[OT] Re: This list is so Garrulous

[Yu Meng Chong]

> [All our Widget Wrapper jobs moved to the Far East

Well, they haven't moved here. Unemployment here and in Hong Kong seems pretty bad. A lot of my friends are out of work and they were all in IT previously. It affects the middle-aged (people over 35) worse, and employers prefer young and pretty to old and experienced. I'm a self-employed contractor now, so this ridiculous prejudice doesn't hurt me.

> Congress is
> dis-functional and wholly owned by trans-national corporations. 

I read somewhere a long time ago that this is how representative government (whether western or eastern-style democracy) always ends up, with power concentrated in special interest groups. Of course, dictatorships and other government systems have a whole different set of problems.

> However, the tide may have turned economically, as job losses were
> minimal
> in spite of the terrible weather in the east.]

Yeah, I heard about the weather. Terrible! Bring some of the cold temperatures here -- we need it because we're in a heat wave here. 

pascal chong