[PEN-L:6804] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: una preguntita

[Tom Lehman <uswa12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, they sure do---and I really don't care how it's phrased.  Vernacular is
vernacular.  And I'm sure your an expert on Detroit vernacular. ;o)

I read super market tabloids and enjoy urban legends, too.

Your email pal,

Tom L.



Charles Brown wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Don't you think most politicians need a lot of political correction ?
>
> Charles
>
> >>> Tom Lehman <uswa12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/13/99 04:04PM >>>
> Well, Jim, if it's controls on capital flows. And you can combine that with an
> effort to educate and legislate controls right into the corporate charters of
> all corporations foreign, domestic and alien. Then you might have a chance of a
> "better" globalization.
>
> What we do here sets the standard for the rest of the world!
>
> On the subject of youth.  It's sort of like the Canadian Steelworker told Doug
> Henwood's reporter, welcome to the wonderful world of minimum wage or something
> like that.  Until people start demanding change and I mean demanding it from
> the politicians nothing is going to change.  People are going to have to
> button-hole politicians of all parties from the local hack to as high as they
> can reach if they want real change---up close and very personal and not
> necessarily politically correct.
>
> Your email pal,
>
> Tom L.
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Tom Lehman wrote:
> > >>>>
> > For the big industrial unions like the Steelworkers, which is a pretty
> > diverse if not the most diverse union, the losses in jobs resulting from
> > downsizing, globalization etc. have been particularly cruel to our Black
> > membership.  Because they and their children will never see union protected
> > jobs again in the so-called brownfields areas. Good jobs to which they
> > have had easy access.
> > <<<<
> >
> > right: downsizing (broadly defined) hits the "last hired" (those with the
> > least seniority) hardest. One of the reasons for increased inequality among
> > wage earners is that there is a shrinking of the sector of the working
> > class that is able to benefit from "good jobs" (the primary labor market
> > jobs) so that more and more workers, including younger white workers, are
> > crowded in the secondary labor markets.
> >
> > >>>>
> > The whole question is where do you draw the line on globalization, and how
> > do you combat globalization?
> > <<<<
> >
> > I think a better question is how can we create a _better_ globalization
> > rather than trying strategies that dump the costs on other nations' working
> > classes via protectionism and the like?
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> > http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
> > Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia!