I was watching a feature on NWI this morning

[Career Prole]

about India's economic renaissance, which is based largely on siphoning jobs from other countries. The reporter said there are 300 million people there who are living on less than a dollar a day.
Then they followed one of these guys to his new job at a credit card call center which used to be in the U.S.
They pay these guys 200$/month, and they've become "ravenous consumers" with all this newfound wealth.
Then they put one of the new Indian multi-millionaire outsourcing facilitators on to explain how outsourcing American jobs to India actually helps Americans.
These new Indian consumers, he explains, are spending in India but they're "buying cars, they're buying Levis, they're buying Nikes, they're buying Reeboks."
So...tell me how buying from companies who also no longer provide jobs for American workers helps us again? Oh yeah, I remember now...that helps us if we're sitting on our fat capitalist asses watching our portfolios grow instead of working for a living. It all comes back to me now.
Then the investment class gives more generous gratuities to the maitre d's, who give bigger tips to the shoeshine guys, who in turn tell the newstand guys to keep the nickel.
Tinkle down.
What a crock.
We workers had better unite...I don't know about other countries but the only way we could get those jobs back in the U.S. is to be willing to work for less than 200 bucks a month. I don't believe I could live on that.

[sandnsea]

1. Young people, listen up

You better start learning how to invest something, $5, something. The investor class and those who serve them, that will be America, like it or not.

[Career Prole]

2. You betcha, kids! That's why we push you so hard in school that you're

on psychotropics and antacids before you've even mastered long division. The middle class is on the way out...welcome to the new Middle Ages. You work from dawn to dusk, and the lords of the manor will provide bare subsistence and defense from the terra-ist hordes.

[Avalon Sparks]

3. But this is the part that confuses me...

How are they buying cars and Nike's on $200 a month?

[Career Prole]

4. Good point...maybe they get "Canadian Drug Prices" on everything. n/t