Thursday, August 27, 2015

How Many Pollocks Does It Take to Replace an American Worker?

Trick question. A pollock is either a marine fish or a famous dead painter. Granted, some might argue that they would still be fine replacements for their current bosses, lol. Sigh.

If you came here looking for an insensitive Polish joke, then you will be sorely disappointed. The joke is actually on us this time.

August 27, 2015
UPDATE 1-Goldman Sachs to hire several hundred people in Warsaw

The decision follows moves by Swiss banking giants UBS and Credit Suisse to expand their operation centres in Poland, seeking to benefit from the country's relatively inexpensive and skilled labour force.

November 9, 2009
Goldman Sachs’ Blankfein on Banking: ‘Doing God’s Work’

And God said unto him, seek the relatively inexpensive and skilled labor in faraway lands to make America great again.

Just as Greenspan once said that there can be no safe store of value in a welfare state, so too can there be no safe store of employment. First "they" came for our manufacturing jobs, and I did not speak out - because I was not a manufacturing employee. Then "they" came...

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