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Globalization has caused the migration of opportunities and industries from the Western world to the developing world, especially to formerly Communist countries.
The global labor arbitrage is not in the interest of the working people in the U.S.
Cuba's potential opening will be negative in the following ways:
1. Work can be done cheaply in Cuba and easily outsourced. More Americans would lose their jobs and job security.
2. Cuba's desirable location and paradise climate, with its cheaper price tag, will add to the competition for tourist cities like Miami, San Juan, etc.
There are plenty of comparable nations jobs could be outsourced to already. The solution isn't to embargo Cuba, but to get to the root of the outsourcing craze.
You guys don't get it. Globalist or globalization is apparently the catchword of the day. Never again will we build refrigerators in Iowa or Oldsmobiles in Detroit. And you know what, no one is shoeing horses in Brooklyn anymore and there are no wheelwrights in San Francisco. But we can build super computer and nano technologies. We can develop hand made human organs for transplant and 800 mile an hour trains. But only if we can let go what used to be and embrace the future. All of it. Some of it will be hard an we will have failures. But we can succeed. We must.
Shame on you for caring about American industry. Don't you know that if we can just force McDonalds to pay $15 an hour, we will have a great country again?
You guys don't get it. Globalist or globalization is apparently the catchword of the day. Never again will we build refrigerators in Iowa or Oldsmobiles in Detroit. And you know what, no one is shoeing horses in Brooklyn anymore and there are no wheelwrights in San Francisco. But we can build super computer and nano technologies. We can develop hand made human organs for transplant and 800 mile an hour trains. But only if we can let go what used to be and embrace the future. All of it. Some of it will be hard an we will have failures. But we can succeed. We must.
All depends on when the future arrives. You can go hungry waiting for the future to become economically viable. Such as the promised green energy jobs and green energy replacing oil. The shortisghted economic extremists shut down industries long before their promised future arrives.
Who is the WE that is going to be involved in specialized highly technical nanotech? Very few people, that's who.
Shame on you for caring about American industry. Don't you know that if we can just force McDonalds to pay $15 an hour, we will have a great country again?
I only care that the people taste FREEDOM and money is the avenue --once free they can choose-- may take time but it will happen- ROCK on ROLLING STONES! good job-- why in H++ would Castro allow it? change is a coming-- please get over it-
All depends on when the future arrives. You can go hungry waiting for the future to become economically viable. Such as the promised green energy jobs and green energy replacing oil. The shortisghted economic extremists shut down industries long before their promised future arrives.
Who is the WE that is going to be involved in specialized highly technical nanotech? Very few people, that's who.
The when is now. The rest of the world is starting to pass us by and we are more concerned about crap that means nothing. What are they making in Iowa now? Blades for the wind turbines at the Bison project in ND. But at the same time ships in Duluth spent last summer unloading wind turbine blades, shafts, and hubs made in Asia and trucked out West. Why weren't those made here? I believe the wind turbines made in Iowa were made by Siemens. A German company.
Globalization has caused the migration of opportunities and industries from the Western world to the developing world, especially to formerly Communist countries.
The global labor arbitrage is not in the interest of the working people in the U.S.
Cuba's potential opening will be negative in the following ways:
1. Work can be done cheaply in Cuba and easily outsourced. More Americans would lose their jobs and job security.
2. Cuba's desirable location and paradise climate, with its cheaper price tag, will add to the competition for tourist cities like Miami, San Juan, etc.
I ain't worried about Cuba being a big problem; even for places like Miami because Cuba has few young people and the country's getting old and fast.
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