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On 23 Jul 2003 12:14:30 -0700, jim rozen
wrote: In article , Gary says... On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:16:40 GMT, Gunner wrote: This is the biggest problem East Coast and West Coast Liberals have to deal with. They forget that the vast majority of the people between, in Fly Over country, simply think those liberals, are nutcases. The problem with that idea is that the majority of the US population is clustered within 200 miles of the East and West coasts. The people in "Fly Over" country actually *are* the minority. Hmm. I think I'm beginning to see the reasons for having a two-house legislature! Damn those guys were smart. Jim Ayup, and its still works just fine, after all these years, for the most part. Gunner "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" -- Ben Franklin |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:51:14 GMT, Lewis Hartswick wrote:
jim rozen wrote: we're all going to be flipping burgers at McDs soon. What bothers me (not realy since I'm retired) is if everyone is "flipping burgers" who is left to buy them. Just us retired folks who are on a low fat diet? :-) ...lew... Well, obviously, not everyone will be flipping burgers. Some will be in charge of the deep fryer, others will be manning the registers, etc. :-) In a service economy, lots of different services are required. Everything from doctors and nurses to landscapers, barbers, and mechanics, from cash rental agents (bankers) to salesmen of all sorts, movie stars, and movie ticket takers, etc, etc, etc. Each depends on the others for certain services. That makes the cash go round and round, and that's what an economy is all about. The health of any economy is primarily a function of the velocity of money. The more rapidly it changes hands, and the more hands through which it passes, the more robust the economy. It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:56:07 GMT, Gunner wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:56:59 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:16:40 GMT, Gunner wrote: This is the biggest problem East Coast and West Coast Liberals have to deal with. They forget that the vast majority of the people between, in Fly Over country, simply think those liberals, are nutcases. The problem with that idea is that the majority of the US population is clustered within 200 miles of the East and West coasts. The people in "Fly Over" country actually *are* the minority. Gary Actually not. Just the ones whom bother to vote. Check out the last Census. The distribution figures *are* from the Census. BTW, statistically, the people in "Fly Over" country are more likely to vote than the teeming underclasses of the major metropolitan areas on or near the coasts. It is only because there are so many fewer people in "Fly Over" country that the popular vote tends to be dominated by the metropolitan areas on both coasts. Gary |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:32:45 -0400, Gary Coffman
wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:56:07 GMT, Gunner wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:56:59 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:16:40 GMT, Gunner wrote: This is the biggest problem East Coast and West Coast Liberals have to deal with. They forget that the vast majority of the people between, in Fly Over country, simply think those liberals, are nutcases. The problem with that idea is that the majority of the US population is clustered within 200 miles of the East and West coasts. The people in "Fly Over" country actually *are* the minority. Gary Actually not. Just the ones whom bother to vote. Check out the last Census. The distribution figures *are* from the Census. BTW, statistically, the people in "Fly Over" country are more likely to vote than the teeming underclasses of the major metropolitan areas on or near the coasts. It is only because there are so many fewer people in "Fly Over" country that the popular vote tends to be dominated by the metropolitan areas on both coasts. Gary Got some cites? Gunner "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" -- Ben Franklin |
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The health of any economy is primarily a function of the velocity of money. The more rapidly it changes hands, and the more hands through which it passes, the more robust the economy. It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary Hmmmm.... The ghost of Carlo Ponzi is alive and well??? |
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"Gary Coffman" wrote It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary I suppose we can all sit around in the dirt picking fleas off of each other..... no tangible goods required, such as clothes, housing, transportation.... not to mention machine tools. Tangible goods ARE the economy....the service end of it is a byproduct of the manufacturing process. Subtract tangible goods and you will really have a "primitive economy". The outlook for this country is not good at all. Mark |
