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In reply to the discussion: Subject "food stamps" - guess who is making big money on them (and outsourcing the call center) [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)43. I'd be glad to send them foreign aid, as long as we get our jobs back FIRST.
Foreign aid to modernize their factories so they're no longer polluting like crazy.
Aid to develop clean energy systems instead of their dirty coal.
Aid to enforce workplace safety laws.
In the end, though, China doesn't want any of that - because all of this would also drive up production costs so high that nothing would be worth outsourcing there.
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Subject "food stamps" - guess who is making big money on them (and outsourcing the call center) [View all]
underpants
Jan 2012
OP
"they have recently made the decision to "require" at least 4% of all earning go into their
JDPriestly
Jan 2012
#6
The government allows employers to automatically enroll employees in a 401k plan.
nilram
Jan 2012
#45
A lot of government has been quietly privatized. These banksters are the Halliburtin of the safety
jwirr
Jan 2012
#3
So the personal business of US citizens, SS#, where they live, health records, place of work,
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#4
I fail to see the concern. Are you saying an employee of a company is more likely to break the law
RB TexLa
Jan 2012
#20
I have no idea of what the statistics on crime in these areas are, here or anywhere else.
sabrina 1
Jan 2012
#27
Try to keep up with the world you live in. The term outsouce is dated and dead
RB TexLa
Jan 2012
#13
Please show me your Global Citizen card. American jobs should STAY in America. Do you get it yet?
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#24
LOL. Economic isolationism has been dead for a long time. Keep screaming at the clouds.
RB TexLa
Jan 2012
#28
"JP Morgan is paid for each case that it handles, so that means that the more Americans"
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Jan 2012
#9
Typical bankster activity...making money crashing the econ and making money on the recovery.
Snarkoleptic
Jan 2012
#42