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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:24:11 -0500, RL
<CHESSRL2002@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Your Special Friend wrote:
>> 
>> http://thekansan.com/stories/013004/vie_0130040039.shtml
>> 
>> Exporting U.S. jobs
>> 
>> Former textile worker, Jimmy, of North Carolina, laments, "We were
>> middle class." Now he is among the 6,500 employees of the Pillowtex
>> towel factory laid off in August 2003. Just two years ago, Jimmy and
>> his wife bought a modest home, believing their combined wages would
>> support them comfortably. Today, like many of their former co-workers,
>> Jimmy and his wife both work part-time and have sold many of their
>> goods to try and get by. Thousands of other former Pillowtex workers
>> are facing foreclosures, eviction notices and car repos, making
>> difficult choices about which utilities to turn off.
>> 
>> The Pillowtex closing was an event akin to a natural disaster. But it
>> wasn't an act of nature that shut down the plant. Rather, the firm was
>> overwhelmed by a flood of imports from China, resulting in the largest
>> one-day layoff in the history of North Carolina. The Pillowtex closing
>> dramatically portrays the devastation being wrought throughout
>> America's manufacturing power by Communist China.
>> 
>> Manufacturing businesses, from electronics to fishing lures, are
>> closing their doors in deference to Chinese imports. Three members of
>> the president's cabinet on a cross-country jaunt to promote the Bush
>> economic plan have encountered an earful from angry businesspeople. A
>> spokesman of the Textile Manufacturers points out, "as textiles from
>> China, India, Pakistan and Vietnam flood the American market, people
>> are losing jobs faster than you can count. China dominates the
>> market."
>> 
>> Ironically, China came in and purchased looms and other machinery from
>> Pillowtex, crating and shipping them to China.
>> 
>> As a CEO of a closed furniture factory stated, "trying to stay in
>> business, we asked our employees to be more productive, more
>> efficient, even take pay cuts. The employees stepped up and done all
>> we asked, but we could not compete with the imports. I feel like we
>> let these folks down. It's unlike anything I've seen in my years in
>> the industry. Plants have closed, people sent home; it's hard to say,
>> three, four, five years what industry will look like in America. I
>> think that at some point, this country has to think about what's best
>> for us. We run a risk in any industry that we let leave this country."
>> 
>> The effects of job losses go well beyond the individual who lost the
>> job. Each time a factory shuts down, it has a ripple effect on the
>> economy and the wages of other workers in America. In other words, we
>> accelerate our "race to the bottom."
>> 
>> The erosion of the U.S. industrial base has "enormous national
>> security implications," reports National Defense Magazine (August
>> 2003). The United States is so dependent on foreign countries for
>> critical components and systems that we may have lost our control of
>> our supply. We are now dependent on countries such as China, India,
>> Russia, France and Germany for critical weapons technology. For
>> America to be dependent on these nations is risky at best.
>> 
>> A very glaring local example is "Boeing to create jobs in South Korea"
>> (Kansan, April 2002). Boeing has a contract to make 40 F-I5 fighter
>> jets, the first-line fighter of the U.S. Air Force, and will build a
>> plant in South Korea, employing 30,000 workers to manufacture them.
>> Boeing also states that any future orders of F-1 5's will see
>> manufacture in the South Korea plant.
>> 
>> Our nation's manufacturing power has been the gateway to the middle
>> class for untold millions of American's, resulting in unprecedented
>> national prosperity. Asked to comment on America's grim economic
>> prospects, an observer declared, "I see an America where the middle
>> class declines to near-subsistence living. It's here already".
>> 
>> As I listened to President Bush in his State of the Union speech say,
>> "the economy is strong and growing stronger, and jobs are on the
>> rise," I could not help but agree with Joe Leiberman, who the next day
>> said, "This president is living in a dream world."
>> 
>> Anton Epp, Goessel
>
>
>America is on a suicide run. Without industry as its backbone the
>world's great political experiment in the mixings of people living in
>one nation will die a rapid death. Just how stupid have the people
>become who run America? We've become dependent on some of our enemies to
>remain strong? Even retards know better.

I don't think that people that run America became stupid -
they are smart and want to became richer. It voters that
became stupid. It voters that voted politicians to govern
them. And look what will happen this year - does not matter
who will win - outsourcing will continue and  health
insurance will go up.

Zalek