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"Uncle_Phil" wrote in message ... ((Snip)) The health of any economy is primarily a function of the velocity of money. The more rapidly it changes hands, and the more hands through which it passes, the more robust the economy. It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary Hmmmm.... The ghost of Carlo Ponzi is alive and well??? Gary's statement is essentially correct, or at least a lot more correct than the idea that an economy's health and wealth is based on extraction (mining), agriculture, and manufacturing. Those are the things we often hear, but they're the result of some misunderstandings. Two things to consider he Since the time of Adam Smith (late 18th century), the basis of modern economics has been the understanding that a country's wealth is the sum of its outputs -- goods and services combined -- in a given period of time. Thus, we see GDP and GNP as the most common measures of wealth in the field of economics. GDP should be in approximate balance with the product of the money supply and its turnover rate, which is also known as the velocity of money. The second thing to consider is that manufactured goods are really "packaged services." You don't buy a car to display as sculpture in your library. You buy it to get you from place to place, to provide the service of transportation. Manufactured goods tend to be very efficient packages of services, but the thing you're buying when you purchase them is the services they provide. So the distinction between goods and services as measures of "wealth" is an artificial one, which has led to many misunderstandings. Most services interact in some way with goods -- you need hamburgers to flip if you're going to provide the service of flipping and cooking hamburgers. But, in economic terms, it doesn't matter where those goods come from. And it requires fewer goods to stimulate demand for more services all of the time. That's why the US economy continues to grow even as the portion of GDP represented by manufactured goods continues to decline. It's now down to just over 10% of our economy. Ed Huntress |
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In article , "Ed says...
The second thing to consider is that manufactured goods are really "packaged services." You don't buy a car to display as sculpture in your library. You buy it to get you from place to place, to provide the service of transportation. Manufactured goods tend to be very efficient packages of services, but the thing you're buying when you purchase them is the services they provide. There's a lot of meat (hamburger?) in that paragraph, and I've never seen it put that way before. But from personal experience, working where I do, this has a definite resonance. So the distinction between goods and services as measures of "wealth" is an artificial one, ... Very interesting. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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"Gunner" wrote in message
... On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:32:45 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:56:07 GMT, Gunner wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:56:59 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:16:40 GMT, Gunner wrote: This is the biggest problem East Coast and West Coast Liberals have to deal with. They forget that the vast majority of the people between, in Fly Over country, simply think those liberals, are nutcases. The problem with that idea is that the majority of the US population is clustered within 200 miles of the East and West coasts. The people in "Fly Over" country actually *are* the minority. Gary Actually not. Just the ones whom bother to vote. Check out the last Census. The distribution figures *are* from the Census. BTW, statistically, the people in "Fly Over" country are more likely to vote than the teeming underclasses of the major metropolitan areas on or near the coasts. It is only because there are so many fewer people in "Fly Over" country that the popular vote tends to be dominated by the metropolitan areas on both coasts. Gary Got some cites? It depends on what you want "cites" of. Around 47% of the US population lives in the states that border both oceans. But, in 2000, 80.3% of the US population lived in metropolitan areas, defined the way the Census Bureau defines them. There are a lot of metropolitan areas outside of the coastal states. Is Detroit "flyover" to you, or not? Voting percentages vary widely. Arizona is the lowest of the mainland states, with 42.3% of the voting-age population (VAP) turning out for the 2000 Presidential election. Minnesota was the highest, at 68.8%. You can see the state-by-state results at: http://www.fec.gov/pages/2000turnout/reg&to00.htm That's the Federal Election Commission. For the population figures I listed above, see the Census Bureau site. There's enough statistics there to keep you happily cross-posting for weeks. g -- Ed Huntress (remove "3" from email address for email reply) |
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"Gunner" wrote in message
