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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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And thats a really good thing too... if that happened to any country it would be in shambles...
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Yep, but STEED thinks it's happening already to all of Europe. I disagree.
@ elite - Middle class jobs don't go overseas. Low-income low-skill jobs are what get outsourced. Why? Because labour is cheaper abroad. It is a fact of globalisation that Western workers can't undercut foreign workers, and thats not necessarily a bad thing. Western workers have a skill advantage, they are more highly-trained, and if they're not they should be.
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Yeah, and I see the "low-income low-skill" Americans increasing. That's the only people the current status-quo hurts. I see quite a few of these people every day. The American lower class has been getting lower quite a bit lately, the only beneficiaries that I've seen are the illegal/imported Mexicans from.
The sad thing is, many times daily I see Mexican immigrants ( many here legally due to their employers pulling strings) who can't speak any English whip out wads of $100 bills to buy whatever they want without hesitation. While I see people born here in the US scraping up coins... literally dollars worth.. to buy something that's less than $10. I certainly can't say they're rocket scientists, but I'm positive they could get a job in all the chicken processing plants/playground equipment manufacturers in one of the towns I work.
The Mexicans have more disposable income than I do and I'm single with no children!
Something is seriously wrong with this setup.