Re: Lest ye get too complacent

how pitiful.
 
 
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From: Kevin Gallaway <kevin_gallaway@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Steve Landess <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>; midrange-jobs@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 
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Sent: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:49:22 -0800
Subject: Re: Lest ye get too complacent


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I agree, let's get back to the real "reason for the season". It's the pagan 
celebration of the re-birth of the sun. Happy Yule season, everyone. 
 
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Landess" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Subject: Re: Lest ye get too complacent 
 
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>> Rob Berendt wrote: 
>> However approximately 75% of Americans feel the opposite. Or why else do 
>> they do a bulk of their Christmas shopping at WalMart? 
> 
> Rob- 
> What choice do any of us have these days? 
> 
> And, for that matter, it really doesn't matter WHERE WE shop now! > 
> Practically ALL toys (and, for that matter, most other consumer goods > 
> purchased here in the USA) are now made in Chinese sweatshops. 
> I just did a Google search on "toy factories sweatshops china" and got > over 
> 72,000 hits... 
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2139401.stm 
> http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/en/web/article.php?article_id=50302 
> http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/home/toys/ 
> http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/campaigns/disney/report.htm 
> http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/he-yi/ 
> 
> I'd also advise people to quit getting so caught up in the > 
> commercialization of Christmas... 
> It's the spirit of giving, not the gift, that counts most... 
> 
> - Steve 
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>> However approximately 75% of Americans feel the opposite. Or why else do 
>> they do a bulk of their Christmas shopping at WalMart? 
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>> Rob Berendt 
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>> Don't put words in my mouth, Eduard. My position on the issue has been 
>> clearly stated over the years: foreign workers should not be allowed to 
>> take 
>> jobs for which there are qualified Americans, and right now there are 
>> plenty 
>> of qualified Americans willing to work in high-tech jobs. The problem is 
>> not qualification, it's pay scale; companies would rather higher low-cost 
>> visa workers than higher-priced American workers. I don't want companies 
>> to 
>> bring low-cost foreign workers into the country to supplant American >> 
>> jobs. 
>> 
>> Joe 
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>> 
>>> From: Eduard Sluis 
>>> 
>>> So 'Bill' is opening the door for me, and 'Joe' wants it to stay closed. 
>>> Would I like the Chicago wether?? 
>>> Or better to reside under my personal palm tree and do the same work?? 
>>> Ok, Ok, I'm not that cheap that 'Bill' want to hire me (Or just not 
>> that 
>>> good). 
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