<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">Every basic cost of<br>living just about is increasing at multiples of the inflation rate,<br>
yet wages for most remain stagnant, the cost of university and health<br>care is increasibly prohibitive, which energy costs skyrocketing this<br>disproportionately affects those in the lower income sector. </blockquote><div>
<br><br>On the other hand, do you know what an iPod cost 20 years ago? Or a broadband data connection? <br><br>I'm not saying either of those is a basic cost of living, but not everything is more expensive.<br><br>
Mike<br></div><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Zach</b> <<a href="mailto:netrek@gmail.com">netrek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 3/29/07, O'Connor, Michael P. <<a href="mailto:mpoconnor@switch.com">mpoconnor@switch.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> I will admit at this time I am not for it nor am I against it -- I am at<br>> the point of, stand back see what happens then make a judgment.
<br><br>Stand bank and see? So the millions of manufacturing and professional<br>jobs (especially in so-called knowledge worker fields) that we've<br>already lost is not indicative? ;-) I don't think this is a new issue
<br>where the jury is still out on negative effects. Who is the prime<br>beneficiary of outsourcing? Is it US workers? Certainly not? Is it the<br>US consumer? Perhaps but if you weigh the lower costs of goods versus<br>the loss in jobs it really doesn't help one's purchasing power if they
<br>can't find a decent job that at the very least provides for the<br>minimal cost of living (basic rent, basic food, transportation,<br>uitilities, taxes, etc.) The ones who are really reaping the benefits<br>of all this outsourcing is corporations and those who own significant
<br>shares of their stock if it's a publicly traded company. The trend in<br>business is not just to be profitable at the end of the fiscal year.<br>It's to have increasing profitability, increasing revenue and lower
<br>costs in every QUARTER. Greed rules the day. It's no fluke that the<br>income gap between the richest and poorest in this country is at<br>record level and the middle class is being diluted and in many ways<br>being priced out of the American dream. Look at the buying power of
<br>the US dollar today compared to just 20 years ago. Every basic cost of<br>living just about is increasing at multiples of the inflation rate,<br>yet wages for most remain stagnant, the cost of university and health<br>
care is increasibly prohibitive, which energy costs skyrocketing this<br>disproportionately affects those in the lower income sector. So yes I<br>do not see the average worker let alone the poor profiting much from<br>outsourcing in a global sense.
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