Word: cheaping
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...have a modest suggestion for how to end France's impasse over youth job contracts: the French government should pay for a group of student leaders to spend a couple of weeks in Yekaterinburg. It wouldn't cost much, since there's now a cheap direct flight to and from Paris operated by Ural Airlines (slogan: your dreams. our wings.) Yekaterinburg is Russia's fifth largest city, about the size of Marseilles and Lyons combined. Assuming the French students have an open mind, they should be astonished, unsettled and perhaps a little ashamed of what they find there. The under...
...youth in the banlieues who really deserve jobs. It's too late to ask whether globalization is good for us or bad for us-it's here. I go to China, I buy products, and come back and sell them here. People are happy to buy because it is cheap. And that's because it comes from a country where people work 70 hours a week. But everybody in France wants to work for the state, they want to be functionaries, to have stability, work 35 hours a week, and not have much pressure. I think that is finished...
...find it difficult to deny any human being the right to work relentlessly for the opportunity—not a handout; just a chance—to enjoy some of the prosperity that most Americans take for granted. On the other hand, I recognize that the availability of cheap immigrant labor lowers wages for some of America’s poorest citizens. The assertion that immigrants only take the jobs Americans are too proud to do is both xenophobic and false. Immigrants take the jobs that Americans won’t do for low wages. If immigration stopped, the grapes...
...problem. Soon enough, though, you might end up with a Blu-ray or even HD DVD burner - one that will let you record true high-definition content onto a shiny silver disc. Sure, it?s cool, but in the first couple of years, none of that stuff will come cheap...
...possibly in the history of the Republican Party, which helps explain why the politics of immigration is becoming so tricky for the G.O.P. The business interests in the party base don't want to disrupt a steady supply of cheap labor for the agriculture, construction, hotel and restaurant industries, among others. That's why business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12 to 6 to send its bill to the Senate floor, with four of the committee's 10 Republicans joining all its Democrats in favor. So doubtful...