Outsourcing Is Bad

There are a number of companies that believe that Outsourcing is the key to profitability and the cure for all ills. If fact, the ideal goal would be to outsource all U.S. based jobs to countries with significantly lower wage rates. The logic would be that with no employees to pay, except for a privileged few, there would be nearly infinite profit.

But wait, with no employed U.S. citizens, who would have any money to buy their products, certainly not the people employed at their outsource locations as they are paid too low of a wage to afford what they make.

Think this is all a bad joke, take a look around your house and see how many item you own that are still made in the United States. Oh sure the name may be that of a company based here, but where is the item actual made?

For my money any company that outsourcers more than 50% of there product or gross earnings should not longer be considered U.S. based and therefore are subject to tariffs and other trade restrictions so as to truly level the playing field.

Outsourcing Is Good

I read a blog (shar131.blogspot.com) recently about a person who went through the same horrible experience I’ve had several times when calling Dell Technical Support and in all fairness, other companies for help.

I’m also aware that President Bush made a comment not so long ago about the outsourcing of jobs is good for the United States. Well Mr. President then I would suggest that you outsource your cabinet members, think of all the tax payer money you would save and you can simply place a telephone call or email for advice and receive something close to gibberish like the rest of us. Of course if they tell you there are still Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq (gibberish) you can always escalate the call priority and ask for their supervisor!

Red and Blue America

The meaning of a word changes

Over time the meaning of a word can change. I have always believed that translation of old documents can and do sometimes end up misinterpreted. The end result is that one little grain of mustard seed can sprout a lot of controversy. Don’t believe me, than take for example and old 1934 movie titled: ‘The gay divorcee’, the censors then objected to the word ‘Divorce’ and added and extra letter e at the end. Back then (only 71 years ago, imagine what several centuries can do to a word) gay meant happy or cheerful. Today a movie with that title would mean a completing different subject to most movie goers.

Now we arrive at Red and Blue America. During the election coverage the color red was used to indicate the state went Republican and blue was used for the Democrats. Let us go back about 25 years in time and place ourselves in a meeting being held by Red China’s chairman, the purpose to watch carefully the U.S. election results. The results are in and after seeing a sea of red states on the map of the U.S., one of the party members exclaims: Look at that, the whole country’s gone communist. At that time if you said to someone ‘he is a red’, it didn’t mean Republican.

As for me there are three colors on the U.S. flag, so next time I’ll vote White!

Tower of Bloggle

According to one web site there are in excess of 6 million blogs out there. Some simple math would show that if it took on average one minute for a person to read each blog, it would take more than 11 years to read the most recent entry of each blog. This assumes that language and lack of sleep is not a problem.

So if anyone reads this blog, I guess I’ll see you back in the next decade or so, then again maybe not!

Where’s The Beef

(or in this case the WMD)

Well the U.N. couldn’t find the Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Bush team couldn’t find them, so they tried again with the same results; NO WMD.

Now I think everyone knows about spent nuclear waste, nobody wants it in there back yard, the stuffs too hot. Nuclear energy plants, especially the older ones have at least one reactor that too hot (the radiation permeates the place until its longer safe to work inside).
So if there were any nuclear programs how did Iraq cleanup a site so there was no residual emissions to measure? Chemical weapons can be disposed of by incineration or other techniques but there always some measurable waste. Bio weapons, sure you could dispose of them by releasing the agent into the air or water but I think there would be a trail of death.

If you want to find WMD look no future than the U.S., some of our allies and some countries not considered allies. You can find more information about VX by searching GOOGLE using the key words “Material Safety Data Sheet -- Lethal Nerve Agent VX”.
The manufactures name on this data sheet: Department of the Army!
Or if you like search on “Radioactive Waste”.

So unless the Government releases some documents under the freedom of information act (without the blacked out sections) that proves to the contrary, which I doubt. Then what we should have done was to turn Iraq into another Cuba, an isolated nation.

FBI - The Virtual Case File

Well it hit the TV news today that the FBI's Virtual Case File project is in trouble again. Perhaps they should have consulted with Google on how to find information.

All Good Things (or bad)

The saying is that “All good things must come to and end”, but they must have a beginning also. Who is this poet anyway?