Worried About Jobs Being Outsourced?
Well, here’s one way to solve the problem of the depressing numbers of US jobs that are lost to overseas competitors.
Close down the office that tracks the statistics:
President Obama’s budget would eliminate the International Labor Comparisons office and transfer its 16 economists to expand the bureau’s work tracking inflation and occupational trends. The White House says the cut, estimated to save $2 million, is one of many difficult decisions the president was forced to make to control spending.
It sure is hard not to be cynical about this. In fact, it’s impossible not to be. Obama has called for NAFTA style trade agreements expanding into Panama, Columbia, and South Korea. These sorts of trade agreements have proven deadly for US workers. But, hey, if they close down the office that tracks the data – we’ll never know just how deadly.
In related news, a small group of legislators have filed a bill that would cause the US to withdraw from NAFTA.
The bill spearheaded by Rep. Gene Taylor, a Mississippi Democrat, would require President Barack Obama to give Mexico and Canada six months notice that the United States will no longer be part of the 16-year-old trade pact.
“At a time when 10 to 12 percent of the American people are unemployed, I think Congress has an obligation to put people back to work,” Taylor said.
He argued NAFTA has cost the United States millions of manufacturing jobs and hurt national security by encouraging companies to move production to Mexico.
The high unemployment rate makes it the “perfect” time to push for repeal even though past efforts have failed, he said.
It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere.
Tags: Jobs, outsourcing
We need to create a petition regarding NAFTA, tell congress to STOP letting jobs leave America, no more Tax breaks or incentives for these companies, Tax penalties should be imposed.
The job situation in this country will continue to get worse if jobs keep moving out of America
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I, for one, plan to take the drastic step of not voting for incumbents next time around. (I am an Independant). The incumbent politicians have been unable to resolve any of the most critical issues facing this country. Namely, immigration control, failure of the banking system and stock market, massive outsourcing of jobs and factories, health care, unemployment, massive trade deficit, collapse of our infrastructure including our educational system, local and state governments. The incumbents need to be fired and replaced by middle class citizens not obligated to the New World Order power cabal. If you think it doesn’t exist, why is the middle class being dismantled piece by piece in the interest of cheap overseas labor and imports?
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