instead of outsourcing, we should be Insourcing.
I agree that America needs a much more aggressive global trade policy.
But I am not sure this is it.
That said, Trump really needs to do something about bringing back American jobs.
Our trade situation is terrible. With several countries.
Both democrats, as well as Republicans, are sold out.
Trump you made this a big issue during the campaign. A lot of people supported you because of this issue.
Now do something.
Makes a lot of sense. Many of my friends work from home for companies not located in CA. Doesn’t matter where you are really anymore. All one needs is a good internet connection, a decent computer and cell phone and you’re off to the races. No?
FBI etal just blew billions on the relocation plans to either Prince Georges(MD) or Fairfax County(VA) with the states bidding and adding to the waste of taxpayer dollars.
Guess we can call this a PDT ‘victory’ as two Democrat strongholds were denied this building.
Now, step 1 of RELOCATING the FED could begin in earnest, draining the swamp in ways no one thought possible.
Start with FBI being relocated somewhere in Mid America, a Red State not really necessary as when WE pay to relocate the permanent govt employees they will just ‘turn’ the state Blue.
Of course tell the employees WE did not guarantee your job would be in WashingtonDC for your lifetime, we are moving to Kansas and your job is there if you are willing to move (on your own) to Kansas.
The present highway infrastructure in place in the WashingtonDC area would be dang near perfect if ALL the Government employees were elsewhere.
UN should be next - move it to Somalia or Syria, where the UN could do the job it was chartered to do.
Should be plenty of room in Somalia or Syria as all the able bodied men are ‘relocating’...
Saw a ‘great’ cartoon in Patriot Post today,
Person in unemployment office with a robot as clerk.
Indeed
For the past 10 years I’ve worked from home in Minnesota for employers based in New York, Chicago and Maine. This is not a new thing.
You’re not going to be able to work remotely at dial up modem speed. We need to run fiber EVERYWHERE.
I was hired by a high tech startup in Tallahassee. There were zero tech workers in Tallahassee. All the high tech people came from other areas, including California.* You can start a company anywhere, say Newfoundland or rural Buttbrother, Alaska. You just have to pay more for tech and you may need to accept remote workers. But the article is talking about (cough) “diversity” and “evening out political diversity.” (I think that means diluting the votes of people who are not sufficiently diverse enough to see how right liberalism is.)
* The California people were posers and annoying as heck. They came with a preconceived view that everybody not from LA or San Francisco were snot-nosed, low-bowed cretins. They only worked long enough to finally get rehired somewhere in California. One of them apparently thought he looked cool in a $1000 leather jacket. He told me how much it cost. The temperature in the plant never got below 78, way too hot for leather and outside during spring, summer and fall it was over 90 with high humidity. People used to watch him go passed. He must have thought it was because he looked so cool. Nope. Just the opposite.
With many call centers and back office operations already located around the country, the essential managerial talent and tools are available. The larger question is whether rank and file employees are available in sufficient numbers with the necessary job skills and readiness to work.
The downside of going remote, is that once you have the infrastructure in place to allow remote workers from Ohio, you can just as easily fill the jobs with remote workers from outside the US, too.
Oh, God, please no!
And not everyone, especially us in rural areas, do not have high speed internet. My PC is connected to my Verizon phone tether to get to the internet right now. AT&T is the only broadband ISP here, and they're "out of bandwidth" ('course it's the same 6 Mb they've offered for the last 15 years!).
How about thinking and working harder for their business bottom line instead of being social workers?