Generic Outsourcing/Economy/Unemployment Thread, With Greek Chorus:
eponymous: I’ve been wondering if the job losses we’re suffering might, maybe, be permanent? Sam Stone: Don’t be silly. All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. pantom: I think he’s in shock. Doesn’t he know we’re all doomed? Aeschines: DOOMED! iamme99: Doomed… kimstu: Long, complicated, sensible post from a left-wing POV. eponymous: Long, complicated, sensible post from a middle of the road POV. pervert: Long, complicated, sensible post from a right-wing POV. js_africanus: Attempts to explain free trade from a strictly economic POV. pantom: Hmm. Still, I think we’re doomed… Aeschines: DOOMED! iamme99: Doomed… Spectre of Pithecanthropus: How could outsourcing possibly make us stronger? Sam Stone: Bah! You’ve all fallen for DNC agitprop! Don’t you know this is the best of all possible worlds? John Mace: Keep the government out! Susanann: Immigrants are taking all our jobs! We’re Doomed! iamme99: DOOMED! pantom: Doomed… msmith537: If they can do the work cheaper, then they should. John Mace: Absitively. Susanann: But we’ll all starve. MrVisible: It’s the after effects of the bubble. manhattan: That’s exactly right. All will be better soon. kimstu: Long, complicated, sensible post from a left-wing POV. eponymous: Long, complicated, sensible post from a middle of the road POV. Sam Stone: Long, complicated, sensible post from a right-wing POV. js_africanus: Attempts to explain free trade from a strictly economic POV. pervert: Objects to a point in js_africanus’ post. Rashak_Mani: Training is the answer. pleonast: That’s right. pantom: Training is the answer to a glut of well-trained knowledge workers? MrVisible: I’m putting away for a rainy day, because… Aeschines: We’re doomed! iamme99: DOOMED! susanann: Doomed… Sam Stone: It’s all for the best. On average, things are just fine. John Mace: Historically, a perfectly normal time. kimstu: Long, complicated, sensible post from a left-wing POV. eponymous: Long, complicated, sensible post from a middle of the road POV. Sam Stone: Long, complicated, sensible post from a right-wing POV. js_africanus: Attempts to explain free trade from a strictly economic POV. Reeder: It’s all Bush’s fault anyway. iamme99: We’re doomed! pantom: DOOMED! susanann: Doomed… Chicago Faucet: In the long run, we’re all dead you know. netscape 6: BUT!..
I think the OP belongs in the referenced thread(s) to serve as a sort of Cliffs Notes for the Dopers who will otherwise go crazy reading them. LOL here too, pantom, nice job.
::Takes a bow.:: Thanks, my very first attempt at a bit of satire on these boards. Chicago Faucet: I thought you were being optimistic. (Warped sense of optimism on my part? Hmm…) Made a good punch line, anyway.
Oh, you forgot the part where everyone else abandons the thread except for jshore and pervert, who spend days arguing about the meaning of some particular word or other.
Glad I got my comments in on this thread before it gets closed…
Ok, I had not made the connection with that Fed Ex commercial. If you read the OP with the tones of voice used in the commercial, it is even funnier.
Thanks again, pantom. It made my day.
<I suppose I should say the my first reaction was one of “Huff! You labeled every liberal rant as sensible but did not do so to every conservative rant!”. But then I thought that this reaction was funny, and then realized that the OP was even funnier. Is it funny when you realize that you have been whoosed? Maybe I’m silly.>
pervert: Made me go back and check. I did indeed label the right-wing side as sensible, if you go back and check. Only poor js_africanus didn’t make the sensible cut, which is kind of, well, not right.
Sorry, I know you did. I didn’t mean to suggest that you were being biased.
I was only saying that I overreacted that way for a second. Notice that Sam’s posts are not all labeled sensible, while kimstu’s are, for instance. You have to be a rabid un-liberal, I suppose to see it the way I did. And as soon as I realized that my biases were showing, I took another look and realized that you were kidding around and had completely whoosed me. I suppose you had to be here…
I’m still laughing BTW. The “Doomed…” from the background is throwing me into fits right now.