... Got some cites? Oh, I forgot to finish that thought. "Throughout most of American political history, small metropolitan and rural areas have tended to have higher voter turnout rates than metropolitan areas." -- Economic Development Digest You can see the rest of that discussion, and some related links, at: http://www.nado.org/pubs/oct1.html Ed Huntress |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:17:32 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Gunner" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 04:32:45 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:56:07 GMT, Gunner wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:56:59 -0400, Gary Coffman wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:16:40 GMT, Gunner wrote: This is the biggest problem East Coast and West Coast Liberals have to deal with. They forget that the vast majority of the people between, in Fly Over country, simply think those liberals, are nutcases. The problem with that idea is that the majority of the US population is clustered within 200 miles of the East and West coasts. The people in "Fly Over" country actually *are* the minority. Gary Actually not. Just the ones whom bother to vote. Check out the last Census. The distribution figures *are* from the Census. BTW, statistically, the people in "Fly Over" country are more likely to vote than the teeming underclasses of the major metropolitan areas on or near the coasts. It is only because there are so many fewer people in "Fly Over" country that the popular vote tends to be dominated by the metropolitan areas on both coasts. Gary Got some cites? It depends on what you want "cites" of. Around 47% of the US population lives in the states that border both oceans. But, in 2000, 80.3% of the US population lived in metropolitan areas, defined the way the Census Bureau defines them. There are a lot of metropolitan areas outside of the coastal states. Is Detroit "flyover" to you, or not? Thank you Ed. That means 53% of the folks live in Fly Over Country., and yes, Detroit is in that area. Its not part of the Beltway, or the Seatle/San Diego strip. In Here Be Dragons land..and having spent much time in Detroit..Here Be Dragons is about right...G Voting percentages vary widely. Arizona is the lowest of the mainland states, with 42.3% of the voting-age population (VAP) turning out for the 2000 Presidential election. Minnesota was the highest, at 68.8%. You can see the state-by-state results at: http://www.fec.gov/pages/2000turnout/reg&to00.htm That's the Federal Election Commission. For the population figures I listed above, see the Census Bureau site. There's enough statistics there to keep you happily cross-posting for weeks. g Ive been there many times before..which is why I asked Gary for cites G. I respect him too much to tell him straight out he was wrong ... Gunner "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" -- Ben Franklin |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:00:19 GMT, the renowned "Ed Huntress"
wrote: You should look at it from the other end of the telescope, Mark. All any of us do is supply services, unless we're farmers. "Tangible goods" are just services bundled into convenient packages. Your can opener provides the service of opening cans, not of delighting your artistic sensibilities. g Hmm.. what would you make of one like this one? http://www.designstore.com/alcancanop.html At $40.00, it's at least 85% delighting artistic sensibilities and only 15% opening cans (compared to my choice, the classic SwingAway®) ;-) Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:51:14 GMT, Lewis Hartswick
pixelated: jim rozen wrote: we're all going to be flipping burgers at McDs soon. What bothers me (not realy since I'm retired) is if everyone is "flipping burgers" who is left to buy them. Just us retired folks who are on a low fat diet? :-) No, not them. Retired folks are smart and know better than to eat that crap. -------------------------------------------- -- I'm in touch with my Inner Curmudgeon. -- http://diversify.com Comprehensive Website Development ================================================== ========== |
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"jim rozen" wrote in message
... In article , "Ed says... The second thing to consider is that manufactured goods are really "packaged services." You don't buy a car to display as sculpture in your library. You buy it to get you from place to place, to provide the service of transportation. OK, but thinking about this more, there is some coninuum. For example on the one end there is a car manufacturer who ships cars to end users. Then there is also the OK Cab Company, who provides the *exact* same end service (transportation), albeit with a very different boundary conditions. Cars: you own, you maintain, you fuel, you drive, available whenever you want. Two-way by nature. Taxis: they own, they maintain, they fuel, they drive, restricted on availability. Can be two-way or one way. But I would think that anyone would say that a taxi company is near one extreme of the continuum, and GM is at the far other end. Yes, it's complicated in practice. But it's a useful way to clear your head of the mistaken idea that only goods (and ag products, and mined products) can create "wealth." Ask the president of Goldman Sachs. He probably never built a thing, and he has lots of wealth. g