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Subject: Re: [OT] Ottawa plays oil card in NAFTA spat
Author: MB Software Solutions General Account
Posted: 2008/02/28 22:47:35
 
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Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Feb 28, 2008, at 4:47 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
> wrote:
>
>
>> I can applaud Ed on this one. <g> It's not a level playing field,
>> and
>> telling the US IT worker that he can't make above $20/hr because our
>> good brothers overseas work for that or less is horseshit.
>>
>
> I don't agree that we in the US are entitled to more money for the
> same work. All I believe is that companies that choose to move their
> production overseas should be subject to the same taxation and
> regulation as those who choose to keep production here. That's not the
> case now; and that's what I'm objecting to.
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>

As the ProFox archive will show, I've always said that the employers who
outsource should have to take 1/2 of their saved wages and put them back
into the workforce retraining efforts to help those they've
displaced....not welfare, but a retraining effort of some kind so that
that worker can again be productive in some other area to help the economy.



 
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