--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "ritu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Sloan II wrote: > > > The Fool wrote: > > > > > > Let's see India, China, or Russia belly up to the bar and > > > > pay their fair share of the hundreds-of-billions of dollars > > > > per year being stolen from the US Taxpayer to make > > > > outsourcing possible. > > > > ritu wrote: > > > > > What does 'belly up to the bar' mean? > > > > From context, I think it means going to the bar and paying for > > your drinks -- in other words, paying up. > > Thanks for the explanation, Steve. :) > > So India and China are supposed to responsible for the decisions of the > US companies...else they would not have a 'share' to pay up...just > imagine that. Never knew we had that kind of an influence. ;) > > > > And I am not sure what you mean by the rest of the sentence > > > after that phrase either. Could you please elaborate? > > > > He's claiming that US taxpayers pay hundreds of billions of dollars > > a year to support the US military, which is necessary to keep world > > politics stable. Without that stability, outsourcing would not be > > possible. So, he's claiming that US citizens pay taxes to eliminate > > their own jobs, while citizens of China and India benefit for free. > > I wonder if s/he wants India and China to pay for the US military's > upkeep...Given the US role in the region's politics, that would be an > interesting proposal to float. I can just see a couple of billion people > rendered apoplectic. :) > > Ritu
Ritu, your mising the rest of the story. American companies get billions and billions of dollars a year in tax reliefe (that's money that the US taxpayer has to make up). They get this reliefe supposedly becouse it's supposed to help them create jobs for americans. The American worker is starting to feel that they are getting taxed so that jobs can be created in Indea etc. We have nothing against the Indean worker, it's just that we pay our taxes an work in our country for ~our~ country, not so we can subsidize job groth elsewhere, and especialy when that job growth is at the expense of jobs here at home. It may sem aufuly uncaring and not a small amount nationalistic, but still, you can only keep asking what you can do for your country for so long, without your country doing something for you. When it's all take and no, give, then what's the point? We have had this discussion befor. This isn't about free markets. If it was a free market, then it woud be about hiering the most qualified worker, well, the most economicaly qualified worker. Every worker woulod be free to apply for every job. But that is not the case here. It's not like Indea will allow any joe shmoe to move to Bangalore and start applying for the job he use to have in San Jose. It's also not like the Indian worker is being aforded all the rights the american would be acusdomed to, even if he could move and apply. And you will have to pardon the american worker if he or she feels a little like his financial well being is being stolen. What is more, it's not just our economy, it's our very way of life. Indea may not be to blame, but that is really hard to tell someone who has been shoved out on the streets. And what is more, it may be out leaders who are to blame, but I'm sorry, fixing that problem, is still going to take it all back. Personaly I am a little tired of the Republican party pretending to be the most ficaly sound. If that is so, then why does everyone (except the very wealthy americans) allways seem to do well when we have a democratic president, but everyone looses their jobs and is out of work when we have a Republican. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