Goods tend to go to consumers for non-business purposes, in which case they provide their service directly; or to businesses, as capital equipment or as consumables, like pencils to an accountant. So they're almost always an essential part of providing some service, and most services can't be provided without some products to help the process. But if you're a hamburger flipper, most of what you need is a spatula. If you're an airline, you may need a bunch of 767s. This subject usually comes up in the context of thinking about what the net economic effect is of a negative balance of trade. And the answer is, the trade balance itself doesn't give you the answer. It's complicated... There *is* a difference there. Besides, thinking about that aspect some more, some folks *do* buy vehicles as sculptures! Not in my neighborhood, except for the Ford "**** You" SUV parked across the street. g -- Ed Huntress (remove "3" from email address for email reply) |
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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
... On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:00:19 GMT, the renowned "Ed Huntress" wrote: You should look at it from the other end of the telescope, Mark. All any of us do is supply services, unless we're farmers. "Tangible goods" are just services bundled into convenient packages. Your can opener provides the service of opening cans, not of delighting your artistic sensibilities. g Hmm.. what would you make of one like this one? http://www.designstore.com/alcancanop.html At $40.00, it's at least 85% delighting artistic sensibilities and only 15% opening cans (compared to my choice, the classic SwingAway®) This is a good example of what a mature industrial economy does when it can no longer think of anything useful to make, that people don't already have in such quantities that they're selling their used ones to each other at flea markets. g -- Ed Huntress (remove "3" from email address for email reply) |
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"Ed Huntress" wrote in message .net... "Uncle_Phil" wrote in message ... ((Snip)) The health of any economy is primarily a function of the velocity of money. The more rapidly it changes hands, and the more hands through which it passes, the more robust the economy. It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary Hmmmm.... The ghost of Carlo Ponzi is alive and well??? Gary's statement is essentially correct, or at least a lot more correct than the idea that an economy's health and wealth is based on extraction (mining), agriculture, and manufacturing. Those are the things we often hear, but they're the result of some misunderstandings. Two things to consider he Since the time of Adam Smith (late 18th century), the basis of modern economics has been the understanding that a country's wealth is the sum of its outputs -- goods and services combined -- in a given period of time. Thus, we see GDP and GNP as the most common measures of wealth in the field of economics. GDP should be in approximate balance with the product of the money supply and its turnover rate, which is also known as the velocity of money. The great given, and I am an absolute expert here so pay attention, is that the velocity of money is increased approx. tenfold when a teenage girl is present in the household! JTMcC. The second thing to consider is that manufactured goods are really "packaged services." You don't buy a car to display as sculpture in your library. You buy it to get you from place to place, to provide the service of transportation. Manufactured goods tend to be very efficient packages of services, but the thing you're buying when you purchase them is the services they provide. So the distinction between goods and services as measures of "wealth" is an artificial one, which has led to many misunderstandings. Most services interact in some way with goods -- you need hamburgers to flip if you're going to provide the service of flipping and cooking hamburgers. But, in economic terms, it doesn't matter where those goods come from. And it requires fewer goods to stimulate demand for more services all of the time. That's why the US economy continues to grow even as the portion of GDP represented by manufactured goods continues to decline. It's now down to just over 10% of our economy. Ed Huntress |
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In article , "John says...
also known as the velocity of money. The great given, and I am an absolute expert here so pay attention, is that the velocity of money is increased approx. tenfold when a teenage girl is present in the household! LOL. Also the velocity of the hot water through the showerhead! Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 16:17:15 GMT, Ted Edwards wrote:
The designed purpose of any gun ever made is to kill or maim in the most efficient manner, clearly no other object comes into this category!! Rubish! What do you do with a sword? Ted or with the hypervelocity light gas gun that NASA developed to test space shielding? ck country doc in louisiana (no fancy sayings right now) |
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In article , "Mark says...
