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America, Wake The Hell Up
The Market-Ticker ^ | May 5, 2015 | Karl Denninger

Posted on 05/04/2015 4:49:59 AM PDT by SatinDoll

Folks, there is exactly one way you're going to put a stop to this sort of nonsense:

At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs. Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be Jan. 30, 2015.

Some workers left the rooms crying; others appeared shocked. This went on all day. As each employee received a call to go to a conference room, others in the office looked up sometimes with pained expressions. One IT worker recalls a co-worker mouthing "no" as he walked by on the way to a conference room.

Disney, like so many other firms, apparently has been moving many of their high-paying IT jobs effectively offshore -- in many cases demanding that current employees train replacements that then come in and take over. Those replacements are H1b immigrants, frequently from India, where they obtain subsidized schooling and, of course, come from a land where the cost of living is a tiny fraction of what it is here.

These moves are often disguised as "outsourcing" to consultant outfits and similar that do the actual hiring, or as is often the case with call centers and similar the entire operation is moved offshore. In either event the result is the same: Good paying American jobs are lost to foreigners.

This has been going on now for well over a decade; I saw the start of it back before I stood up MCSNet, but the trend has accelerated greatly. Effectively, if it can be offshored it will be in some fashion, exploiting the wage disparity between nations.

You can argue all you want about lifting the living conditions in these other lands but doing so comes at our expense. Even so-called "American" companies like General Motors and Ford have effectively offshored huge percentages of their car manufacturing through their supply chains and where the pieces that go into the cars come from.

We, the people, have permitted this. We in fact fund it every time we buy products and services made by companies that do this. While today there are no alternatives left in many industries that do none of it we can stop buying goods and services from the worst offenders and by doing so pressure firms to bring home their manufacturing -- and jobs.

As an example Apple both sources virtually everything that goes into its iPhone and iPad products from Asia and assembles there too. If you care about American jobs you cannot buy Apple products -- period. Likewise, Disney is not a "need", it's a want, and if you care about high-paying American IT jobs don't go to Disney parks.

There is only one way to stop this crap and that's when you, the American consumer, refuse to buy from the worst of these firms and press the advantage when someone pops up to assemble products and employ workers here in America. As soon as that pressure is applied someone will step up and seize market share.

It starts with you folks; you either care about the future of this country and both your job and the job that your kids will (or won't!) have, or you don't. You either put a stop to this through the pressure of the market or you not only ratify you accelerate this trend by buying an iPhone, iWatch or iPad and going to a Disney park.

Economic suicide is a choice.

Choose wisely.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: corporatewelfare; employment; h1b; h1bvisas; offshore; outsourcing
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To: DungeonMaster

>>It took over a year and a half but I found a job that paid 1/3 as much and that I liked 3 times as much. <<

Sometimes I really wish I could chuck it all and just be a developer (my true love).

But 35 years of experience in IT in many roles, including Director of Operations, pretty much ensures I can only do development I assign myself (which I always do) as part of the project.

And that development is the only time on the project I truly enjoy myself.


41 posted on 05/04/2015 3:22:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As long as there is inequality of ambition, there will be inequality of wealth /dfgator 4/29/15)
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To: central_va

>>As a side insult, I work in IT and ALL the H1B’s and Indian green carders that I know personally voted for Obastard, twice.<<

You should have turned them in!


42 posted on 05/04/2015 3:24:07 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As long as there is inequality of ambition, there will be inequality of wealth /dfgator 4/29/15)
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To: freedumb2003; central_va
Election polling for Asian Indian-American citizens is quite shocking if you are not familiar with it.

In 2008, all polls had them at 90% or higher for Obama.

In 2012, they were in the 80%-90% range for Obama.

They are the best educated ethnic group in America, although it's not clear how many have degrees from Asian Indian universities, which are often not accredited by USA corporations.

Just read an article today, I think from Drudge, that states legal Asian Indian immigrants and legal Mexican immigrants were tied at about 125,000 each in 2013.

Legal Chinese immigrants were number one in 2013, about 135,000, if I recall correctly.

43 posted on 05/04/2015 6:23:13 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: SatinDoll

It is interesting to me that the Conservatives in the UK won in large part by promising to hold a referendum on whether or not to exit from the European Union. Yet on Fox everything BUT this is being credited for the win. Plain and simple fact is, most people don’t want to be economically sold down the river.


44 posted on 05/09/2015 6:51:12 AM PDT by BlackAdderess ("Give me a but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth". --Archimedes)
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To: moehoward
Years ago when the major garment mills sent manufacturing offshore (NAFTA) there was apparent disregard for QC, with a high rate of defectives. Not anymore.

The reality is even harsher - the quality work is done offshore, now. Domestic garments, on average, are dramatically inferior. There is some quality available from Canada, but very little from US suppliers.

I expect this trend to continue across all industries.

45 posted on 05/09/2015 7:02:08 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: SatinDoll

Huge bump to this article.

America we need to build America back up. We need to bring back jobs right here, and stop selling off everything.

I’m completely serious.


46 posted on 05/09/2015 7:05:58 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ( http://www.census.gov/foreign-tradebalance/c5700.html)
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To: zeestephen
Election polling for Asian Indian-American citizens is quite shocking if you are not familiar with it.

Because they really do believe (thanks to relentless Democrat propaganda and Republicans' own stupidity) that:

1) Outside of major cities, the US is populated with white, racist rednecks who want to kill them.

2) Republicans want them all deported, regardless of their legal status.

47 posted on 05/09/2015 7:06:50 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Oh there’s quality stuff made in the USA, and some of my accounts insist on it. There’s a few small eastern state mills that are still manned by ‘english speaking’ union folk, but most of the made in the USA labels mean sewn in the USA by illegal labor union or not.


48 posted on 05/09/2015 8:21:05 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Re: “Republicans’ own stupidity”

Please bring me up to date on that stupidity.

With avid Republican assistance:

Asian Indians acquire or renew more USA work visas each year than any other ethnic group in the world.

In 2014, India was in a virtual three way tie for first place with China and Mexico for legal immigration to the USA - about 150,000 per year.

Re: “Outside of major cities, the US is populated with white, racist rednecks who want to kill them.”

Like the racist redneck homicidal Asian Indian Republican Governor of Louisiana?

Like the racist redneck homicidal Asian Indian Republican Governor of South Carolina?


49 posted on 05/09/2015 10:40:22 AM PDT by zeestephen
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