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DavePage
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0 posted 2004-11-23 06:52 PM


I’ve wanted to write something like this for ages.

Everyone talks about Globalisation but what he or she doesn’t talk about is that there will be no one left to buy in the countries outsourcing, since you have to earn money to buy and if you don’t earn, you don’t buy and as you outsource your jobs think of all those years ahead when your town doesn’t work anymore and there is nothing else you can do for the next 60 years.

People with work get a life, spending money and respect, and the countries concerned you have outsourced to, will make it damned difficult for you to get a job even if you could all move out there, whilst you have paid for their production, skills and power to develop.

Only Economists considered their theories to have importance; politicians consider life consists of one day and the rest of us, we just pay the costs and make theory have some meaning.

Dave

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The Mill
Hammers stopped one day at mill
Told it wasn’t enough
Paid nothing for work we did for us
Cheaper wasn’t enough

Romance by the factory wall
Wouldn’t be disturbed
By people going into work
Comments we never heard

Now my man works away
Pays for me it’s true
Why must he be uprooted?
How can this cost be true?

Businesses failing right and centre
Told it’s doing us good
How can I buy cheap goods?
When I cant afford the food

To feed us, keep us, care for us

Yes they talk of global
Yes their honesty
Ensures Economics
Starves the bread from me

When all this Global is complete
All those countries built
What apart from those too old, ill or just too beat
To pay for those cheap goods


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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
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1 posted 2004-11-23 07:15 PM


I love your view!
JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
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2 posted 2004-11-23 07:18 PM


"Businesses failing right and centre
Told it’s doing us good
How can I buy cheap goods?
When I cant afford the food"

Volumes in your writings!

You have a keen perspective, very interesting.

JL

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