I wonder why this got bumped off the Breaking News.
This is news to me, and it is a huge issue.
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