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szy8xj

Musings and Opinions #1

Aug 22, 2006 11:03

I returned from Washington DC last evening - I was videotaping a MS Excel class that I wrote - the government has bought it and wants it on tape so they can use it to train additional people. I previously presented it in person to about 180 people. I leave tomorrow evening for two more days of taping and should be done Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

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szy8xj August 22 2006, 15:46:01 UTC

And maybe gives them the opportunity to hone those skills, learn new ones, learn to work with others, and then move on to 'better' jobs.
Hurray - I've been 'squeed'! It is, however, not in my nature to return the favor!!!LOL

sunring August 22 2006, 16:54:06 UTC

Did Sarah tell you our printer/scanner/copier already came in handy? I used it to make copies of my IDs to send in with my student loan stuff. It rocks! Much thanks to you and Susan :)

I see your point about Walmart...people can always choose to shop elsewhere if they don't agree with it's policies, etc. I don't know much about the Walmart issue, though, so I'll spare you my uneducated opinions, lol.

szy8xj August 22 2006, 17:14:38 UTC

Glad it was a help to you!

I welcome all opinions - educated and otherwise. Sometimes the best ones ARE the 'uneducated' ones! I'd be missing out on a lot if I restricted the opinions and ideas I listen to and consider.

ess_dog August 23 2006, 01:13:40 UTC

Too big becomes pretty easy to determine when you live in a community where Wal-Mart's predatory pricing and location choice put all of the mom and pop shops in town out of business, and then when Wal-Mart itself pulls up stakes, leaving behind a big empty box store and forcing all the town's residents to have to schlep one or two towns over to the nearest shopping: another damn Wal-Mart. There are thousands of these dead Wal-Marts littering America, all designed for kamikaze missions against the competition ( ... )

szy8xj August 23 2006, 03:23:08 UTC

Research shows a few hundred, not 'thousands' of dead Wal-Marts across the country and in many of those cases, Wal-Mart relocated to another part of the same town to build another store - they abandoned a smaller store ( ... )

ess_dog August 23 2006, 03:56:58 UTC

It could easily be much more than 20 years before the global system stabilizes, and Wal-Mart plays a decidedly destabilizing force. Obviously, American workers whose paychecks are being squeezed are going to seek lower prices. It's basic supply side economics. The problem is that supply side economics doesn't spur production like demand side economics (the greater problem is that it takes the socialists to point out to the capitalists that Keynes is still relevant!). Someone's got to buy all this shit we produce, and the shrinking wallets and increasing consumer debt load of Americans might one day break the backs of the American consumers (and our real value to global capitalism in at this stage, sadly, is our role as consumers) who are all that is holding up this house of cards. Nevermind that if production is to catch up to labor supply, we're going to have to turn all those Indian and Chinese workers into consumers as well, or else face half a century of drastic boom-and-bust cycles, global unrest and occasional bloody ( ... )

szy8xj August 23 2006, 10:21:59 UTC

I'll tell my brother and a few of my close friends/business associates that they are liars and didn't really see what they saw, blow out one of the candles in front of the Sam Walton picture I have in my office, and find another corporate devil to send part of my money to - maybe the RNC. ;)