A more biased and forced-answer “poll” in my life.
The thing is, it makes me wonder if this is how polls are worded for those stupid “Gallup” and “CNN” and what-the-fuck-ever polls that tell us who we apparently are supposed to like.
Bush is a lying sack of shit.
Kerry is a lying sack of shit.
Nader is too stupid to even figure out where the white house IS.
What does that leave us with?
LOL. *pats you on the head*
Start a political career. That’s really the problem with ‘politics’. It’s the act of trying to get people to vote on a matter. Which basically means that you’re trying to get the majority of the people to vote something in that a minority of the people wouldn’t really want. Which of course causes discontent.
Take this for example, Tech Support outsourcing to India. If you put tarriffs on the export of the service… you cause businesses that use it to come to grief. They become less competitive and money used to fund them would shunt to other avenues or just become saved. This means fewer jobs for America because– face it. They might outsource but they’re still hiring some Americans to handle their American interests. Be it accountants, advertisers, etc.
Yet if you don’t, techies get mad that they’re losing all their jobs to India. And never mind you try to tell them that the companies would become less competitive and go out of business. They look in terms of accounting profits (which are huge sometimes millions or billions of dollars) instead of economic profits (which are small and itsy which basically is factoring out opportunity costs, etc).
So you a simple task for you is to figure out how to tell your constituency that long run forecasting indicates that outsourcing to India will make American citizens better off as a whole. Because Techies know that it’s not true for them as individuals. (fallacy of composition. What is good for the individual is good for the whole, what is good for the whole is good for the individual– this is false).
That my friends is politics. How tell people that can’t feed their families that there would be other families that couldn’t feed their families and that they’re stunting US growth by being outraged about outsourcing to India. And that’s just one of the EASY issues.
shooman out
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