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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

Don, 

> They can pay people $800 a month there rather than the $8000 here.  That 
> money does not go to the workers remaining but to the top.  Remaining 
> workers are laid off as fast as they can move process off shore.

IIfeel sadly vendicated in my pronouncements of a decade ago when virtually 
everyone's homestead plan included how they were going to move out beyond he 
sidewalks and gain the cash part of their income by some sort of IT gig done  
via modem.

The question begged itself, 'If the company can get their work done by paying 
you in the wilds of the US, why couldn't they just pay someone in, oh, say, 
India?"

The remonstrations were vehement.  'You don't understand, someone half way 
around the world COULDN'T do my job, sometimes it takes a hands on approach, 
uh, 
special skills I have, uh, never going to happen that my job will be 
exported.'

The outgoing tide is so strong that many people, on achieving IT credentials 
here, go to India to work.

If our manufacturing could be sent overseas, our supposed "service economy" 
was able to be transfered over the modem in a matter of seconds.