Our government has mortaged

Posted By: TT112 on 2008-02-17
In Reply to: It may soon be the other way around. China has bailed - out US in recent months.

our souls. Once the amnesty for ILLEGAL aliens is a done deal and it will be...what will we be American-Mexicans? Then along will come China and foreclose on their mortgage, then what?

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spaces - Lee
- Spaces, etc - TT112
  - TT112 - Lee
    - Your post has brightened my day - TT112
    - IMO, will always be a niche for us, but MT is victim - of growing world economy. Govmt doing nil to help.
      - Oh my - TT112
        Time long gone when we could be separatists. - World too small now, have to deal with all countri
        But that does not mean that we have to --sm - anon
        Competition is the Name of the Game! - Ed
        India has one of the largest growing economies in - the world. Growing middle class.
        While the American middle class is shrinking every day. - TT112
        It may soon be the other way around. China has bailed - out US in recent months.
        Our government has mortaged - TT112
        Only one Thing Left to Do... - Ed
        ah..the devil's doorway..sm - anon
        Exactly. Why can't the masses see this coming? S/M - TT112
        3rd world things they are working for what we have, - literally. nm
        Things = think - nm
        Politicians get money for selling us down river. How - do you propose to stop them?
        stop giving politicians money to sell us down river..nm - anon
        Simplistic answer. I dont personally give $. What - else do you propose? Realistically. nm
        yes you do..it is called taxes...sm - anon
        Your opinion we stop paying taxes, buying - commodities? As said, simplistic answer. U go 1st.
        You misinterpret what was said, twist words--sm - anon
        If I knew the answer, I could rule the world. Too - busy making a living to figure it out. nm
        and when you can't make a living anymore--sm - anon
        Guess then I will have to learn Farsi. - nm
        Doesn't seem like politics to me s/m - TT112
        I agree but how do you propose to stop slide down - hill. That is why I said govn doing nothing to hel
        Unfortunately - TT112
- Actually, with computers, it's a standard to only - use one space at end of sentence.
  - Dont care about desktop publishing, not what I do. I - transcribe & need every cent co tries to take away
    - me too!! Must be MTSO above..nm - anon
      - That's standard for all word processing, not just - desktop publishing. Has been for years. sm
        That's not true. - been doing this a long, long time
        YES, it is. It's in the BOS. Google it. - It's very much true. sm
        So? BOS is just book by ladies with too much free - time. It was not written by GOD. I could care less
        LOL. I actually agree about BOS. Just putting it out - there for info. sm
        If every keystroke is counted, how could it not - make a difference? Please explain. nm
        If MTSO does want 1 space its because that 1 - space x many MTs adds up quick enough. nm
        Have you compared line counts with 1 space vs. 2? - What's difference in lines on same report?
        Doesnt matter. Not much from one MT but X many - MTs, MTSO gets much money that belongs to MTs.
        Wouldn't matter if they had a million MTs. - There's no change in the total. nm
        If every keystroke is counted, how could it not - matter? nm
- I think one of my companies has a macro sm - shipaddict
  - Few cents here, few cents there stolen from you by - company, soon adds up to $ stolen from you. nm
    - Do 1 space and count lines and then do 2 - and count lines. sm
      - Why do AAMT have hand on MY check? Dont work - for them. Drs happy,they have final say anyway.
        Do = does. & most drs. dont know and could care - less about AAMT. Same with BOS. nm
        How many AAMT execs silent partners/on boards/ - owners of MT co? Explains selling us down river.
  - Those spaces are called--sm - anon
    - spaces - Lee
      - Excellent points. I totally agree. - nm
  - spaces - Lee

