[ninenot]

Shrimp farmers, tool-and-die makers, and IT pros.

But they're not coming after ME!!! So who cares?

[A. Pole]

The real tsunami hit U.S. shrimpers in 2002, when the European Union, Japan and Canada banned shrimp from China, Thailand and Vietnam because of detected residues of chloramphenicol, a potent, broad-spectrum antibiotic suspected of causing aplastic anemia and other blood conditions. China, Thailand and Vietnam unloaded their shrimp cargoes on the U.S. market instead, even though federal regulations prohibit use of chloramphenicol in food-producing animals and animal feed products.

There is a simple free market solution to this problem - American consumers who get aplastic anemia from chloramphenicol will not buy these shrimp anymore.

[marcinrochester]

I know some people who are afraid they will lose their jobs. If you spend your day sitting at a computer screen or a telephone, your job can be done by a very low paid person in India.

[FreedomAvatar]

Don't worry. The government will save us.

[Protagoras]

More jobs are lost to protectionism than creative destruction. And the latter creates jobs, the former cannot.

[Vision]

Last night I was troubleshooting AOL software on my uncle's computer. The tech was in India.

[EagleMamaMT]

Read later.

[Walkin Man]

Moreover, the president has staked out 2004 to push for completion of the so-called Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement, a plan to merge the countries of the Western Hemisphere into a European Union-style common market. However, like the original European Common Market, the FTAA is much more than a trade pact. It has been designed to evolve into a supranational regional government, but in a much shorter time span than it took the Europeans to arrive at that stage. Like the EU, the FTAA’s central executive authority would be strongly socialistic and would gradually claim the power to overrule the national laws and constitutions of its member states.

If this is true, our so-called conservative President has broken the oath he took on inauguration day with his hand on the Bible!

He swore before God and man to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States and now is actively working to destroy it!

This is an outrage!

[Cacique]

btt

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"(8) Since 1999 our Government has provided more than $1,800,000,000 in financing and insurance for these foreign countries through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and our Government’s current exposure relative to these countries through our Export-Import Bank totals some $14,800,000,000, bringing the total subsidy of these countries by the United States to over $16,500,000,000.
(9) Many of these countries are not market-oriented, and hence their participation in United States-supported international finance regimes amounts to a direct subsidy by American taxpayers in the shrimping sector of their international competitors.

That’s $16.5 billion. With help like that, is it any wonder that these countries are able to produce the glut of shrimp that is destroying our shrimping industry?"

Replace the word "shrimping" with any of the following:
Software Engineering, Information Technology, hardware engineering, accounting, paralegal, finance, bookkeeping, systems analysis, call centers, and any field that requires working at a desk with a phone or a computer.

[Mikey]

"Mr. Davis noted the tremendous disincentives to production posed by taxes, regulations, employee medical insurance, and labor union obstruction"

"...the free enterprise system that made our economic miracle possible is being suffocated in a socialist swamp of regulatory red tape. U.S. regulatory costs — especially from regulations allegedly aimed at environmental and safety risks..."

"...the millions of U.S. jobs that soon could be leaving for India, China, Russia and other offshore destinations, there is the added threat to American workers from imported labor. Hundreds of thousands of American information technology (IT) workers have lost their jobs in the past several years to foreign replacements through the L-1 and H-1B visa programs. American software engineers, computer designers, technicians, electrical engineers and other hi-tech employees are being replaced by workers from India, Pakistan, the Middle East and China. No other country in the world has adopted such reckless and suicidal immigration policies. Incredibly, the Bush administration is advocating an amnesty for millions of illegal aliens that dwarfs the amnesty proposals of Bill Clinton. Moreover, President George Bush and many members of Congress enthusiastically favor more outsourcing, more L-1 and H1-B visas, and more immigration overall. At a December 15, 2003 press conference, President Bush stated: “I have constantly said that we need to have an immigration policy that helps match any willing employer with any willing employee.” (Emphasis added.) There is virtually an unlimited supply of willing employees worldwide who would be more than happy to immigrate to the U.S., but how is that going to help put Americans back to work?"

WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER

[EdReform]

BTTT

read later...

[showme_the_Glory]

UC Berkeley economists said ........

That's as far as I got in this post.....