Re: per capita GDP numbers : bogus?

"Phil Scott" <philscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Les Cargill" <lNOcargill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> yarmfelder@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> > Les Cargill wrote:
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>> >
>> >>Um, because not all that many people *are* out of work?
>> >>Granted, it's not dotcom boom out there, but it's
>> >>better than it has been.
>> >
>> >
>> > Odd you should say that. Everywhere I've been in the USA,
>> > everyone I've spoken with, the story is the same. It's
> impossible
>> > to get a decent job, and temporary jobs aren't paying
> enough
>> > to survive on. What country are you in, anyway?
>> >
>>
>> USA. Folks I know are having little or no trouble
>> in that direction. Compared to 2002/2003, it's
>> just fine. Compared to 1980, it's fantastic.
>
>
> I am a professional mechanical and electrical
> engineer...industrial systems, petro chem, semi conductor and
> weapons.
>
> In the 1980 to 1999 time frame I get about 50 phone calls a
> year from recruiters with 4 or 5 offers a year, of which I
> accepted enough to stay busy. In the 100 to 120k range per
> year if you broke it out that way.
>
> In the last 4 years Ive gotten maybe 6 calls, a little over
> one call a a year, no offers...same promotion tactics...and
> when I ask about rates the numbers are 60 to 80k mostly...in
> dollars worth 50% less than in 1995.
>
> Engineering to a very large extent regardless the lies told by
> the corporations offshoring the work... is going to Russia,
> India and China where PhD level talent can be had by
> telecomute for under 500 dollars month. In the US due to the
> high cost of living, driven up by high taxes..

Hold it. The Pinoccho regime have given us all
a HUGE tax break!! Don't you listen to Faux
News to hear the wods of Big Brother? What
HAS dramatically increased is land rent and
fuel prices and the cost of medical care and the
cost of higher education.

>. a low figure
> for an engineer to be able to even pay rent, transport and
> food is 300 dollars a day.

The food is very inexpensive. It is the rent and
the transport that kills.

> So the work is going offshore.
>
> Now fruit pickers..thats a different story...if you can stand
> working in 100 degree heat and can live on 5 dollars an hour
> after taxes its a hot deal... those are the jobs GWB is
> talking about...and driving cabs.
>
> Phil Scott

GWB will be very happy when you and the rest
of the productive and educated members of the
scociety are picking fruit and cleaning the bathrooms
of the people that own and control land and oil.

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of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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