applicable here
Phil
Regarding job layoffs in the U.S.:
Joe Smith started the day early, having set his
alarm clock
(MADE IN JAPAN)
for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot
(MADE IN CHINA)
was perking, he shaved with his electric razor
(MADE IN HONG KONG).
He put on a dress shirt
(MADE IN SRI LANKA),
designer jeans
(MADE IN SINGAPORE)
and tennis shoes
(MADE IN KOREA).
After cooking his breakfast in his new electric
skillet
(MADE IN INDIA)
he sat down with his calculator
(MADE IN MEXICO)
to see how much he could spend today.
After setting his watch
(MADE IN TAIWAN)
to the radio
(MADE IN INDIA)
he got in his car
(MADE IN GERMANY)
and continued his search for a good-paying
AMERICAN JOB. At the end of yet another
discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided
to relax for a while. He put on his sandals
(MADE IN BRAZIL)
poured himself a glass of wine
(MADE IN FRANCE)
and turned on his TV
(MADE IN INDONESIA),
and then wondered why he can't find a
good-paying job in.....AMERICA....
Reposted from alt.humor
--
Phil. Empty bellies not retoric fuel the flames of revolution.
Michelle Fulton
"Phil" <sw...@greexheyes.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Regarding job layoffs in the U.S.:
[snipped pathetically true 'joke']
> and then wondered why he can't find a
> good-paying job in.....AMERICA....
Coming from someone who has been unemployed for 5 months (reason I have so
much time for ng's), this joke addresses the same logic behind keeping
American tax dollars, being spent on aid, with American companies. Perhaps
you saw where we were talking about that in another thread and saw the
connection...
BTW, I buy American as much as is reasonably possible.
M
Phil
Michelle Fulton <m.fu...@nospam-sbcglobal.net> writes
As a farmer protests veteran it would be hypocritical not to.
Hamish Macbeth
"Michelle Fulton" <m.fu...@nospam-sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Tcuba.434$x15.13...@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com...
> Coming from someone who has been unemployed for 5 months (reason I have so
> much time for ng's)
Oh, and we thought it was the witty company in the newsgroup :(
Hamish Macbeth
> In article <Tcuba.434$x15.13...@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> Well said. I try to support our industries as much as possible.
> As a farmer protests veteran it would be hypocritical not to.
Certainly buying locally is good for both keeping your friends and
neighbours in work and in keeping down the damaging
effects of transporting goods many times around the world.
However, if Americans were only to buy American the standard of living would
drop significantly, cloths made in USA are significantly more expensive
than those made in China.
Americans would not want the jobs as they are performed in China.
People in Asia are willing to work for less rewards than the West, the West
will not easily move to a common living standard.
The lifestyle of a British person who has never worked and always lived off
the state is considerably above the average world standard,
foreigners will always undercut on labour costs.
It may well be that the West will have to decide where it wants to source
its goods from, but to buy locally may not be
easy decision, but it does spread the wealth of a country.
World trade agreements of course do not permit the required restrictions.
Mike McDowall
<sw...@greexheyes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Empty bellies not retoric fuel the flames of revolution
Nice of you to add this to your sig. Points out the huge failing in
your logic. If we don't give the rest of the world a slice of the
cake, what will be the end result ?
Mike.
Huw
"Mike McDowall" <m.a.mc...@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:jqqt6v4gunlb4ro1f...@4ax.com...
Jim's logic? I thought he posted a joke. Never mind. Taking it
seriously, if a huge proportion of goods is imported it impacts
seriously on the country's economy. Service industries and state jobs
increase will take up the slack while the World economy is doing
reasonably but misery will result on a large scale in a recession. Of
course this may well result in less misery elsewhere, however the
responsibility of a domestic Government is to look after its own
economy and its own people first in the medium and long term. Always.
Well off middle class citizens and the comfortable socialist living
off the state can
The joke notwithstanding, we in the UK have a lot to learn from the
French and America in this respect. Charity begins at home with a
strong balanced economy where developing countries can supply the raw
materials we need. This may include a large proportion of our food,
steel and other commodities unfortunately. It's a fine balance.
Huw
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Jim Webster
they learn the hardest of all lessons
Gold for the Monarch
Silver for the Maid
Copper for the craftsman, skilled in his trade
Aye said the Baron, sitting in his hall
for Iron, cold Iron, is ruler of them all.
If they are strong they are rich, if they are not strong then they
depend on the generosity of those who are.
It's not nice, it's not moral, it just is.
--
Jim Webster
"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"
'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'
>
> Mike.
David G. Bell
j...@freeserve.spam.co.uk "Jim Webster" wrote:
> Mike McDowall <m.a.mc...@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:jqqt6v4gunlb4ro1f...@4ax.com...
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:48:04 +0000, Phil
> > <sw...@greexheyes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > >Empty bellies not retoric fuel the flames of revolution
> > Nice of you to add this to your sig. Points out the huge failing in
> > your logic. If we don't give the rest of the world a slice of the
> > cake, what will be the end result ?
>
> they learn the hardest of all lessons
> Gold for the Monarch
> Silver for the Maid
> Copper for the craftsman, skilled in his trade
> Aye said the Baron, sitting in his hall
> for Iron, cold Iron, is ruler of them all.
>
> If they are strong they are rich, if they are not strong then they
> depend on the generosity of those who are.
> It's not nice, it's not moral, it just is.
I always thought it was gold for the mistress...
The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses, is the
Land Rover.
--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.
