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Off-shoring American jobs - good for corporations, bad for everyone else
Communities Digital News ^ | September 20, 2014 | Richard Cameron

Posted on 09/20/2014 2:28:08 PM PDT by Noremac

Edited on 09/20/2014 3:07:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Every now and then I see an article that is so reality deficient that it commits what amounts to sexual assault against common sense. Actually I see them all the time, but one in particular had me shaking my head.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: freetrade; offshoring; outsourcing; unemployment
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To: Jonty30

And the consumer demands low prices in many cases because of the pressure of taxes and energy and a lot of other things government has effed up.....


21 posted on 09/20/2014 3:58:23 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Aria

My job as a hospital medical transcriptionist was off-shored to India almost 4 years ago. Via Dictaphone/Nuance, the work of the Indian MTs has to go through several revisions in order to be readable, so the company in the long run is probably paying them as much as they pay American MTs (4 cents/edited line), but they work 6 days a week/50 hours with no medical benefits since they have universal health care, no 401k, no family medical leave, etc.

In the long run, we will end up a third world country in the next 10 years, thanks to NAFTA. TPTB do not care about us as they are too busy chasing after the 2 billion people living in China and India to buy their products. Well, good luck with that when their economies come crashing down.


22 posted on 09/20/2014 4:06:12 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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To: Noremac

Until and when this government makes industry profitable by decreasing taxation and legislation, industry is going to go overseas, and I don’t blame them.

I don’t like it a bit, but if we expect corporations to be jobs programs out of the good of their hearts instead of moneymaking ventures, that is the way it is going to go.


23 posted on 09/20/2014 4:35:50 PM PDT by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

it seems to be a cozy partnership - so no, I can’t pin the Donkey just to predatory capitalists. Call it the Wall Street / Washington Axis.


24 posted on 09/20/2014 4:47:59 PM PDT by Noremac (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act – George Orwell)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Yes, in a strict sense, that’s correct.


25 posted on 09/20/2014 4:49:11 PM PDT by Noremac (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act – George Orwell)
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To: Jonty30

“They want cheap labor because the consumer demands products at the lowest prices.

But we are supposed to have a government to protect this nation from those in it that seek sedition of her commerce.


26 posted on 09/20/2014 5:01:36 PM PDT by CodeToad (Romney is a raisin cookie looking for chocolate chip cookie votes.)
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To: Noremac

Blaming predatory capitalists is just insane. Blame government, and crony capitalists....now you’re talking.


27 posted on 09/20/2014 5:03:32 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Jonty30
--Americans, who are the prime consumers of most corporations, if they are impoverished, they will also stop buying goods and services and corporations will lose their profits."

One would think so but check the demographics. Asia has two billion plus potential consumers, America, 330 million. Yeah there are income differences at present but the playing field is being leveled. America will not be a prime market in the future.

28 posted on 09/20/2014 5:11:04 PM PDT by buckalfa (Long time caller --- first time listener.)
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To: CodeToad

Who will protect the corporations from the consumer who wants to save a few bucks on everything?


29 posted on 09/20/2014 5:31:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Prince of Space

I agree....they’re impoverishing their own customers! Henry Ford knew better than this.

They already have billions...I guess it just isn’t enough. :-(


30 posted on 09/20/2014 5:41:16 PM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coups d’état .)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Two words — Hawley Smoot.


31 posted on 09/20/2014 6:06:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (That whistling sound you hear is the fall of the local IQ.)
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To: Jonty30
Long term, it is not good for corporations either. At some point, if it continues, Americans, who are the prime consumers of most corporations, if they are impoverished, they will also stop buying goods and services and corporations will lose their profits.

I have been using that argument ever since NAFTA kicked in and its "virtues" were extolled. I wrote corporate CEOs and the media and said they all they were doing was laying off each others customers.

Those who bothered to answer patted me on the head and said that Global Competition (a race to the bottom) was good for us. I responded that I had no problem competing internationally with places like Europe where wages were equal or higher (we could lick 'em hands down). My problem was placing U.S. workers in competition with people who lived in mud huts and thought $1 a day was a great wage.

We are seeing the results today, and those same people can't seem to make the connection.

32 posted on 09/20/2014 6:38:13 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Oatka

The job can be done by someone living in a mud hut for one dollar a day? Doesn’t sound like that great of a job.


33 posted on 09/20/2014 7:22:20 PM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: Jonty30

Consumers have been trained that the lowest price is all that matters. Many consumer know price is only one factor, or should be only one factor.

Many companies sell value and people snap it up.


34 posted on 09/20/2014 11:14:21 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Jonty30
Long term, it is not good for corporations either. At some point, if it continues, Americans, who are the prime consumers of most corporations, if they are impoverished, they will also stop buying goods and services and corporations will lose their profits.

Doesn't stop those on welfare from chasing the free stuff with total disregard for the fact that it effectively enslaves them and the gravy boat will run dry at some point.

The similarity is that both are results of "liberal" lawmakers who think all money belongs to the government.

35 posted on 09/21/2014 5:31:31 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: AceMineral
The job can be done by someone living in a mud hut for one dollar a day? Doesn’t sound like that great of a job.

Compared to grubbing through the municipal dump for survival, I would imagine it is Valhalla.

36 posted on 09/21/2014 10:58:58 AM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: Noremac

"You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! "

37 posted on 09/21/2014 11:04:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: dfwgator

I confess ignorance. Dial me in. Is that a quote from a movie? If so, which one? Or is it from a book or speech. It’s interesting.


38 posted on 09/21/2014 2:34:47 PM PDT by Noremac (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act – George Orwell)
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To: Oatka

By “great” I mean something that takes a particularlly skillful effort.


39 posted on 09/21/2014 3:19:18 PM PDT by AceMineral (One day men will beg for chains.)
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To: Noremac

America has gone (way) overboard on the selling-out of American jobs.

Big time.

Bring back jobs to America.


40 posted on 09/21/2014 3:21:41 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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