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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 12:58 PM
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Great news for outsourced workers. New high paying jobs pooping up.
Just become a pooper scooper. Now don't tell Bushit's Dept Of Labor about this, or they might revise unemployment figures down to record low levels as millions of outsourced workers join the pooper scooping industry.

Upstate New York man gets the poop on outsourcing
Sat April 30, 2005 1:19 AM GMT+05:30

By Holly McKenna

DELMAR, N.Y. (Reuters) - Computer programmer Steve Relles has the poop on what to do when your job is outsourced to India.

Relles, one of a rising number of Americans seeking new opportunities as their work shifts to countries with cheaper labor, has spent the past year making his living scooping up dog droppings as the "Delmar Dog Butler."

"My parents paid for me to get a (degree) in math and now I am a pooper scooper," Relles, a 42-year-old married father of two told Reuters. "I can clean four to five yards in a hour if they are close together."

Relles, who lost his computer programming job about three years ago, got the idea of cleaning dog dirt from people's back yards from Mark Booth, a friend in Buffalo, New York.

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http://www.tradealert.us/news_item.asp?NID=1515856
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brokensymmetry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:00 PM
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1. Isn't the chimpster's economy great?
We can now aspire to being a pooper scooper! :mad:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:01 PM
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2. It's your own damn fault for not having been born rich, dude.
Deal with it.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:03 PM
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3. Oh Sh**!
I'm sorry, I couldn't resist.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:04 PM
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4. "How uniquely American"
Edited on Sat Apr-30-05 01:05 PM by librechik
in Germany people leave the poop and anti-American activists stick toothpick sized US flags in the piles.

Either way we get the poop.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:05 PM
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5. The new Gilded Age.
All of the owners of the ownership society will require lots of servants to maintain their lifestyle.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:05 PM
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6. And people say that there are way too many jobs that
Americans "just aren't willing to do" -yeah right. :eyes:

When you have no money coming in and zero prospects-even the most disgusting job looks good.
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:07 PM
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7. Bush's plop down economics
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DulceDecorum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:17 PM
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8. A growing field: India is outsourcing to the US
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BringEmOn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:18 PM
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9. Holy shit!!!!
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LdyGuique Donating Member (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:21 PM
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10. This is not only bullshit but heifershit . . .
Don't they have any need for manure for their own fields? I know that we have plenty of manure to spread around -- Texan corral dust hasn't abated yet.
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flamin lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:26 PM
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13. We give them jobs and they give us shit for it????
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delete_bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 02:01 PM
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15. their poop is better than our poop!
"In fact, chemical analysis reveals that the dung of the Indian cow scores over the US version by way of organic content. Not surprisingly, we have received numerous enquiries from the US."
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:24 PM
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11. We will all be scooping the shit soon
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flamin lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:24 PM
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12. Economy goes from in the red to dark brown . . .
Does this mean that Trickle down economics has become Poop down economics?

Dare I say that the economy is in the $#!tter?

Could it be that the job market has gone to the dogs?

Is it possible that the employment outlook stinks?


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bush_is_wacko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-30-05 01:37 PM
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14. What we really need is bushit scooper's!
This should pay commiserate with the CEO position of any industry. Bushit scooper's should possess strong stomachs because bushit stinks more than any byproduct known to man! they should also posses a strong sense of duty to country in order to be able to endure the battles that will inevitably come about as they attempt to regurgitate bushit for the sheeple so they can understand the TRUE meaning behind it!

Newspapers should start running complete full front page ads for this position any day now, right?

I KNOW I need to live in fantasyland every now and then to stay sane!
:crazy: :tinfoilhat:
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