Bush's Treasury Sec - outsourcing makes the economy stronger...WTF?

[cthrumatrix]

Kerry Takes Outsourcing Attack to N.C.


By MARY DALRYMPLE, Associated Press Writer

GREENSBORO, N.C. - John Kerry (news - web sites) is promising North Carolina workers he will fight the forces sending U.S. jobs overseas, a timely topic in a state losing jobs to the manufacturing slump and international competition.

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Treasury Secretary John Snow has said job outsourcing is an aspect of trade that "makes the economy stronger."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040907/ap_on_el_pr/kerry&cid=536&ncid=536

Are these people nuts...up is down..white is black!

[Union Thug]

1. Depends on what you mean by stronger...

The outsource economy is great for the business class. The savings keeps 'em in yachts and bentleys. However, for the working people, it's a disaster.

You can have a top down, elite/thrall economy that works. The question is, do we really want our system to work that way?

[havocmom]

2. No jobs = no payroll taxes. How does that help?

Companies outsourcing and also having sham headquarters (about the size of a PO Box) offshore = no corporate taxes paid. How does that help?

Oh, the economy isn't ours, it's theirs... Never mind, I get it.

Dear America, you have been invaded and occupied by a power other than that your Constitution proscribed. The take-over of your government by corporate interests constitutes fascism. Time to stop beileving everything the talking heads tell you. Throw the bums in Congress out. They let the CEOs write the laws and that means everything they wanna do becomes legal.

Throw the bums in Congress OUT

[cthrumatrix]

4. good point... this is pure corporatism and wealth transfer

wait til the medicare debates start...seniors are leary of shrub

[Triana]

3. Outsourcing of Computer/IT Workers in the USA - THE TRUTH...

http://www.austintek.com/outsourcing

This is an entire PRINTABLE paper on the subject of outsourcing (Computer/IT workers, at least) with table of contents and statistics.

I saw Mr. Mack do a presentation on this and the research he's done TOTALLY DEBUNKS the government and the corprat's claims that outsourcing is "good" for the US job market AND it debunks the EXCUSES they use to do it (ie: Americans don't have the skills, and other bullshit LIES corprats use to get cheap labour from abroad.)

If Americans don't have the SKILLS - then why are being forced to TRAIN our foreign (read: CHEAP LABOR) replacements if we don't have the SKILLS to do the job ourselves?. Yeap. That's just one example of why this crap doesn't wash.

Pass it on...

[cthrumatrix]

5. but but Elaine Cho is a christian.....she can't lie ...right?

[Kierkegaard]

6. Traditional Repig rhetoric

Logic: "2 + 2 = 4."

Repig: "No it doesn't"

They will attempt to muddy the water, no matter how ridiculous the concept, by countering any opposition assertions with infantile retorts. What's puzzling is that they are rarely called on the carpet. When they are pressed for an explanation, it always seems to be some dizzying stretch of reality or common sense, conveniently ignoring the facts.