So I guess this means you're for the poor, unless the poor happen to live
somewhere else?

----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff" <jefflist@whitebuddha.com>
To: <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: US IT jobs going overseas creating 'IT Rust Belt'.

> I found this in the article:
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> "It's easy to blame greedy CEOs for this mess, but employers aren't just
> being greedy when they shift these jobs to foreign workers. If they
> don't and their competitors do, they have to charge more for the same
> products and services. Not exactly a formula for success. And when
> business shifts to the competitors, the jobs do too -- overseas."
>
> CEO's share hugely in the blame.  The problem is simple when you look at
> it from the right perspective.  This is a class war, rich against poor.
> In case you didn't know it this war has been going on since civilization
> has existed.  America is moving towards becoming a thirld world
> country.  The rich want slaves; they don't like the middle class and
> they want to eliminate it.  The ultra-rich, who run this country, will
> not say this, maybe they don't even think about this much consciously,
> but all you have to do is look at their actions.
>
> There is one really easy way to measure the result of their actions
> called the Gini ratio.  With this metric (I'm pretty sure this is an
> international metric) you can assess the damage caused in a society by
> the rich.  Be sure to take a look at the graph on this web page to get
> an idea of the damage done by reagonomics.
>
> http://arts.bev.net/roperldavid/politics/inequality.htm
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> There is a measure of income inequality called the Gini index or Gini
> ratio. "The Gini ratio (or index of income concentration) is a
> statistical measure of income equality ranging from 0 to 1. A measure of
> 1 indicates perfect inequality; i.e., one person has all the income and
> the rest have none. A measure of 0 indicates perfect equality; i.e. all
> people having equal shares of income."-from
> http://blue.census.gov/hhes/income/defs/alldef.html. (Also, see
> http://www.iadb.org/exr/IDB/stories/1998/eng/e1198i.htm.) The Gini
> ratios for the U.S. are available at:
> http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/f04.html (See table at bottom.)
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>
> Guess what? When the Gini ratio becomes high enough you have a third
> world country, almost no middle class, just rich and poor.  If America's
> population explodes to the projected 500 billion some time around 2050
> we will probably be third world country.  If people in this country stop
> being cowards we can change this.
>
> Earlier I saw a post on this list about not posting political things.
> This list needs a political post once a week.  The reason we're in this
> shit is because the American public is too depoliticized.  Everything is
> political and if you don't participate prepare to become roadkill.  All
> of you without jobs right now are roadkill.  Things will get much, much
> worse if the Republicans take the next presidency.
>
> One more interesting fact:  The Great Depression was preceded by four
> republican presidents who exercised similar economic policies.  A
> democratic president brought us out.  Now both parties are more similar,
> but still different enough that we would be far far better off if Gore
> was president.
>
> > http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/07/12/020715opsurvival_1.html
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