Tom Sixkiller ) wrote:
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: "leslie" wrote in message
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: Cub Driver ) wrote:
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: : How measured?
: :
: : Productivity is measured by the factors that measure productivity.
: : Basically, you divide Gross National Product by hours worked, adjust
: : for inflation, etc etc.
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: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0412-13.htm
: Exposing the Conservative Straw Man - "Productivity"
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: "Exposing the Conservative Straw Man - "Productivity"
: by Thom Hartmann
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: [snip]
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: Conservatives don't want you to know this, and - even more
: frenetically - are working to prevent any discussion of
: "protectionist" tariffs on labor. Their main argument - a straw man -
: is that "productivity" is responsible for the loss of American jobs,
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: That's interesting, consider that's not the arguments I've heard.
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: not a fundamental realignment in the rules of the game of business
: starting in the Reagan era and climaxing with NAFTA and GATT/WTO.
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: [rest of brushed off version of Marx's "Labor Theory of Value" snipped.
:

I didn't mention Marx at all. Communist China is no workers' paradise.

In 2004, the voters are going to elect a President who believes in
offshoring jobs and granting non-immigrant work visas, both supported
by corporate lobbyists.

Here's a good web site for those tracking offshoring:

http://www.goinstitute.org/news/index.shtml
GOInstitute.org - A peer-to-peer exchange for Outsourcing Professionals.

--Jerry Leslie
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