"Let me get this straight. You're the KGB's core AI, but you're afraid
of a copyright infringement lawsuit over your translator semiotics?"
From "Lobsters" by Charles Stross.
Huw
""David G. Bell""
>
> The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses, is
the
> Land Rover.
>
Which can be just as big a money sink.
Andrew Heggie
<Ham...@buddenbrooks.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>The lifestyle of a British person who has never worked and always lived off
>the state is considerably above the average world standard,
Probably above mine also :-(
AJH
David G. Bell
<3e6f9...@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>
hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk "Huw" wrote:
> ""David G. Bell""
> >
> > The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses, is
> the
> > Land Rover.
> >
>
> Which can be just as big a money sink.
Land Rover franchised dealers are rumoured to charge more per hour than
estate agents.
The current C. Bell and Sons machine is an ex-Army Lightweight, and
total hardware cost, other than petrol, for three years, is still under
two thousand quid. That includes buying the beast in the first place.
Apart from a couple of lightbulbs, and a coat of paint, I had a hub oil-
seal fail, and decided to replace the brake shoes all round.
OK, so I suspect it may have been a bit bent at some point: REME had put
a new chassis under it, which makes it a pretty good deal.
Jim Webster
"David G. Bell" <db...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:20030312.19...@zhochaka.demon.co.uk...
> On Wednesday, in article <b4nc0b$1kl$4...@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>
> j...@freeserve.spam.co.uk "Jim Webster" wrote:
>
> > Mike McDowall <m.a.mc...@ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
> > news:jqqt6v4gunlb4ro1f...@4ax.com...
> > > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:48:04 +0000, Phil
> > > <sw...@greexheyes.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Empty bellies not retoric fuel the flames of revolution
> > > Nice of you to add this to your sig. Points out the huge failing
in
> > > your logic. If we don't give the rest of the world a slice of the
> > > cake, what will be the end result ?
> >
> > they learn the hardest of all lessons
> > Gold for the Monarch
> > Silver for the Maid
> > Copper for the craftsman, skilled in his trade
> > Aye said the Baron, sitting in his hall
> > for Iron, cold Iron, is ruler of them all.
> >
> > If they are strong they are rich, if they are not strong then they
> > depend on the generosity of those who are.
> > It's not nice, it's not moral, it just is.
>
> I always thought it was gold for the mistress...
you could be right, I have a bad memory for verse and tend to re-write
it to fit
>
> The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses, is
the
> Land Rover.
I would not recommend fast cars, horses I also find more trouble than
they are worth.
--
Jim Webster
"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"
'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'
>
>
>
>
>
Peter N Allen
"Jim Webster" <j...@freeserve.spam.co.uk> wrote in message
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these "buy our own" do-goodies
how big the scream is when our exports of Welsh and Scottish lamb, British
Beef(eventually), and the cream and dairy products export from UK to Europe
is still far more than NFU bothers to check on. Why not consult those six
little men in York called the DEFRA food export statistics unit. Smile
nicely and they will email to you the Excel spreadsheets with all the
products listed and accounted for. Bigger chunk of UK production goes
abroad than most farmers and politicians have bothered to find out.
Chat is fine, but I find facts more fascinating.
Peter A
David G. Bell
j...@freeserve.spam.co.uk "Jim Webster" wrote:
I've heard that Kipling wasn't entirely original on that poem, but I've
never seen the claimed earlier verse. I'm not sure whether it wasn't
somebody, later, running in a different direction to Kipling with the
Cold Iron meme.
> >
> > The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses, is
> the
> > Land Rover.
>
> I would not recommend fast cars, horses I also find more trouble than
> they are worth.
The Good Lady was a sprinter on school sports days?
Jim Webster
Peter N Allen <peter...@cowcash-uk.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b4pc4c$ksb$1...@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> how big the scream is when our exports of Welsh and Scottish lamb,
British
> Beef(eventually), and the cream and dairy products export from UK to
Europe
> is still far more than NFU bothers to check on. Why not consult those
six
> little men in York called the DEFRA food export statistics unit. Smile
> nicely and they will email to you the Excel spreadsheets with all the
> products listed and accounted for. Bigger chunk of UK production goes
> abroad than most farmers and politicians have bothered to find out.
got their contact number?
Jim Webster
I've
> never seen the claimed earlier verse. I'm not sure whether it wasn't
> somebody, later, running in a different direction to Kipling with the
> Cold Iron meme.
cold iron is the old way of deterring fairy, probably replaced by silver
when iron became a bit common
> > >
> > > The nearest I've been to fast cars, fast women, and slow horses,
is
> > the
> > > Land Rover.
> >
> > I would not recommend fast cars, horses I also find more trouble
than
> > they are worth.
>
> The Good Lady was a sprinter on school sports days?
she's always been very quick with regard to accounting matters if that
is included?
--
Jim Webster
"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"
'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'
>
>
David P
says...
>
> Peter N Allen <peter...@cowcash-uk.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:b4pc4c$ksb$1...@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
> > how big the scream is when our exports of Welsh and Scottish lamb,
> British
> > Beef(eventually), and the cream and dairy products export from UK to
> Europe
> > is still far more than NFU bothers to check on. Why not consult those
> six
> > little men in York called the DEFRA food export statistics unit. Smile
> > nicely and they will email to you the Excel spreadsheets with all the
> > products listed and accounted for. Bigger chunk of UK production goes
> > abroad than most farmers and politicians have bothered to find out.
>
> got their contact number?
>
>
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