On 05 Sep 2008 18:52:52 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm,
(Curt Welch) quickly quoth:

Jim Chandler wrote:
John Doe wrote:

"Ivan Vegvary" wrote:

snipped bragging about buying stuff made in China

That was my Saturday morning,
Ivan Vegvary


So you guys don't see anything wrong with putting your fellow workers
out of a job, and then cheering about it.

You need to start understanding that the Chinese are your fellow workers as
well and if they are willing to work for 50 cents an hour (which is typical
of what they get paid) it means they need the money a hell of a lot more
than the guy down the street from you is having trouble finding "good work"
at $25 per hour.

That's not completely true, Curt. The wages in a country are usually
indicative of its environment. The guy down the street has a mortgage,
one or more cars, eleven types of insurances, 500 channels of TV,
radios, CDs, MP3 players, etc. The guy in China was given his home
(or he built it himself), has no insurance, no mortgage, no TV or
electronics needing to be fed, etc. Cost of living is near nothing
there, while it's high as hell here. 50 cents an hour could be top
wages in his xian (county.)


Well, if the "fellow workers" would produce a product that was worth a
**** at a reasonable cost perhaps we wouldn't have to buy stuff made in
China. Ever think about THAT?

It's easy for any healthy average intelligence American to make 10 times
what those guys in China are making. Be happy we live in a country where
true good paying work and such a high standard of living is so easy to come
by.

And we pay for all our amentities directly from the higher wages.


As things average out, China's standard of living will equalize with the
rest of the developed world and jobs will stop drifting over there. The
more Americans keep pretending we have some God given right to be lazy and
rich (by world standards) the more we will see these 9-11 type events where
the the rest of the world kicks our butts for being such ass holes.

Hmm, you seem to hate us a lot...are you a Democrat?


I'm not against anyone who is willing to pay more to buy American goods to
help support fellow American workers.

Let's hope not. That'd be unamerican! g


I do it at times. But I think we
actually do the world as a whole far more good, by buying from whoever is
willing to to work the hardest for the least money to produce the best
product. Supporting people for doing a good job, is never a bad thing, no
matter where they live.

True, and now that the global workforce/economy/market genies are out
of the bottle, there is no going back.


--
Who is wise? He that learns from every One.
Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions.
Who is rich? He that is content.
Who is that? Nobody.
-- Benjamin Franklin