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Originally posted by redarrow
what if an immigrant's business ran a local's business into the ground(and now the locals family is homeless)? what if an immigrant raises up the corporate ladder faster in one year than a local has in 10? y'see, its just like what happend in britain with all the jamaicans and indians comming over and doing all the shit. i think. if memory serves me correctly..
anyways, its this woman in the story. she took a job, hell, more than one. maybe a teenager needed one of those jobs to pay for a car? maybe the teen was pregnant and needed it to help feed her baby? y'see, the unemployment rate is going up! up and up!
why? immigrants and outsourcing. are there two greater evils on this earth?!?!
i know im gonna get a load of shit in return for this post....
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Lots of ifs and maybes in your "suppositions"
but let's talk turkey then. What if a HUGE congolmerate business ran a local business into the ground? Happens all the time with big large stores like WalMart, Target, BJs etc.
It's capitalism at its finest. If I can provide goods and services for a cheaper price and still make a profit, then that's what I will do. That's all about being capitalistic.
Outsourcing, it doesn't necessarily mean "outside the US,". I had worked for an outsourced IT department for many years and we were all Americans with a few immigrants, but we were outside the realm of the company. A contractor if you will. It still happens all the time.
MTV Networks outsourced my job to IBM. Did IBM send the jobs to India? No, the call center moved to Fishkill, NY.
Because I'm skilled at what I do, I was called back a year later. When IBM faltered and couldn't deliver, they called back most of the people that they laid off. Not everyone returned, but a few did.
It's not as easy to just gloss it over with generalizations and What ifs.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 08-05-2004 at 06:10 AM..
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