Thanks, kiki. I appreciate it. :) nm
Posted By: sam on 2008-09-05
In Reply to: Sam we don't always have the same view but - Kiki
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Well said, kiki.
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I'll be darned if I know--and I am a Republican! I don't like either candidate.
Thanks, Kiki. I appreciate your message.
As far as Obama leasing his offices from a leading company in outsourcing, while I am no fan of his, I don't think that means he is putting the stamp of approval on outsourcing. I think for someone to point at that and say that indicates he is is unfair.
However, he has said, as McCain has said, that a huge amount of the outsourced jobs are in the tech sector, computers, programming, etc., and both say we need to educate American workers to bring that work back to the US. And I think if you incentivize corporations to bring those jobs back here, at least some of them will. I don't think they are ALL that greedy. But, I am a glass half full kinda person, I admit it.
About the outsourcing of military aircraft...I did read up on that. Boeing got one of the contracts and Northrup-Grummond got the other one. I will have to find the links from the respective websites. While the European division of Northrup-Grummon won the bid, it is going to increase jobs here, not overseas. It took some digging to find this.
http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages/news_releases.html?d=138001
Obama has said that globalization of trade is necessary (outsourcing is a part of that). McCain says the same thing. They both agree that money needs to be spent to educate American workers. Obama has said that more money needs to be spent on infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc.) because those are jobs that can't be outsourced. I would say, though, they need to make darned sure those hired for those construction jobs are legal. That really doesn't help us as MTs. What hurts us as MTs is that most of the work comes from "nonprofit" hospitals and there is only so much they can budget for. We have a ceiling we keep bouncing off of. Yes, I think with the big nationals they want too much of a profit margin and are willing to sell us down the river to get it. I see the tide turning somewhat back to wanting quality work and some hospitals, etc. willing to pay more now for quality work. If that continues, we might be able to turn this around. What we need for hospitals, etc. to do is stand their ground and say they don't want work offshored. If they would draw that line in the sand, perhaps companies would line up...because you have to have a market. That is the problem I have with AHDI. I think they have let the profession DOWN, big time.
Well, I digress... :). Have a good day, Kiki!
Not directed at you, Kiki, just the guy who wrote....
this article...verrryyy slanted.
But all it says to me is that she is doing the job as governor of her state to take care of her people and it looks like she was doing a mighty fine job. Hence the 83% approval rating.
What I would be interested in is the same author looking at the lower 48, and seeing how much of their profits are off the top before a product leaves their state? I would imagine it is very close to that. It is a governor's job to look out for the people of the state, and she obviously put her people first. More power to her! If she pushes for the same principle on a federal level, we will do nothing but benefit.
Good grief, this person castigates the woman for doing her job and doing it well. At least she didn't siphon off a chunk for herself like many other corrupt politicians..it went right back to the people of her state.
And the interviewer could not resist the class warfare jibe: "Well I guess that means the Alaskan people are more important than we are..blah, blah, blah."
If this guy lived in Alaska he would be singing a different tune...sour grapes, class warfare. Typical.
Yep, I would be interested to know how much revenue from oil from Texas, oil from Oklahoma, coal from West Virginia...how much of that revenue is kept at the state level? My guess is as much as Palin kept in Alaska from Alaska's oil.
This article just reinforced for me why her influence is needed in Washington. She looks after the people who put her in office. Exactly what she SHOULD be doing IMHO.
Thanks, Kiki. Always hard to find true bipart anywhere...sm
these days. Thanks a bunch, I'll have to check this out later when I have time.
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