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RE: Re: Frequent Requests for Routine Mapping Help
I have been watching this for a while and would like to add my $.02.
I understand the emotions being expressed. I am old enough to have seen the
same emotions in the 70's and 80's with Steel and rubber and auto.
Economies and industries evolve. Protectionism NEVER works. We cannot
legislate making a process less expensive. We tried steel tariffs recently.
For every job that was saved by these tariffs 1 1/2 - 2 (statistically) were
lost in the manufacturing sector. By the way manufacturing in this country
is not gone. It is in different forms but it is not gone.
If you want to escalate the flow of jobs out of this country simply keep
pushing for protectionist measures. The job of any business is to make
their product or service the most efficiently it can. Unfortunately
sometimes that has bad consequences. The good side of that is that this
causes innovation and sometimes causes people to create new businesses, and
yes jobs.
We don't use buggy whips, street cars, typewriters and hundreds of other
things. All of those changes caused loss of jobs. We in the IT industry
largely have jobs today because of these changes. We automate formerly
manual processes. True that is a different form of job loss than what is
being discussed here, but it is relevant that the drive for efficiency
causes things to change.
When you trade freedom for security you end up with neither.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dubost, Mike [mailto:
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:05 PM
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Subject: FW: [EDI-L] Re: Frequent Requests for Routine Mapping Help
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