Perhaps you are right, Ed. I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert on this, and you have spent a lot of time and energy examining the situation. Geeze, Mark. How can you hope to match the posts of Lennie if you keep making remarks like that? Even worse yet, what if one day you opened up a post from him, and found the same words in there, but substitute 'gunner' for 'ed.' I think they would have to scrape us both up off the floor with a spatula. This is I think what does amaze me, how all different kinds of posters can co-exist on this ng - with you and your tolerance and deference apparently at one end of the spectrum! Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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"Jim Stewart" wrote in message ... jim rozen wrote: In article , "John says... also known as the velocity of money. The great given, and I am an absolute expert here so pay attention, is that the velocity of money is increased approx. tenfold when a teenage girl is present in the household! LOL. Also the velocity of the hot water through the showerhead! And the bandwidth over the phone and DSL line. Yup, those too! JTMcC. |
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"jim rozen" wrote in message ... In article , "Mark says... Perhaps you are right, Ed. I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert on this, and you have spent a lot of time and energy examining the situation. Geeze, Mark. How can you hope to match the posts of Lennie if you keep making remarks like that? Even worse yet, what if one day you opened up a post from him, and found the same words in there, but substitute 'gunner' for 'ed.' I think they would have to scrape us both up off the floor with a spatula. This is I think what does amaze me, how all different kinds of posters can co-exist on this ng - with you and your tolerance and deference apparently at one end of the spectrum! Jim LOL! Sorry, I'll try to do better! Perhap Lennie can give me some lessons..... Seriously, I wish I understood it better. There is so much mis-information floating around, especially in economics. Most of it is similar to Alice in Wonderland as far as common sense goes. While Ed and I disagree on a number of subjects, I suspect we are not very far apart on this one, especially regarding the serious consequences for our nation. Thanks for the kind words. Regards, Mark |
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"Mark Winlund" wrote in message ... "jim rozen" wrote in message ... In article , "Mark says... Perhaps you are right, Ed. I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert on this, and you have spent a lot of time and energy examining the situation. Geeze, Mark. How can you hope to match the posts of Lennie if you keep making remarks like that? Even worse yet, what if one day you opened up a post from him, and found the same words in there, but substitute 'gunner' for 'ed.' I think they would have to scrape us both up off the floor with a spatula. This is I think what does amaze me, how all different kinds of posters can co-exist on this ng - with you and your tolerance and deference apparently at one end of the spectrum! Jim LOL! Sorry, I'll try to do better! Perhap Lennie can give me some lessons..... Seriously, I wish I understood it better. There is so much mis-information floating around, especially in economics. Most of it is similar to Alice in Wonderland as far as common sense goes. While Ed and I disagree on a number of subjects, I suspect we are not very far apart on this one, especially regarding the serious consequences for our nation. Thanks for the kind words. Regards, Mark Check out this url http://www.unescap.org/pdd/publicati...in2002/ch2.pdf Unfortunately it is in pdf format which I do find annoying. It is one examination of the economics being discussed in this thread. Regards. Ken. |
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"charles krin" wrote in message
... hmmm...knives, axes, hammers.... Knives cut (anything you want.. doens't have to be meat). Axes chop wood. Hammers drive nails. Try again. Tim -- In the immortal words of Ned Flanders: "No foot longs!" Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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Gary Coffman wrote in message
The health of any economy is primarily a function of the velocity of money. The more rapidly it changes hands, and the more hands through which it passes, the more robust the economy. It doesn't really matter what jobs people do to make the velocity of money high. The notion that wealth is only measured in tangible goods output is primitive, and a fundamentally flawed way of measuring the health of a modern economy. Gary You hit the nail on the head, Gary The Republicans want to sit on all the money and let it trickle down to the rest of the people... Big business is squeezing little businesses and raping them by taking all the profit, then spinning of whats left. Laying off people to improve their profit on paper... The Gunslinger destroyed Iraq for Exxon and Haliburton. Tricky Dick is in the backseat at Haliburton... If they would pass some of the money around, people like Gunner would be alot better off. Eddy Wells Conroe,Texas |
