Thousands of federal jobs may go abroad, U.S. says

Statesman ^ | 9/11/03 | Marilyn Geewax

[contessa machiaveli]

he will be a one term president, unfortunately the democrat will be worse.
we're being sold out by the whores we elect and i don't see any way out of this. the US is fast becoming a third world country.

[SamiGirl]

You're right, Joe. I wonder how many illegals this country can absorb without self-destroying. Are we committing national suicide?

[Fraulein]

BTTT

[riri]

I'm beginning to think GWB doesn't want a second term

I never got the impression he cared much one way or the other. In fact during the election debacle, I was so afraid he was just going to fold his cards and go back to Texas.

[riri]

he will be a one term president, unfortunately the democrat will be worse

Yeah, the democrat is going to be worse. We still won't have any jobs plus we won't have a military or national security to boot.

The gay issue, the black issue and the air quality will be our biggest obstacles to overcome.

[searchandrecovery]

They're selling America to the lowest bidder. When the government can't afford the labor of it's own citizens something is horribly wrong. Why does Bush hate the middle class?

[wku man]

"And the country itself will be history within two years."

Hell, I'm ready. I'd rather get it over with sooner than later, anyway. Quit prolonging the agony, you know?

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[DugwayDuke]

"I suggest that the US Customs Department charge a $1,000-per-container inspection fee on every container entering the United States. This fee would be used to completely fund the cost of inspections. ... At 40-hour weeks plus benefits, I estimate the cost per worker to be over $75,000 per year, all paid by the foreign manufacturers. Even so, this would still leave over $2.25 billion to cover all other costs. Any revenue not used would be used to compensate American workers displaced by foreign imports."

Couple of problems. First, if the purpose of the inspection is to prevent WMD from entering the US, our ports of entry are the last place to conduct the inspection. It's a little too late. You need to do that overseas before they enter the US. Second, the costs will not be paid by foreign manufacturers. They will be paid by US consumers. Corporations don't pay taxes, nor do they pay tariffs, they're only passed along to the consumer.

[philetus]

The rich elitists in America have dropped all pretence that they care about the American people.
The dem, rep,ind, whatever polititians are all giving us the finger. All any of them care about is themselves.
Among polititians, politics is called "The Game That Never Ends".
They have screwed us over, time after time and have not had to pay any consequences for it.They now think they can do anything they want to and nothing will happen. They're mostly right.

America is fast becoming a godless, commie country.

[contessa machiaveli]

it's rather sad that we, the president's base are turning against him, but he isn't giving us much. there's rampant illegal immigration,and payoffs to offshore corporations to continue to bleed the american workforce. my disillusionment is not self serving...i'm an editor specializing in rather esoteric manuscripts...my husband is a (ahem) lawyer. we'll always have our income, but i'm worried about the direction this country is going in and i'm petrified of the world my daughter will inherit. i can't help but be totally pessimistic.

[DugwayDuke]

Most of the posters on threads like these were never a part of President Bush's "base". Punitive tarfifs were never a part of Bush's campaign. Most of these posters were, and still are, "Patsy's Base".

[Maximum Leader]

whistling past the graveyard bump

[searchandrecovery]

Most of the posters on threads like these were never a part of President Bush's "base".

I voted for Bush I & II. Your comment is baseless (unlues you have some facts, big guy, which you don't).

[Euro-American Scum]

Why does Bush hate the middle class?

Because he's a globalist just like his father. Never been anything else.

[RaceBannon]

Bush also said that although there's a "down- side in the short term" when employers slash labor costs, "over the long term, productivity lifts Americans' wages."

If companies close, and nothing is produced, how again, is productivity increased?

Can you explain to me how we can make nothing and lift wages??

[RaceBannon]

News to you??

2.1 million jobs lost in this recent downturn. Plus, "Over the past year and two months, we have seen the weakest manufacturing recovery from recession since the Federal Reserve started keeping tabs on such things back in 1919. The data show that since December 2001, manufacturing production has edged up only 1.6 percent, drastically slower than the first 14 months of the previous six recoveries when growth in manufacturing averaged 10.8 percent."

http://www.house.gov/smbiz/hearings/108th/2003/030409/jasinowski.html


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959787/posts
Lawmaker predicts defeat for 'Buy American' language (Defense Department procurement update)

"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade." ~ Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade, January 9, 1848 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/01/09ft.htm#marx

"Communists and socialists feel sure that setting up international “free” trade systems which impose regulations chuck full of intrigues, redistribution plans, arbitrary law, and interdependence schemes, will win out against the conservative interests of every free nation. What could be better than to use “free” trade to reverse the advantage of the relatively free, moral, prosperous,
and strong nations of the Earth, so that the tyrannical, amoral, poor, and weak nations of the socialist bloc might get the upper hand? What could be a more cunning approach than to market the idea that those who oppose “free” trade are enemies of freedom?" http://www.newsmax.com/commentarchive.shtml?a=2000/6/27/105655

