Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wanting More H-1B Workers?

Re:Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wantin... by aaronblohowiak on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:25PM (#451185)

Globalization will make America more like the rest of the world -- with a very wealthy elite and terminally poor servant class with low class mobility. I appreciate economic freedom within the borders, but only because of the safeguards and investments we have made and will continue to make.

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Re:Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wantin... by KWD on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @11:05AM (#452282)

I'd say we're already there, and have never really left it. In my opinion. the noble/serf arrangement has always been in place in America.

I did a bike ride across the country about 10 years ago, and it was eye opening. Much different than what I saw everyday in Orange County, CA. It's easy to keep the blinders on in our everyday lives.

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Re:Senator To Microsoft: What Was That You Said About Wantin... by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @12:10PM (#452381)

No slums like bombay or Sao Palo or mexico city. Thankfully, our poor (even our rural poor) are spared the intense and catastrophic destitution of such places. America is not a classless society, but we have maintained a large and healthy middl class (that is less true now than it once was,) and as previously mentioned, our poor are better off than their counterparts around the world.

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