>Thanks for the clarifications and for listening, Tom. Now, in what will probably be a vain attempt to correct the course of this thread:
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>Have you crushed your Sprint cellphone yet? Tore up your contract? Sold short? What are we going to do to educate these corporations that there may be a better way than outsourcing? When did the 20 year plan become a 6 month plan? Are we doomed to do all our shopping at Walmart? Is the only succesfull business model buyout or be hope to be bought out? Enquiring minds want to know.

Jim;

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Have you crushed your Sprint cellphone yet? Tore up your contract? Sold short?

There is no cell phone in my house nor in my possession!

What are we going to do to educate these corporations that there may be a better way than outsourcing?

Encourage them! Remember, buy high and sell low! In reality we have no control.


When did the 20 year plan become a 6 month plan?

Actually, I think it is a quarterly plan these days!


Are we doomed to do all our shopping at Walmart?

Not while we have Super K-mart!


Is the only succesfull business model buyout or be hope to be bought out? Enquiring minds want to know.

Buyouts help the bank, attorneys and a few investors. They are another cause of large numbers of people loosing employment, and eventually business disappearing altogether.

One example: I worked at Ampex (inventors of analog and digital video recording, and much more) when it had over 20,000 people worldwide. We were bought out three times within nine years. One fine day 16,000 of us were fired (1990) and today there is one building left with 55 people. I do not think I will get to enjoy my retirement plan should they evaporate.

To solve one or all of the problems that confront us is like Don Quijote attacking windmills.

“They immediately come upon thirty to forty windmills that appear as giants to Don Quijote. He tells Sancho that he is going to kill them all; keeping their treasures for themselves and doing God a favor by removing their evil from the earth. Sancho tries to convince his master that these are windmills, but to no avail as Don Quijote charges at them amidst Sancho's screaming.

Suddenly, a windmill that had been still, is put in motion by a strong gust of wind. One if its sails breaks Don Quijote's spear, then lifts and drops both him and Rocinante to the ground. Sancho runs over and says he warned him they were windmills. Don Quijote has a better theory: that Freston the magician (who stole the library and books) changed the giants into windmills in order to frustrate Don Quijote”.


I like the imagery! :)
Tom