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On 23 Aug 2006 13:25:38 -0700, "Spread Eagle�"
<redsky@virtualhosts.net> wrote:

>Don Homuth wrote:
>
>> Or to ask the same question the same way, do you believe that Murken
>> Workers ought to live in a Third World lifestyle?
>
>Or, to ask the same question in yet another way, are you, a supposed
>multicultural progressive, actually in fact a racist elitist who
>believes that Americans are just somehow naturally superior to people
>in the third world simply by virtue of being an American, and for no
>other reason than that they are therefore automatically entitled to be
>paid 10 times what those other people of other races are paid in the
>third world for doing the same work?

What a Fascinating philosophical question, which attempts not to deal
with the initial one as asked.

>> Would you like to do that?
>
>I wouldn't be confronted with the prospect because I'm not an unskilled
>worker.

Skilled workers' jobs are now being outsourced elsewhere as well, with
the Only difference being the wage scale.

You may not be subject to that, you old Economic Elitist you, but you
soon could be.

>  America already has abundant natural advantages, like freedom,
>and opportunities for training and education, that allow people to
>position themselves so that they can rise above grunt labor, and so
>they shouldn't have to have their wage rates artifically propped up.
>If they haven't pursued and taken advantage of those ubiquitous
>opportunities, that's on them.  It's a global economy, baby.  And more
>and more so every day.

This isn't about factory workers any more.  It's about technical
workers and programmers and accountants and all manner of other
erstwhile Highly Skilled Jobs now flowing elsewhere Only because of
wage scales.

All that huffing and puffing still doesn't close with the questions.

Should Murken Workers live on third world lifestyles?

Would you?

After all, everyone can't be as Splendid and Wonderful as you, now,
can they?