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Why the government doesn't come down on them...sm
Because the government, which was formerly assumed to be the people of the United States, but is now Corporate America only, doesn't have a stake in us, only big business. It is for this same reason that they allow illegal aliens to work all over America without consequnce to the employers who hire them. They make more than they would in their home countries, and a whole lot less than they should in the U.S., but companies want cheap labor and the US Dept. of Labor is there to help them get it. We who sell ourselves in the once respected MT profession for too little wages, at too long hours, without defending our rights to overtime and a fair wage, have just made the sacrifices of so many people who fought and died for those rights, martyrs to a lost cause. Shame on us. I don't work for Food, or Insurance, I work for a decent living wage, and if I can't make it working for one of these Nationial MT Sweat Shops, I quit. I don't blame myself because I know what I am capable of. I have had terrible sound quality, stupid and slow work platforms, unresponsive supervisors, account switching up to 4 in one day, nit-picking QA that I have had to prove wrong (and did) to keep my QA at 100%, and no pay for problems that were their fault. I quit them all. Although I may be Peeing in the wind, I will continue to uphold my standards, and make them uphold the Labor Laws of America. PTC I think we would all be better off it the likes of the poster below who said they did not want overtime because the government just took in taxes would leave the profession. It is hard to believe someone could be so stupid, and if they are truly an MT, then I would be ashamed to be seen with them. I would stake my life on the fact that this poster is a female, because men are not so foolish as to think that after the government takes out their 30% to 40%, the remaining 60-70% isn't worth having. Give me a break!!!

You can get a government grant to pay for
retraining if you lose your job to offshoring. You do not pay grants back.

You can then take a correspondence course from AHIMA for coding for $1500-$2000 plus books, and then take the certification test for around $300. Pay and demand for those jobs are much better, and most of the time they are in-house.

Who do you think controls our government?
this is not a personal attack but I never cease to be amazed at how few Americans CONNECT THE DOTS (all the way anyway)

The corporations call the shots with YOUR Congress/government primarily because AMERICANS are so easily pacified and distracted by the toys these corporations made for that exact purpose.

God-forbid Americans paid (payed?) any real attention to what the government does with THEIR tax dollar and in THEIR good names...

if you think the CORPORATE media is going to educate you on this, well ive got some swamp land you might be interested in...

I never heard about that one. If the government
wants to make it madatory, then they have to make financial contributions.
No, I do not think that they will make it mandatory!

That's so illegal. I wish the government would come down on these companies. nm
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Go to your state government web site
and review the guidelines for collecting unemployment. If you quit for a legitimate reason, some states will cover you. I also wouldn't worry about the reference if it didn't work out. Just put them behind you and find something else. Good luck to you.

Always the government's fault. It has nothing to do with the fact
that 3rd world MTs can work for 3 cpl? You said it yourself. It's corporate greed and they can save a lot of money if they only have to pay ICs 3 cpl even if they didn't get tax cuts. I don't think outsourcing just started when Bush got elected and I don't think it will stop once he's out of office and the directives change.

That is what happens when corporations rule our government. sm
In a global economy, quality of life will have to readjust to the lowest common denominator because there are always third world countries that will do it cheaper.

Welcome to the New World Order that Bush told us about!

Go to your state's government website, look for SM
the link to the Treasury Dept (or whatever the place you pay state tax to is called) and there should be the info you're looking for there.

If our government TAXED them appropriately -
so that the profit margin for offshoring work was LESS than keeping it in the US, instead of REWARDING them by giving them TAX BREAKS for offshoring, it would probably move back onshore again. But they're not gonna do it without being forced to. And the government won't force them to do it unless we let our elected official know that US citizens want their jobs back in this country, and if they don't start working towards that end, then we'll vote them out of THEIR jobs.

No, soon the government will increase the minimum wage
and MTs will be the working poor. Sad business this is.

It's only censorship when the government does it, not private individuals..nm
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just so you know, the government has a free credit report per year
lots of experts say get 1 free credit report from Equifax in January, get 1 free credit report from next biggie 4 months later, and then get 1 free credit report from the other big one 4 months after that - that way you are monitoring all 3 big credit co per year. Forgot the website but do a search - why pay for something the government (and your taxes) gives you for free.

Until OUR government quits making it so lucratime tax wise to outsource...
these companies get great tax breaks to outsource. Google it, it will amaze you.

It still goes back to our government making it lucrative tax wise to outsource
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News report government hiring 1000 people - sm
To work on cybersecurity. I wonder if they will address the use of widespread databases like some (they shall remain nameless lest this post get booted) VR vendors use. I hope so. I think I'm going to ask for all the names and addresses who have access to my medical record from my local hospital and see what they tell me.