Posted on 08/14/2005 10:04:04 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
Our county government outsources. When we get our tax bill in the mail we sent it to Charlotte, a few counties over.
The county says they save money by outsourcing. If they can do it why not the rest of us?
Note to self: read later.
And Kerry denies he was opposed to outsourcing. http://sify.com/news/othernews/fullstory.php?id=14119701
My neighbor, who supplies scaffolding to nuclear power plants, decided to contract with a company in China to build his parts. They wined and dine him. Supplied him with prostitutes and he paid his monies to the local governors.
He goes there about every two months to "see" that his parts are made properly. He save about 15 to 20 percent on parts. He felt he had to do this to stay in business.
The kicker is that he gets about 75% to 80% of the contracts here in the U.S. He has no real competition.
It's greed. Plain and simple.
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Bttt
Free trade bump!
And it's killin us...
A great one liner! Not as funny as, "Take my wife.. Please!" But not bad.
It's on the par with the Charlie Brown cartoon with Lucy holding that football for Charlie.
Sure, India and China are going to hold that domestic market spot for American companies.
As Lucy says, "Ha! Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!"
Bump - another great post.
(*)McKinseys motives in this, however, may not be as pure as the wind-driven snow, or even the silt-ridden Ganges. According to an article from The Times of India, McKinsey is being paid to generate jobs in India:
You were a tad ahead of your time with this piece... even down to the self-serving early corruption... Nice.
http://www.gogov.com/kerryoutsourcing1.htm
from link:
Kerry Led Outsourcing Trade Mission to China.
Ties to Boston Company Boasting Over 70 Outsourcing Projects
by Russell Betts - GoGov.com (August 15, 2004)
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John Kerry, who has made opposition to corporate outsourcing of U.S. jobs to places like China a major part of his presidential campaign, appears to have had major involvement with a Boston, Massachusetts company specializing in outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing and jobs.
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During the late 1990’s, Kerry led at least one of the company’s outsourcing trade missions to China, appearing for photos at a banquet in Beijing with representatives of Boston Capital & Technology and unidentified Chinese trade representatives. The exact date of the trip is not given on the company website but appears to have taken place between 1996 and 1998.
Some of the projects undertaken by Boston Capital & Technology include setting up tool & die manufacturing in China, high technology transfers to Chinese telecommunication companies and transfer of highly specialized commercial software utilized in computer aided manufacturing. The company also set up manufacturing in China for an infant gifts company with 12,000 U.S. retail outlets and manufacturing for a company supplying the US home healthcare market.
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John Kerry attending BCT banquet in Beijing, China.
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It is not clear how many jobs previously held by U.S. citizens have been transferred to China through Boston Capital & Technology outsourcing projects or how many, if any Kerry’s lead involvement at the Beijing meeting has had. In one event that could have long ranging effects in the battle with China over U.S. jobs, Boston Capital & Technology did hold a US/China Symposium at Tsinghua University, a university referred to as “The “M.I.T. of China”.
Kill the H-1B visa. KILL IT!!!!!!!
This is why we need a really high protective import tariff. It needs to be across the board, uniform and not targeted against specific countries. This the only way to protect American workers and wages. Or the alternative is to become the third world.
Free Traitor bump.
Americans will not have your misguided so called protective tariffs.
Americans make stuff and go all over the world to sell their products. They have done so since the beginning of American time.
If tariffs on the scale you desire were wanted, we would have them. Americans don’t want them and we don’t have them.
The post mentions the textile industry. The American textile business was stolen from the UK. It came to Massachuttes where cheap power and labor proved so competitive the Brit industry withered. Then, as the Yankee textile workers demanded excessive wages, the business moved to the Carolinas where there was an abundant supply of willing workers.
Alas, that was not to last as post WW II economies took the textile manufacturing business because they were more competitive. Whole plants were disassembled and moved to Bangladesh and Peru. Ironically, Bangladeshi workers were put out of work by the movement from Columbia NC of a state of the art Japanese manufactured computer controlled plant that took in cotton bales at one end and spit out T shirt yarn at a mind boggling rate at the other end. There were SC companies established solely to broker the sales ow whole textile plants to foreign buyers.
The president is to be applauded for his nationalism. However, he will not bring jobs home. His efforts will create new jobs making new stuff. He will not bring home the textile jobs to the Carolinas. He will not bring home the jobs to the closed rayon plants, the polyester yarn plants.
We live in the world where we actively engage in competative trade. We like the competition and shun the tariffs that hamper out efforts to trade freely whereever we can sell the stuff we make.
Manufacturing in America is alive and well We are in fact selling our stuff in every nook and cranny our salesmen can travel
The anti trade isolationist mindset will never prevail in an America of traders.
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