[Vision2020] Wal-Mart

[Scott Dredge]

Joan,

Exporting jobs commonplace nowadays.  Manufacturing,
accounting, customer support, medical procedures, etc.

Even high tech design jobs are heading oversees.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13333345.htm
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13330798.htm

A job at Wal*mart may be one of the few career options
remaining once we've offshored everything that can be
reasonably offshored.

-Scott

--- Joan Opyr <joanopyr at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> PS: I see that Ford Motor Company is following GM's
> lead.  Today, they 
> announced a massive series of factory closures. 
> Good-bye, 
> manufacturing jobs; hello low-wage, low-benefit
> service industry work.  
> But for how long?  I have yet to speak to a customer
> call center in the 
> past 18 months that was located inside the United
> States.  I find this 
> frustrating, annoying, and sad.  Most of us are only
> one decent, 
> benefits-paying job away from living a second-class
> life.  If you have 
> health care, picture yourself without it.  If you've
> got retirement 
> benefits, kiss those good-bye.  Now, take your
> living wage job and 
> imagine that you work 40 hours per week at minimum
> wage.  Where can you 
> afford to live in Moscow?  Can you pay your rent? 
> Your mortgage?  Your 
> car payment?  Your gas, heat, electric and phone? 
> It takes only one 
> Boeing lay-off to knock and upwardly mobile engineer
> on his ass.  Or, 
> to bring this closer to home, a few more cuts at the
> University of 
> Idaho . . .
>