Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I knew that things were going sour when the US stopped making its last television about 10 years ago. We have become addicted to cheap Chinese imports and cheap unhealthy food. Didn't Rome screw up like this a few thousand years ago? On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:03:18 -0700, GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: > Jeffery Smith wrote: > > > I think the problem is that, in order to keep rolling back them > > prices, they have to buy everything from China and hire people who > > cannot get a job that pays more than minimum wage. Any job that pays > > minimum wage is likely to have some people who don't exercise good > > judgement. ;-) > > > > Jeffery > > > > What is even more horrifying to me is that they steamroll over their > competition in small cities and towns and are well on thier way to > creating a national economy that is dependent on a vicious circle of cheap > imports and low paying jobs. This in turn damns some of their current > employees' children to diminished opportunities as Wal-mart clerks, > McDonalds fry guys or strangling chickens for the Colonel. > > Regards, > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >