KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast
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For you zombies - the truth hurts and when they turn the lights out on your crappy apartment, job or small town - ACTIVISM is key - you can fight the the truth and the facts but you can't fight BS and a ghost! We all need to speak up now and get INVOLVED!
Think about this and what it means for our country 10 years out!
22 Statistics That Prove That The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America
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pez
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When you swipe someone else's work, the least you could do is give them the credit.
KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast
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AGREED - sorry for the oversight - this is not my work - please see this website
Core_Models
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You're right though KLUE, nothing screams "American" like bitching about how some group you're not in is ruining the country.
Particularly the poor.
Bravo for repping the ultimate cliche.
KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast
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Unfortunately cliches speak volumes about the truth - something has to be done about about how to create a country that has something in it for everyone - this is not going on now - the blowback has just begun - when you loose everthing - you lose it - rich, poor, middle class - current status quo ain't sustainable my friend - something has to give and - politics is probably the last hope - but I know Dems, Republicans, etc (is not the answer) peace!
gramarye
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The integration of the East Asian labor force into the global economy was bound to be disruptive, particularly to the worldwide low-skilled labor market. However, while it is true that American garment workers must in some sense "compete" with garment workers from China and Cambodia, it is also the case that American garment consumers (i.e., everyone who doesn't live in a nudist colony) get the benefit of having their goods produced at a substantially lower cost than the American minimum wage.
In addition, America's increased trade with emerging markets has opened up many additional American careers in transportation & logistics, international business, and even spinoff fields you might not think about like language education. The textile workers might be happy (for a time) if the country threw up its old trade barriers again, but the longshoremen would be less thrilled.
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Unfortunately cliches speak volumes about the truth
Well then, "Everything happens for a reason"...
roy
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KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast wrote >>
AGREED - sorry for the oversight - this is not my work - please see this website
Plagiarism isn't an "oversight." It's theft, and it's cheating. Where I went to college it'll get you tossed out on your ass and where I work it'll get you fired. You fessed up because you got caught, admit it.
KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast
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Yes - please keep drinking the cool aid! 1 billion Chinese and 50 million working Americans competing for the same jobs (and a complicit Congress and IRS aiding and abetting the offshoring of the US middle class) is and global companies that don't give a rat's ass for the USA and American consumers who will put their Dad out of a job to save 5 percent - will indeed lead to $5.00/hour in the USA - it is happening NOW - There is NO DEMAND MY FRIEND - b/c there are not decent JOBS that pay anything worth making - PLS watch employment, housing, the stock market - this is economics 101 (supply and demand curve) and it ain't in our favor!! The new Asian middle class on $5.00 a day - ain't buying much MADE IN THE USA stuff!
gramarye
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Global companies care greatly about the American consumer, and that includes non-American global companies. America remains a massive market, even with the household deleveraging going on now. Caring about them as consumers doesn't mean paying them more than their due as workers, however.
Also, creating jobs isn't a matter of waving a magic wand and it's also not a matter of just giving a bunch of people more money to spend.
Analogue Kid
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gramarye wrote >>
The integration of the East Asian labor force into the global economy was bound to be disruptive, particularly to the worldwide low-skilled labor market. However, while it is true that American garment workers must in some sense "compete" with garment workers from China and Cambodia, it is also the case that American garment consumers (i.e., everyone who doesn't live in a nudist colony) get the benefit of having their goods produced at a substantially lower cost than the American minimum wage.
In addition, America's increased trade with emerging markets has opened up many additional American careers in transportation & logistics, international business, and even spinoff fields you might not think about like language education. The textile workers might be happy (for a time) if the country threw up its old trade barriers again, but the longshoremen would be less thrilled.
I actually agree with you, but I will add that countries that deliberately devalue their currency (like China) distort the market by not allowing the truly best competitor to win. We need more fair trade; imagine how much industrial equipment Ohio could export if the companies had a fair chance.
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Analogue Kid wrote >>
gramarye wrote >>
The integration of the East Asian labor force into the global economy was bound to be disruptive, particularly to the worldwide low-skilled labor market. However, while it is true that American garment workers must in some sense "compete" with garment workers from China and Cambodia, it is also the case that American garment consumers (i.e., everyone who doesn't live in a nudist colony) get the benefit of having their goods produced at a substantially lower cost than the American minimum wage.
In addition, America's increased trade with emerging markets has opened up many additional American careers in transportation & logistics, international business, and even spinoff fields you might not think about like language education. The textile workers might be happy (for a time) if the country threw up its old trade barriers again, but the longshoremen would be less thrilled.I actually agree with you, but I will add that countries that deliberately devalue their currency (like China) distort the market by not allowing the truly best competitor to win. We need more fair trade; imagine how much industrial equipment Ohio could export if the companies had a fair chance.
China had help and encouragement as have many others.
