On 5/30/2010 12:29 PM, harry wrote:
On May 30, 1:27�pm, wrote:
Peter wrote:
On 5/29/2010 2:34 PM, Douglas Johnson wrote:
�wrote:

The problem is the Chinese slave workforce. �And the fact they hold
don't allow their currency to float. �These sort of things never
went on in Smith's day.

Wrong at least twice. �The workforce in China is not slave. �In many
respects, it is more free than workforces in the US and UK. �The
Chinese may take any job they can get hired for, at any wage, and
with any benefits they can negotiate. True, in many cases, those
wages are far less than the US or UK. �But, in many cases, it beats
the hell out of working in a rice paddy. And slavery certainly existed in
Adam Smith's day, both in the US
and the UK. -- Doug

I thought that in the U.S. and U.K., anyone can take any job they can
get hired for, at any wage and benefits that they can negotiate.

Uh, no, not by a long-shot.

First, you have minimum-wage laws and all sorts of nanny-state workplace
rules. Then there are unions. Next is government licensing and permitting
for many occupations. Some jobs are intrinsically illegal! On and on.- Hide quoted text -

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I see you are one of those greedy Americans thaty wants everything.
Even steal the food out of your nieghbour's children's mouth.

This is the black side of America. Greed, aquisitivity, damn your
neighbour attitude.

Harry, we greedy Americans give more to help our fellow man than any
other country. If there is a disaster somewhere, Americans are going
to send help and even if it's a country that doesn't like America,
we're going to offer help. Americans are every sort of person you can
think of, some are very bad but most are not the greedy *******s you
seem to think we are and it's quite tiresome to hear it over and over.
It's like hearing people say that all white folks in The South are
racist and descendants of slave owners, it's preposterous and very
insulting. If we have a fault, it's that we don't tell the rest of the
world to **** off. Do you think for a second that Americans would
hesitate to come to the aid of your country if you were attacked or
beset by some natural disaster? What do you think we greedy *******s
would do? I'd like to know?

TDD