<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:51 AM, Ed Gould wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On Jan 16, 2008, at 8:37 PM, <a href="mailto:Technophobic_Tom@comcast.net">Technophobic_Tom@comcast.net</a> wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ed wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tom wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wow, that's a thousand slides scanned</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for less than the cost of a scanner!</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Yes, but read it closely. They send the slides to India. That means less jobs here. Cheap may be OK in some cases but don't forget to factor in the loss of jobs here. That leads to escalation of higher taxes and other unneeded people out of work conditions.</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It's a myth. The world economy is a closed system. What is India going to do with dollar bills? They could always use them to cushion their mattresses but ultimately they must submit them to purchase U.S. goods. So you either mix photo chemicals or build weapons. Besides the scanner won't be made by U.S. labor either.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tell that tio the unemployed thousands that used to have jobs here and now the company employees people ov er in Inda. The people left here cannot find work except at a fast food restaurant.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Is working in a restaurant such a big step down from standing in front of a scanner feeding slides? Even so, I can't believe that there are really thousands of Americans who planned to make a career out of scanning film and then lost their jobs to India. </div></body></html>