Posted on 02/12/2009 6:51:22 PM PST by kellynla
Joe Piscopo, appearing on the Hannity show tonight said, the stimulus needed is to bring manufacturing back to America.
What these guys are talking about is "manufacturing jobs", not "manufacturing".
We have had a very high rate of productivity and it continues to grow.
America is the world's lowest cost producer of a vast quantity of goods.
One of the side effects of productivity improvement is that fewer people are needed to do a given amount of work at the same, or even lower cost.
Joe Piscapo is right IMO.
Damn Skynet! Deport the machines! Send them back! They are taking our jobs. Stupid robots doing the jobs American won’t do. hahaaa
Joe made it clear that he’s happy about the spending bill and has faith in Obozo.
Tell us why Joe is right ~ not just that you think he’s right. I think he’s an ignoramous who has no idea what real factory work is about.
How does he get it??
Stupid progress...
Are you from Jersey?
We are spending a trillion dollars to create or save maybe two or three million jobs. The research group -- Forester -- estimates we're going to off-shore over three million jobs just within the next few years. How many people here on FR, much less the media, are aware that one of the people on the One's Economic team is Diana Ferrell, the former director of McKenzie Global Institute. She authored a study that concluded "outsourcing has potential to increase the world's wealth and can even benefit the country that loses jobs." ------ tell me, how has losing millions of middle class jobs benefited this country??? (just asking) It's benefited the CEO's of the companies doing the sourcing, but not the middle class.
Everyone knows that GE started the outsourcing trend... Jack Welch actually demanded it of all GE vendors, but while Jeffrey Immelt sits on the Obama Economic team, GE's business plan is to increase outsourcing of its production to low-cost countries. Did you all know the "Jack Welch Technological Center" in Bangalore, India is now larger than the company's research center in America? What should be alarming to EVERYONE is GE's (and any companies) intent to offshore innovative technology... oh, well so much for that expensive degree you paid for your kid to obtain, unless he/she wants to move to India, odds are they are going to be in the same bucket as the poor guy in North Carolina that used to make fine furniture.
and.... the Chambers of Commerce in this country -- they pull the strings.. it is they who wanted amnesty, it is they who want the off-shoring of America. When the chambers talks productivity, efficiency and competitiveness, they are really saying cheaper or cheaper labor.
The joke is on the poor yokels that voted for Obama because he said over and over again that he was going to stop the outsourcing and mandate all the jobs be brought back to the USA... he got the union support because of that and now the unions -- who also have a seat on his economic table -- are strangly silent about the people sitting to their sides.
Thats Joisey.
Secondly, even if we don't send them all back, we are talking about "middle class" jobs, that is, those that require educated people to do them.
We have a dire shortage of such folks ~ particularly as the 1% recession abates (you do realize, GDP only dropped 0.95% in the first quarter, right? ~ we have a "phony recession")
Over the long haul the United States has only rarely had enough people to fill its jobs. That's the normal condition here. Productivity improvement helps us make up for those shortages.
I think he is right but there are a lot of people who are in denial they claim to be conservative but step forward in solidarity with liberalism in the name of faithless ideas “like job security” and collective bargaining (threatening). I believe we need even more automation, the idea that it costs jobs is crazy, it just changes the nature of the jobs and it also allows the standard of living to improve across the board. What is consistently ignored as the primary cause of the exporting of jobs and the decrease in manufacturing is the draconian taxation on corporations. the cost of training locals, language barriers, and lack of reliable local infrastructure makes moving operations overseas very expensive but it is a combination of taxation and pressure of organized labor that makes these expensive moves cost effective. mono dimensional protectionist attitudes will destroy our economy if they are let be implemented and reinforced as it seems the Obama Politburo seems intent to implementing.
The opposite is true. We manufacture more stuff than ever, but we do so with fewer jobs in direct manufacturing.
Same with "unions" ~ sure, they must be a problem, but the majority of union members are workers in state, local and federal government agencies ~ not in manufacturing.
Total union membership is down to something like 12% of the workforce anyway.
I suspect that private sector unions represent fewer people than lawyer's guilds (called "partnerships").
Piscipo is so close to being automated out of existence we can smell the grease crackling!
Damn .... looks like Rahm Emmanuel now.
Even the man’s wrinkles lean to the left.
He’s off the ‘roids.
[snip] said, the stimulus needed is to bring manufacturing back to America. [end]
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