I guess it serves us right for taking their land and giving them those
infested blankets. But I guess they have those casinos so that makes
up for all that earlier bad stuff right? just kidding...

It sucks when your specific occupation is being globalized and you
still have to buy products and services from people who's occupations
haven't (e.g. legal drugs). In theory, as your wages are being
reduced, so are the costs of the things you have to buy. Your
neighbors make less money too, so when you go compete to buy that
house, you both offer less. It's called deflation, and when people
have borrowed all the cheap money they can, you'll see it in full
effect. When you call customer service, you're talking to someone
that makes $3/hr instead of $30/hr, and that, COULD reduce the price
of that service. Its a race to the bottom.

More likely, in the short term, it just boosts corporate profits.
Look at the stock market, going like gang busters. But anyone can be
a share holder, and many of us are. So some of that money goes in our
pockets.

In this environment people dig in and go to zones of protection. AMA
keeps foreign doctors from being down the price of doctors. Engineers
move back to aerospace jobs (and lower pay) that require citizenship.
Businesses collude to protect ther markets, and politicians are
"incented" to pass laws that further protect their markets.

Example: Normally globalization of the perscription drug biz would
mean that this cost would go down. It started to happen with people
going to Canada to buy the exact same drugs for a fraction of the
price they were being charged here. So if you're in the business of
selling drugs how do you counter that? You get politicians to make
drug a card for everyone to use where the counter price is about the
same as the Canada price. Then you collect the aggregate difference
in price (High price - card price) from the same individuals every
week in their paychecks, call it federal tax, and hand it over to the
drug sellers. You can't stop 'em from docking your wages, so ya might
as well use the card right? There's a word for a system like that:
"corrupt".

Regarding Canadian drugs, the FDA has stepped in and said its illegal,
and that they're protecting us from ourselves. Thats just total f'ing
BS because Canadians take those drugs and don't love life any less
than us. What is the health effect on somone that doesn't take a drug
because he couldn't afford it? I say give 'em a choice, they're
grown-ups and deserve, if nothing else, a fighting chance.

stepping off soap box


Richard Carlisle wrote in message news:BC8CD4CF.3CA6%rrc62remove_to_respond@adelphi a.net...

I don't hate Indians, just the corporations and laws that make it
almost mandatory that they are brought here.


They are not on the top MY list of favorite people. Add me to the list of
unemployed software people....thanks to the Indians.

Ross