to Reply #82 |
83. BETTER EDUCATED DOESN'T MATTER ... |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-30-04 07:30 PM Response to Reply #83 |
85. I don't know if you realize it |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:28 PM Response to Reply #19 |
77. It is an education issue. |
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daveskilt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. children nothing - try being a recent MBA grad today |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I know that Harvard B School has a campus at the Indian |
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Zookeeper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 03:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
27. And the corporations love highly skilled immigrants... |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 06:59 PM Response to Reply #2 |
69. Focus your anger! |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:08 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Well said, JCR |
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daveskilt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:40 PM Response to Reply #69 |
78. hey I'm on that team already |
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xray s (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
3. the white collar world will learn what the blue collar world already knows |
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susanna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I'll second that. |
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xray s (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I know its wrong to generalize but... |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:03 PM Original message |
Last week I was talking to a friend of mine in Michigan who is one |
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democratreformed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
40. Sam's Club (Wal-Mart) is having a big car sale this weekend. |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 10:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
48. I saw it happening in the late 70s. |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Lets not forget ... |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:37 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. No you may already be too late about biotech. |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
73. Again I say, campaign finance! |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
76. Why? |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:02 PM Response to Reply #3 |
70. Amen! |
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DemBones DemBones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. The way things are going, I am not too unhappy that |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Wealthy Right Wingers don't care. |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Brave New World indeed! |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:17 PM Response to Reply #8 |
74. It's ok, there's always the gun lobby! |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
5. I think India and China account for 1/3 of the world's population. |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:35 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. One of the things that we need to do and do it fast is downsize our |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:03 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Which contradicts PNAC, ya know? |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:13 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. We spend $400BB on defense....China spends about $20BB |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:25 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. If you think of all the assets our indusry, agriculture and ecnomic aid |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
23. OH yes they will ... |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:12 AM Response to Reply #15 |
31. In fact, our best hope may lie in Bush bankrupting our country |
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JCRobinhood (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:27 PM Response to Reply #31 |
75. I do believe you're right! |
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teryang (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:52 AM Response to Reply #15 |
34. Agree in spirit, but it's 500 billion for FY 2005... |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. YES WE CAN THROW UP A WALL!!!!!!! |
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juajen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 04:11 AM Response to Reply #5 |
28. Don't forget what Bill Clinton said at the DNC speech |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 11:57 AM Response to Reply #28 |
55. Like China's going to listen to our trade complaints |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. globalization has fostered this deliberately: |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
38. Please explain |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-30-04 10:01 AM Response to Reply #38 |
84. They force foreign debt ... |
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Gloria (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yup....read an article last week in a Japanese paper about how |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-28-04 11:41 PM Response to Original message |
17. After I posted this, I was reminded of a statement attributed to Carly |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. There are CEOs in India who would be willing to do her job at Hewlett |
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lanparty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. It will creep up the food chain ... |
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JohnOneillsMemory (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 03:24 AM Response to Reply #17 |
26. Labor, like troops, is fungible. Rumsfeld economics. |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 06:24 AM Response to Original message |
29. Why do you think that the growing Indian and Chinese Middle Classes |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:03 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Remember most US products are already Made in China anyway. |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:49 AM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I think you confound the US economy with its manufacturing sector n/t |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:13 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. What US products? |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:09 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. The US is the most technologically advanced country |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:16 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. The populations of India and China represent nearly 40% of the |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:29 AM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Sounds like a fantastic market potential to me |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:52 AM Response to Reply #37 |
43. Market potential for what? |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:03 AM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Like the economist John Maynard Keynes used to say, |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:58 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. Keynes was referring to economic crisis, not to international trade n/t |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 04:16 PM Response to Reply #44 |
62. I see that Stiglitz uses the quote in the same context as you |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 11:51 AM Response to Reply #43 |
54. For US products, of course |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:40 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. Oh, I get it. |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 04:06 PM Response to Reply #58 |
61. You seem to think that your standard of living depends on the poverty |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 06:32 PM Response to Reply #61 |
66. I think you are insulting to the people in China and India when you insist |
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democratreformed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:47 AM Response to Reply #35 |
42. What makes the US the most technologically advanced nation? |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:44 AM Response to Reply #42 |
45. Education is one key element |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 04:29 PM Response to Reply #45 |
63. Learning from India |
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democratreformed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:15 PM Response to Reply #63 |
80. That's a good quote. |
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democratreformed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 04:51 PM Response to Reply #45 |
64. I don't know about Singapore |
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allemand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 05:42 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. The Ivy League is still in a league of its own but I remember reading |
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democratreformed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:22 PM Response to Reply #65 |
81. Right now, I believe that our country's values are backwards. |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
56. The market will eventually work itself out |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 12:23 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Cheap labor, anti-SS, anti-inheritance tax. |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:40 AM Response to Reply #29 |
41. we have nothing to sell.. |
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ensemble (79 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 10:41 AM Response to Reply #29 |
51. Re: |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
39. can you say argentina? |
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rhite5 (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
46. This is an important discussion |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
49. a difficult, contrary opinion.... |
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CanIgonow (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 10:59 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. In my heart I know there is a lot of truth in what you say but I see the |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
53. Don't think there's much doubt that |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
67. Like Boosh Said, He's A Uniter |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-29-04 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
71. China Is The Dot-Com Bubble Of This Decade |
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