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/954156/posts
Why FREE TRADE was never the answer.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/957315/posts
Drifting away: Many fear such 'offshoring' will hurt the economy and national security.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956435/posts
US gives India assurance on outsourcing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956924/posts
Economy held back by 44,000 job losses

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/956820/posts
WHERE THE GOOD JOBS ARE....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956686/posts
Conservative sees free trade as threat to manufacturing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956628/posts
Jobless rate drops, largely because of discouraged people leaving job market

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956517/posts
U.S. labour market shrinks again in July

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/955929/posts
President Blames Unemployment On Lack Of Tech Skills

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/956461/posts
Tellabs to outsource North American manufacturing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/957331/posts
White-collar jobs may not be back soon

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957635/posts
It's Unstoppable: High Tech Jobs Ditching US

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/957588/posts
Manufacturing rally draws 1,200

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960206/posts
Imports force Hooker's downtown factory to close

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959227/posts
A Passage to India Services to Follow Manufacturing Jobs Exodus

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960501/posts
Newsweek column on outsourcing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959757/posts
Sprint plans to send hundreds of technology jobs overseas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960979/posts
Job Losses in State Accelerate; July Payrolls Lowest in 2 Years

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961212/posts
In a small town, workers question the future after factory shutdowns

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961400/posts
Michigan loses as tech jobs slip overseas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961386/posts
IT happens only in India!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961476/posts
Loss of factory jobs may have a long fall to bottom

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962024/posts
Ultimate insult for American programmers as employers seek cheaper labor

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/962493/posts
'Smart-bomb' technology moving to China

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963730/posts
U.S. Offshore Outsourcing Leads to Structural Changes and Big Impact

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/963930/posts
Lucent letting 1,500 more workers go

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/969207/posts
STUDY SHOWS MANUFACTURING IS KEY TO INNOVATION,PRODUCTIVITY,

STRONG GROWTH AND GOOD JOBS

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969195/posts
Death of Manufacturing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969274/posts
Outsourcing boom brews a season of despair in US

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969512/posts
Slump hits white-collar and IT jobs notably hard

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/969622/posts
Forging a case for U.S. jobs in manufacturing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/969664/posts
Experts agree, and jobless know, manufacturing jobs are dwindling

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970204/posts
Free trade's victims turning against Bush, GOP

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970269/posts
Walsh Says "Free Trade" Should Be "Fair Trade"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970333/posts
Taxing businesses that cut U.S. jobs not that farfetched of an idea

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970319/posts
The call to move overseas

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970305/posts
Cut-throat international competition hurts U.S. textile producers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971689/posts
White-collar jobs go abroad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971687/posts
U.S. college grads see jobs being taken abroad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971659/posts
India no longer as attractive for outsourcing, says analyst

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971540/posts
As layoffs mount, import relief sought

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971272/posts
Passage to India? Productivity at home will counter outsourcing.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971255/posts
Large Layoffs, Big Raises

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/970327/posts
U.S. future needs blue-collar might ^

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971712/posts
IMPACT OF U.S.-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS ON WORKERS, WAGES, AND

EMPLOYMENT PILOT STUDY REPORT

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/974687/posts
Tech workers protest overseas outsourcing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/976903/posts
Selling Out America's Future


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/980791/posts
Exporting U.S. Jobs


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/980622/posts
Thousands of federal jobs may go abroad, U.S. says

[FreeReign]

I voted for Bush I & II. Your comment is baseless...

I voted for PJB against Bush I.

I don't know if that posters comments are baseless or not, but I do think that this article is baseless.

[Joe Hadenuf]

You're right, Joe. I wonder how many illegals this country can absorb without self-destroying. Are we committing national suicide?

Yes, our open borders and this U.S. government approved invasion of millions of people that continue to enter our in our country illegally, is the most dangerous, threatening issue facing America. If the President and the rest of those in DC continue to do nothing about this epic invasion, we will lose this country sooner or later.....

[DugwayDuke]

"I voted for Bush I & II. Your comment is baseless (unlues you have some facts, big guy, which you don't)."

My comment that most posters in this thread are members of the "Patsy Brigadier" base is based upon facts. Most posters on this thread are criticizing Bush because he is a "Free Trader" or a "Globalist" and has not adopted the "Fair Trade, Not Free Trade" rhetoric, positions, and policies advocated by "Patsy" Buchanan. If you have some "facts" that disprove this, then feel free to post them.

BTW, there are about a dozen new threads every day on FreeRepublic concerning Bush's Free Trade positions. I suggest you might find them useful in understanding why my comments are based upon facts.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Arc,

I think the answer is we vote in replacement members to represent our views...

best, ampu