Neal Boortz Wednesday, February 18, 2004LET'S TALK ABOUT "YOUR" JOBSJobs .. and the economy. Those seem to be the issues that are drivingmany, if not most, of those who are supporting the Kerry candidacy. First of all ... I'm going to repeat this simply because it makes the whiners so unbelievably angry. Listen up. They're not your jobs!The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you! You have job skillsand, presumably, a willingness to work. Your task in a free economyis to get out there and find some employer with a job who needs yourskills ... and strike a deal.If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, or if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you.Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, oradjust your pricing. The employer knows what he's looking for. Ifyou're not it .. it's your problem, not his.Now ... you say you're going to vote for a Democrat this year becauseof jobs? You mean to tell me that you're going to vote against GeorgeBush this year because you don't have a set of job skills that are indemand in our free marketplace? Yeah .. that makes a lot of sense,doesn't it?Tell me. Just what do you want the president to do? You information technology people out there .. just what are you demanding? Do youwant companies to stop outsourcing IT jobs to India? OK ... tell mehow to do that. These companies aren't shipping parts overseas andcompleted products back. All they do is ship information overseas byphone lines or the Internet. Then that information is modified andshipped back the same way. What do you want the government .. thepresident to do? Do you want some federal law that prohibits companies fromtransmitting information overseas by the Internet, having thatinformation transformed or modified, and then shipped back? And tellme just how do you enforce that law? Does that law then apply to...

Excellent piece! Thanks for posting this.Robert...

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Ed Huntress 22 years ago

What happened to the idea that people who use a service should pay for it?

Think about what you're saying: your plan amounts to socialism for the rich. Everyone pays equally, but the rich are the ones who benefit. It's Karl Marx on drugs.

*Society* incurred the costs? As I said, Karl Marx on drugs.

So, we're going to speculate on real estate and trade pieces of paper with each other. Now *there's* a prescription for a healthy economy, and for a healthy society.

What ever happened to actually *doing* something for a living? Or is that just, as Leona Helmsley put it, "for the little people"?

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Dan Caster 22 years ago

Where did you get your figure of Du Pont selling a million pounds of powder to the government in 1812? I picked up a copy of William Dutton's book entitled " Du Pont " and subtitled "One Hundred and Forty Years ". It says the government ordered 200,000 pounds in 1812.

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Ed Huntress 22 years ago

Jeez, Dan, I don't remember. That thread was a while ago.

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axolotl 22 years ago

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It says production exceeded 500,000 pounds. It doesn't say by how much.

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Dan Caster 22 years ago

Thanks. That figure was for the whole war of 1812. Ed was saying that Du Pont sold a million lbs to the government in 1812. The book has the sales by the years along with other data on profits etc. It says that in 1814 Du Pont had $125,000 in inventory, debts of $100,000, Cash of $10,193.08 and was owed more than $7,600 by the government 15 months after peace was declared.

However in 1815 sales were 75,000 lbs more than the biggest of the war years.

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