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 19:44:34 -0700, "Mark Winlund" wrote:
Perhaps you are right, Ed. I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert on this, and you have spent a lot of time and energy examining the situation. That being said, I do know that there is an awful lot of misery out there due to our losing manufacturing jobs to places like China. I fear for my kid's (and his kid's) future. He's no dummy, and the employment situation looks very bleak with very little improvement in sight. It looks bleak if he aspires to an assembly line job. Those jobs, the one's not being automated out of existence, are being exported to other countries. There are a number of reasons for that, not the least of which was the union demands of the last half century which drove up the costs of semi-skilled labor far beyond its economic value. But if he aspires to a skilled service job, there are plenty to be found. The medical field is so short handed that underqualified third worlders are being imported to fill positions. If he trains to be a medical technician, pharmacist, or nurse, he'll never want for a job. Even the small field of broadcasting is desperate for skilled technicians, and the pay is quite good. I could get him a firm job offer tomorrow if he has the right skills and aptitude for the work. For less skilled work, agriculture is begging for workers, even the importation of large numbers of illegals hasn't filled the need. Of course the pay isn't great, and the work is hard, but that's the way it is with low skill labor. Gary |
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"Mark Winlund" wrote in message
... "Ed Huntress" wrote You should look at it from the other end of the telescope, Mark. All any of us do is supply services, unless we're farmers. "Tangible goods" are just services bundled into convenient packages. Your can opener provides the service of opening cans, not of delighting your artistic sensibilities. g Ed Huntress Perhaps you are right, Ed. I'll be the first to admit I am not an expert on this, and you have spent a lot of time and energy examining the situation. That being said, I do know that there is an awful lot of misery out there due to our losing manufacturing jobs to places like China. I fear for my kid's (and his kid's) future. He's no dummy, and the employment situation looks very bleak with very little improvement in sight. I have closely followed your articles on the subject. Regards, Mark I'm sure you realize that I'm not pointing this out in order to support the idea that manufacturing doesn't matter, Mark. The point is that the relationship between goods and services is a complex one, and that economic arguments have to be thought through before they'll hold any water. Many of the arguments in favor of manufacturing are poorly thought through and, thus, they are poorly argued. When you're arguing with free-trade ideologues, like the President's Council of Economic Advisors, it's no fun to get shot down before you utter your second sentence. The arguments in favor of encouraging a strong manufacturing base in the US are powerful ones -- if they're based on an understanding of such things as this complex relationship. It isn't easy and, when you get involved in it, you quickly reach a point where theories are being tossed around with little thought being given to the practical realities behind them. I don't try to argue economic theories with the economists but I, like you and the other readers of our magazine, can teach them a few things about the realities. -- Ed Huntress (remove "3" from email address for email reply) |
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the velocity of money is increased approx. tenfold when a teenage girl is present in the household! Dont forget the velocity of the cars on the street. (boyfriends) |
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In article , Gunner says...
Hint, at any time, the US could have eased the restrictions on Oil for Food, etc etc and gotten the oil for Exxon and Haliburton (whom doesnt sell oil btw..they are producers and service company) for a hell of a lot cheaper than tis gonna cost them now, with much bigger profits and better press. It's not just about getting profits for those companies (and the expenses of the war are not charged to them, btw) but just as importantly, to secure control over the flow of resources that go to the rest of the world. We now have some semblance of control over appx. 1/3 of the oil that china imports, for example. France, Germany, Russia, all rely on Iraq oil to some degree. Exxon-Mobil *does* sell oil, and I think Ed's comments about the thin distinction between goods and services could be appropriately applied here. Jim ================================================== please reply to: JRR(zero) at yktvmv (dot) vnet (dot) ibm (dot) com ================================================== |
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Shooting trophies in the living room make good deterents !!
