From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 30 2002 - 18:54:42 MDT
In a message dated 8/30/2002 7:26:48 PM Central Standard Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes: This isn't even worth a reply. I do not believe
that a majority of laid off American steel workers have turned to selling
drugs to earn a living
And I won't argue with you either. When I got assignments in the Chicago
area I saw what I saw. But where are those steel workers working now to make
the money they made the money they made before. I thought I mentioned that
many of the workers had an alternative to illegal activity, some go onto
relief, some go to the penitentiary because they got caught in illegal
activity, some go to flipping hamburgers, and others find jobs inferior to
what they had before.
However, my main concern is with the poor family supporting men that I
saw trying to hang onto a job that at least supported his family in poverty
while an illegal was under cutting the little wage he was making. I worked
with poor but honest men of all races and creeds living in the slums of
Chicago that were being displaced. I also put out enough mailers for
consulting work in manufacturing over a ten year period to see the jobs
disappear. Just before I retired I counted my target firms in my selected
marketing area. I once had 540 potential customers employing over 200 people
-- that was 1988 or 9. By the late 90s I had lost 25% of those potential
customers. The ones left were laying off all staff except those necessary
for day to day work. All through the decade of the nineties I was seeing
efficiency deteriorate drastically.
I personally will not call any man names for marketing a foreign
product if that is what he has to do to feed his family nor will I question
him if he fastens onto some statistics that tend to make him feel better
about economic trends and his place in them. But, come out into nitty gritty
manufacturing and that man will find a different story.
Respectfully,
Ron h.
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