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21781 [lbo-talk] more outsourcing -- rank: 1000
<http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2004/0,4814,91787,00.html> Outsourcing could create 'wage compression' for IT workers An ITAA study says outsourcing is good for the economy -- but not necessarily for IT workers News Story by Patrick Thibodeau MARCH 31, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - WASHINGTON -- In building a case for public policy that supports the offshoring of U.S. jobs, economists rely heavily on a history that says free trade has moved the country ahead economically. But that doesn't ...
Document Size: 9012
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 09:44:52 PST 2004
21782 [lbo-talk] Clarke Effect: Bush's Poll Numbers IMPROVE!!! -- rank: 1000
Liza Featherstone wrote: >That's much more optimistic than my theory, which is that Clarke reminds >everybody of that annoying super-smart guy in your office who is more on top >of everything than you, always wants everything done "by yesterday" and is >chronically exasperated by your incompetence and thinks you should be more >concerned about problems in the organization than you are. So the vast >majority of people are identifying with Bush. And, apparently, the usu ...
Document Size: 5466
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 31 08:48:46 PST 2004
21783 [lbo-talk] report: Teresa worse than Hillary -- rank: 1000
John Kerry's Wife May Be Worse Than Hillary Clinton Summary: A report in a recent edition of WorldNetDaily describes the radical causes funded by Teresa Heinz Kerry. She appears to be even more overtly radical than New York Senator Hillary Clinton. Teresa Heinz Kerry, the Heinz ketchup heiress worth an estimated quarter of a billion dollars, has donated through the Howard Heinz Endowment, more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation. This foundation funds pro-Marxist anti-war groups, abortionist ...
Document Size: 5541
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 17:43:18 PST 2004
21784 [lbo-talk] the new political environment -- rank: 1000
Ruy Teixeira writes in his latest: Tax Cuts vs. a Balanced Budget vs. Increased Spending Ipsos poll of 1,001 adults for Associated Press, released March 24, 2004 (conducted March 19-21, 2004) <http://en.groundspring.org/en/go?j=1480708&u=3856> The latest Ipsos-AP poll has an interesting exercise that clearly illustrates the public's relative priorities when it comes to tax cuts, a balanced budget, and increased spending. These relative priorities can be inferred from the findings of ot ...
Document Size: 8685
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 17:18:16 PST 2004
21785 [lbo-talk] rallying behind W -- rank: 1000
Gallup Tuesday Briefing - March 30, 2004 [...] Bush Approval How did all of these events affect Bush's image in the eyes of Americans? Despite what many would have thought would be a bad week for the Bush administration, the weekend CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicates that Bush appears to have come through it unscathed, and if anything is in somewhat of a better position than he was before. Bush's job approval rating has been hovering right on the edge of the danger zone for a presidential incum ...
Document Size: 12266
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:48:08 PST 2004
21786 [lbo-talk] support for Iraq war rebounds -- rank: 1000
Gallup Tuesday Briefing - March 30, 2004 American Public Opinion About the Situation in Iraq Support for the War in Iraq In recent weeks, public support for the war in Iraq has rebounded, after reaching a low of 49% in late January/early February. Fifty-six percent of Americans say it was worth going to war in Iraq, while 41% say it was not, according to a new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28. The current level of support is essentially unchanged from earlier in March (55%), and i ...
Document Size: 7440
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:45:58 PST 2004
21787 [lbo-talk] poll results so far -- rank: 1000
Catherine Driscoll wrote: >No, seriously. I voted. What was the voter turnout in the last US >election? Is it expected to be more or less this time? In 2000, it was just under 50%, I think. hard to say whether it will increase. The country is very polarized, so the hard core may turn out, but the "undecideds" may just stay at home and work on their body mass indexes. >We're having an Australian election soon and I'd love to run this >quiz on LBOtalk re that election. Sure, ...
Document Size: 5489
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:41:49 PST 2004
21788 [lbo-talk] final poll results -- rank: 1000
The final results of the lbo-talk presidential poll: Whom do you support for president of the U.S.? percent votes George W. Bush 3% 3 John F. Kerry 60% 68 Ralph Nader 12% 14 a neo-nazi, to heighten the contradictions 0% 0 candidate of a small left party (SWP, SP, 4% 5 someone else 4% 5 undecided ...
Document Size: 5335
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:31:58 PST 2004
21789 [lbo-talk] Green Mayor With a Mission -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Jason West, the mayor of the little Hudson Valley village of New >Paltz who married 25 gay couples last month before receiving a court >injunction to stop, has been thinking about gay marriage for a long >time. . . . Damn, hope he doesn't retire from politics because of something I allegedly said. He's doing great work! Doug
Document Size: 4920
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:15:16 PST 2004
21790 [lbo-talk] Green dropouts -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >I'm much happier going back to what I was doing before, I can assure you. > >So, to be clear, I am not "whining;" that's your job when it comes >to the Nader campaign. > >Rather, our calculation was that our activism in the Greens would >not pay dividends at this time given the forces arrayed against us. >Of course, we might be wrong, and I hope we are wrong. I would love >to be convinced otherwise. > >In any case, you were among thos ...
Document Size: 6222
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 15:21:41 PST 2004
21791 [lbo-talk] Clarke Effect: Bush's Poll Numbers IMPROVE!!! -- rank: 1000
John Adams wrote: >On Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 04:32 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >>And not with crap like revenue-neutral alterations of the corporate tax code! > >What was that about, anyway? The press spin was "Kerry advocates cut >in corporate taxes". He would repeal a provision in the tax code that allowed corps to shelter foreign income. That would raise the effective tax rate, so the idea was to compensate for that by lowering the general rate. Thus, revenue ...
Document Size: 5420
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 15:13:04 PST 2004
21792 [lbo-talk] Clarke Effect: Bush's Poll Numbers IMPROVE!!! -- rank: 1000
J Cullen wrote: >Bush and Rove should be alarmed that he is below 49% even after >spending those millions to knock Kerry down. Kerry is in good shape, >but he needs to get back on the campaign and fundraising trail. And not with crap like revenue-neutral alterations of the corporate tax code!
Document Size: 5041
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 14:32:14 PST 2004
21793 [lbo-talk] trade & job loss -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >But the problem with the "churn" comparison is that assumably almost all of >those losing jobs in one place gain them in the new jobs. So the 310,000 >job losses per year are concrete jobs lost to the economy as a whole. Huh? That makes no sense at all. The "churn" numbers (see 'em for yourself at <http://www.bls.gov/bdm/home.htm>) measure gross job losses and gross job gains. Gross gains less gross losses = net gains or losses, which are ...
Document Size: 8278
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 14:06:57 PST 2004
21794 [lbo-talk] Re: Three Quick Things -- rank: 1000
B. wrote: >I think at root the >problem is slavish, worshipfulness of power, of people >being eager to associate themselves with what is tough >and domineering. How about Trump's show being a hit, and the line "You're fired!" achieving iconic pop culture status? Doug
Document Size: 4881
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 13:36:58 PST 2004
21795 [lbo-talk] Green dropouts -- rank: 1000
Man, you guys are a bunch of whiners. If criticism from the likes of me drove you out of the game - and I completely supported what you did in NH, so I don't know how this even applies to me - then how you going to take on the real power in this country? It took the Swedish social democrats something like 40 years from their founding before they won a significant electoral victory. And in their early days, they worked with established liberal parties to push their agenda - for decades. And Gonza ...
Document Size: 7464
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 30 13:33:26 PST 2004
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