So do the deer and turkey trophies come to think of it ! If I ever see any of those things idling outside my house, it will be time to use those tetrahedral tire tread perforaters! Jim |
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8 Murdered, 45 critically injured in LA Spree
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:47:51 -0500, "Tim Williams"
wrote: "charles krin" wrote in message .. . hmmm...knives, axes, hammers.... Knives cut (anything you want.. doens't have to be meat). Axes chop wood. Hammers drive nails. Try again. Guns protect innocent people from criminals. Like any tool, they can be used for good or evil. When Tony says "The designed purpose of any gun ever made is to kill or maim in the most efficient manner" he's clearly revealing his bias as if killing people was always a bad thing :^). John Please note that my return address is wrong due to the amount of junk email I get. So please respond to this message through the newsgroup. |
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8 Murdered, 45 critically injured in LA Spree
"John Flanagan" wrote in message
... Guns protect innocent people from criminals. Like any tool, they can be used for good or evil. When Tony says "The designed purpose of any gun ever made is to kill or maim in the most efficient manner" he's clearly revealing his bias as if killing people was always a bad thing :^). And besides, just shoot 'em in the arm or leg, medical technology is good enough these days that the perp will survive... though wether or not you'll get your ass sued somehow is now the question. :^) Tim -- In the immortal words of Ned Flanders: "No foot longs!" Website @ http://webpages.charter.net/dawill/tmoranwms |
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8 Murdered, 45 critically injured in LA Spree
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:14:11 GMT, "Mysterion"
wrote: "erniegalts" wrote in message .. . On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:37:54 GMT, "Mysterion" wrote: "Lennie the Lurker" wrote in message . com... Gunner is the ****ing joke, a subhuman in every respect. In general I agree. I wouldn't go this far. Other than his present tendency to tell defamatory lies about others he has shown himself to be a fairly decent human being. Or at least he was prior to Y2K. Perhaps he isn't in full control of himself these days? You must understand that I mean "subhuman" only in the ethical and moral context. He is bankrupt in both. Oh, o.k. in that sense would agree. I like to think its a conditioned response, like Pavlov's dogs, and so, he is no worse that a lot of the sheeple. He used to be smart enough to not depend on unthinking conditioned reflex responses. Of course, perhaps he doesn't really believe what he says these days and is just seeking approval of his extremist mates. (snip) Quit your goddam crossposting from drivel and wacko groups. This is rec.crafts.metalworking, not alt.sicko. So survivalism is "drivel" and wacko"? I'm sure the Federal Government and the Red Cross would be interested to discover that their recommendations are "drivel" and "wacko". Does either organization recommend "misc.survivalism" as a usenet group? Not to my knowledge. But the basics of survivalism (store some food, water, alternative cooking, light and heat arangements, have a plan to get the hell out of Dodge if neccessary) have been echoed by both agencies. Perhaps they could or even should have prior to Y2K. However it now seems to have mainly become an extremist political group. I've noted that, but have difficulty in restraining myself when it comes to opposing evil/stupidity. Likewise At one time, members actually offered support to one another rather than trying to lie and defame one another. ...But, of course, an "_ubermenschen_" such as "gunner" would never be so weak and human, would he? Goofer has a lot of problems. Obviously, but at least some are self-inflicted. He doesn't _have_ to tell defamatory lies about others. This would seem to be free choice on his part. Unless, of course, he is acting under orders. Then too, there is always the possibility that he doesn't consider accusing someone of being a self confessed criminal pedophile as a serious accusation. Perhaps pedophiles are welcomed or encouraged in California? They certainly aren't in Australia. Here known pedophiles are sometimes murdered. Possibly the only thing that could get one lynched these days. "_Magna est veritas et praevalebit"_ (Truth is mighty and will prevail). erniegalts [Australia] [misc.survivalism] |
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