It's a fine American corporate tradition. When the American worker gets too uppity, ship in some foreign competition to put him in his place. It antedates the founding of the nation itself; blacks, indentured servants, the Chinese railroad workers, the tired, poor and huddled masses of Europe, they've all taken a turn.
Today, its Mexican farm labor and Central American peasants, Eastern Eurotrash, and Asian scientists and engineers because we're too kewl, dumb and lazy to take algebra in school any more. If you can't bring them in legally, bring them in wetback and then persecute them with border patrols and the threat of deportation so they'll keep quiet and not cause any trouble.
And as you point out, if you can't bring in the worker, outsource the job. The whole point is that we have more people than we need, more than we can afford to pay, they're just getting in the way. We don't need for people to work anyway, because the only jobs that really matter are management jobs, and there's only a diminishing number of them anyway....
The trouble is, who's gonna buy all these goods the Chinese and the Mexicans are making for us so cheaply anymore? We'll worry about that tomorrow.
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- Britain plans to decentralize health care
- "correlation"
- Not over there.
- ...so would it be a logical conclusion...
- I am keeping it in mind...
- And keep in mind...
- You have it backwards.
- We already subsidize food.
- It's not sticking with me, either.
- Isn't that how it is with anything?
- More news from the NHS
- That's not really a fair conclusion, Eri...
- Have they?
- Health insurers' profits have gone up.
- Not downward. Outward.
- Love in wartime
- The doctors will have to hire more staff.