Day 146 - 2010

Feel much better today, I don’t know what hit me yesterday. The headache was just  unbearable. Today the sun is out, it is warm and the temperatures are supposed to climb up to the nineties tomorrow.

Try this out, back to affiliate marketing The Stepping Stone is the first try – again. Just tried it and is not up yet. I will write about it once they are publishing it.

A side BTW: check out this one about Venus Williams in France – I have no words at the moment. I guess if this was an European player playing in the US they would be outraged here. What is this saying about the US athletes?

Enough said, GAMES tonight. Little one at 6PM and the big sis at 7:45PM. BTW, she made the PRIDE team, more as the seasons opens.

BTW

something about sweat shops As reported by BBC  there is a spate of suicides within the workers of the Foxconn manufacturer’s campus in Shenzhen, China. Foxconn is part of Hon Hai Precision, the world’s largest maker of consumer electronics. The iPhone is one of the products they assemble at the plant, Dell and HP are getting their products from the same manufacturer. This is apparently a $40 Billion industry – OVERSEAS. WHY CAN WE NOT HAVE THE MANUFACTURING IN THE US? Yes, I know, non existing wages and cheap, never ending supply of cheap labor and no benefits. Isn’t it time to look at that? Do we have to throw out the money we could have within the US? The unemployment rate is at 10% despite the fact that there were 290,000 jobs added during the last couple of month. With a population of 309,357,723 (as of 5/26/2010) in the US, 290,000 is next to nothing in the overall scheme of things. There is a net gain of one person every 12 seconds (one birth every 7 sec, one death every 13 sec, international migrant every 37 sec). Yes, if you are one of the 290,000 who are employed now it is great.  Given 10% of unemployment that is a whopping 30,935,772 people still out of work (me included). So what if we would build this factory somewhere where there is space (plenty of it there), like Safeway with its central hubs, and get workers there? Huge undertaking, housing, logistics etc – I know that, it should have started ten or twenty years ago by somebody. China build several communities around plants, why can’t we do that efficiently? The question to ask is “isn’t a penny in the hand more worth than a bird in the sky?” (alright it is a translation thing). The point is more that we are giving away too much because we are asking too much. That is from a country where all the woman are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above average (Garrison Keillor)