>>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.
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>Jim;
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>Have you crushed your Sprint cellphone yet? Tore up your contract? Sold short?
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>There is no cell phone in my house nor in my possession!

Bravo! And ditto.

>What are we going to do to educate these corporations that there may be a better way than outsourcing?
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>Encourage them! Remember, buy high and sell low! In reality we have no control.

Ok. I guess...

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>When did the 20 year plan become a 6 month plan?
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>Actually, I think it is a quarterly plan these days!

You may be right. It was just a guess on my part.

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>Are we doomed to do all our shopping at Walmart?
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>Not while we have Super K-mart!

And how long will that be? The way Walmart swept through this area and targeted K-mart specifically astounded me. When offered prime locations that seemed to me to better serve the community, they opted instead to build adjacent to every K-mart. The local officials all caved in and the results here reflect that decision. K-Mart is a ghost town.

http://www.kmartcorp.com/corp/restructuring_information/FAQ's/CustomQA.stm

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

Agreed.