In 1994 Clinton ok'd China devaluing the yuan by about 30% and then gave them favored nation trading status. The US like many other nations uses trade and econ policy as a weapon, sometimes even against its own citizens.
gramarye
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pedex wrote >>
Analogue Kid wrote >>
gramarye wrote >>
The integration of the East Asian labor force into the global economy was bound to be disruptive, particularly to the worldwide low-skilled labor market. However, while it is true that American garment workers must in some sense "compete" with garment workers from China and Cambodia, it is also the case that American garment consumers (i.e., everyone who doesn't live in a nudist colony) get the benefit of having their goods produced at a substantially lower cost than the American minimum wage.
In addition, America's increased trade with emerging markets has opened up many additional American careers in transportation & logistics, international business, and even spinoff fields you might not think about like language education. The textile workers might be happy (for a time) if the country threw up its old trade barriers again, but the longshoremen would be less thrilled.I actually agree with you, but I will add that countries that deliberately devalue their currency (like China) distort the market by not allowing the truly best competitor to win. We need more fair trade; imagine how much industrial equipment Ohio could export if the companies had a fair chance.
China had help and encouragement as have many others.
In 1994 Clinton ok'd China devaluing the yuan by about 30% and then gave them favored nation trading status. The US like many other nations uses trade and econ policy as a weapon, sometimes even against its own citizens.
That doesn't take anything away from AK's point, though. Artificially low currencies, when made so by state action, are a deviation from free market principles.
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what free market? almost 100% of it is artificially manipulated, it's one of the principle ways of maintaining control and getting what you want
The US just like China does anything and everything in its own interests or the interests of those in power often even when they have bad consequences on their own citizens or others. The US is one of the biggest manipulators of trade and currency ever. The US also like many others subsidizes entire industries and then uses that against poor nations. Its all part of the game just like loan sharking, arms dealing, strong arming nations, bribery, and outright extortion or military occupation. Free trade and free markets are a myth, would it to become reality if you really want unrestricted free trade if it could happen would devastate this nation. Unrestricted global wage arbitrage, say good bye middle class even quicker than it is already happening.
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KingLincolnUrbanEnthusiast wrote >>
AGREED - sorry for the oversight - this is not my work - please see this websitePlagiarism isn't an "oversight." It's theft, and it's cheating. Where I went to college it'll get you tossed out on your ass and where I work it'll get you fired. You fessed up because you got caught, admit it.
NYT's Stanley Fish claims it is not a big moral deal: Plagarism is not a big moral deal.
Plagiarism is like that; it’s an insider’s obsession. If you’re a professional journalist, or an academic historian, or a philosopher, or a social scientist or a scientist, the game you play for a living is underwritten by the assumed value of originality and failure properly to credit the work of others is a big and obvious no-no. But if you’re a musician or a novelist, the boundary lines are less clear (although there certainly are some) and if you’re a politician it may not occur to you, as it did not at one time to Joe Biden, that you’re doing anything wrong when you appropriate the speech of a revered statesman.And if you’re a student, plagiarism will seem to be an annoying guild imposition without a persuasive rationale (who cares?); for students, learning the rules of plagiarism is worse than learning the irregular conjugations of a foreign language. It takes years, and while a knowledge of irregular verbs might conceivably come in handy if you travel, knowledge of what is and is not plagiarism in this or that professional practice is not something that will be of very much use to you unless you end up becoming a member of the profession yourself. It follows that students who never quite get the concept right are by and large not committing a crime; they are just failing to become acclimated to the conventions of the little insular world they have, often through no choice of their own, wandered into. It’s no big moral deal; which doesn’t mean, I hasten to add, that plagiarism shouldn’t be punished  if you’re in our house, you’ve got to play by our rules  just that what you’re punishing is a breach of disciplinary decorum, not a breach of the moral universe.
gramarye
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Students should learn not to plagiarize for a different reason: citations generally make a paper give a more favorable first impression. Obviously, if the prof gets suspicious and starts checking those citations and they don't say anything remotely resembling what you're saying they say, that will hurt. However, in most academic settings, citations help much more than they hurt.
In most professional arenas, things are indeed different. Stopping to say "as once said by {AUTHOR} in {WORK} ...." when giving a speech to a broad audience is awkward and often doesn't make your speech that much more credible. In fact, it can give it a whiff of insincerity by giving the counterproductive impression to your audience that you're hiding behind some important-sounding names that they've never heard of. Even names that are household names to the chattering classes (e.g., Milton Friedman, Joseph Stiglitz) aren't exactly known much more widely than your average MLB player (and that may be being overly charitable).
On the Web, however, particularly in the blogosphere, plagiarism without a link remains a serious issue because of financial implications, modest though they may be in the grander scheme of things. Linking to your sources is important because it may drive some measure of traffic, however small, to the originating site. Those page views are important. In addition, linking to one's sources does not disrupt the flow of one's speech or otherwise stylistically hamper one's argument on the Internet.
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