>>>Or let's try something that hurts more: companies outsourcing jobs probably still have the tax benefits they got for creating the original jobs here. Which party will pick that issue and push it through the media?
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>>Again, demand driven. First, identify a company that has tax breaks ( specifically ) and outsources jobs ( how many, to where ) contrary to the spirit of the tax break. ( i.e they had to get the tax breaks originally because they created domestic jobs )
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>>I don't think it would be difficult at all to find either a politician or a media outlet who would be interested. (I'm sure such cases exist, but until someone identifies a specific case it is hard to get media or politicians fired up about a generalized impression that something is happening. You have to put faces on it.) And I'm sure some elements of both the media and the political culture are looking for test cases.
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>What do you think how did I know of this? It was in the media. But nobody picked up...
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>>But this is not the fault of the system/society/government etc. there is a lot of stuff going on and issues will get attention according to the number of people they impact and teh skill those who care employ in getting others to care.
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>...because this is exactly the Milošević style of screwing people up, never too many at a time, so you never get a critical mass which would complain loud enough. By the time the problem becomes widespread, it's too late.
I completely agree that there is a lot injustice to be addressed and I always feel we are not getting our money's worth out of our governments. but I also have low expectations that government is qualified to social engineer solutions to many of these problems. I believe many can be solved, but only by the private sector creating win-win situations where a solution is accepted because it works rather than mandated because "the experts" have decided it is good for us.
I think it is the duty of government to create a stable environment for this work and remove as many obstacles as possible.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
