Re: How stupid does Microsoft think we Americans are?

Both my wife and me work for a US Airline,last Feb. we both took a 33%
paycut and are pension was handed over to the Government. At the same time
the SOB's running the Co. gave themselfs a bonus and made cash deposits to
their own pension accounts.
Now I understand "peasant" uprisings followed by mass purgings in the days
of old.

--
Mike Pawlak


Uncle Joe wrote:
> NO!!!! Not when Americans are being put out of work by the millions.
>
> I worked for a Fortune 100 company which ran the 45th largest data
> center
> the USA. The CIO got the bright idea to bring in almost a thousand
> Indians
> to learn our systems for three months. They flew in on three 747s and
> stayed
> at company expense at the nicest hostels in the area.
>
> We were threatened with immediate termination if any of the Indians
> reported that
> we were unwilling to cooperate, or if we gave them bogus information.
> At the
> end of three months, 460 American programmers, systems analysts, and
> product managers were terminated in favor of an Indian company
> performing
> my former company's IT maintenance offshore in India. The company
> liked the
> idea that because of the time difference, the company could uplink
> via satellite to India changes and, overnight, the Indians would
> complete the changes.
>
> 460 Americans with mortgages, kids in colleges, expensive cars, and
> unwavering loyalty to the company were terminated in favor of Indians
> who work for $10 a
> day. We all thought our futures were secure and we produced an
> outstanding
> network product for our subsidiary companies. Suddenly, pushed out on
> the
> street, many of us were 45+ years of age and unable to find jobs
> paying even half
> of what we had been earning. I was so stressed and furious that I
> nearly went postal. The executives just weren't worth me going to
> jail over. On termination
> day, two my friends went home and shot themselves to death. I had a
> nervous breakdown. I refuse to have anything to do with
> India--including calling MS's
> call center.
>
> And American manufacturing capacity is a shell of its former
> capacity. We were the arsenal of democracy during World War II,
> producing prodigious quantities of planes, tanks and boats. We'd be
> lucky to produce 1,000 tanks a year now.
>
> American manufacturing can't compete with the average Chinese factory
> wage of $0.60 an hour (with no beenefits.) Our government wants to
> further expand free trade zones to impoverished central and South
> American countries were the average wage is $0.25 an hour. That's
> great for Wal-Mart and Target but it is slowly dooming the American
> economy. Many of the free trade avocates don't realize that their
> jobs could easily be next. Ditto for all the people happily shopping
> at Wal-Mart. Will they still love Wal-Mart when their jobs go away,
> too?
>
> I'm utterly opposed to free trade zones and free markets. China and
> Japan certainly don't cut us any slack. Their tariffs on
> American-made goods are astronomical. So
> we keep incurring these huge trade deficits. Someday, we've got to
> pay all that back. If I were president, I'd swap twenty hydrogen
> bombs for the $162 billion deficit. "There, now we're even." (Smile.)
>
> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
> news:uvjKdg49FHA.1332@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Don't you believe in
> free markets?
>
>>
>> My answer is D " ALL OF THE ABOVE ". I totally agree. Before long
>> the USA will only have HIGH paying jobs for Musicians, Sports
>> Athletes, and Doctors. Which all of these will be basically going
>> broke because we americans won't be able to afford to go to the
>> doctor, a football game, or a concert... so thats out the window.
>> The only hope is to become a cop to help fight the crime wave of
>> millions of broke americans stealing and killing from whoever has a
>> dollar to their name .. just to feed their own families.
>>
>> If something doesn't change, our great country is headed for poverty.
>>
>>
>> --
>> mikesg
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