[White House] Report: Exporting Jobs Overseas Will Help U.S

LA Times ^ | Feb 9, 2004 | Warren Vieth and Edwin Chen

[Tanniker Smith]

Well, I teach in a high school. I'd like to see 'em export my position. (Or maybe just some of my students.)

[mrsmith]

And from the "overview":
"A burgeoning trade in services provides an important outlet for U.S. expertise in sectors such as banking, engineering, and higher education. The ability to buy less expensive goods and services from new producers has made household budgets go further, while the ability of firms to distribute their production around the world has cut costs and thus prices to consumers. The benefits from new forms of trade, such as in services, are no different from the benefits from traditional trade in goods. Outsourcing of professional services is a prominent example of a new type of trade. The gains from trade that take place over the Internet or telephone lines are no different than the gains from trade in physical goods transported by ship or plane. When a good or service is produced at lower cost in another country, it makes sense to import it rather than to produce it domestically. This allows the United States to devote its resources to more productive purposes.
Although openness to trade provides substantial benefits to nations as a whole, foreign competition can require adjustment on the part of some individuals, businesses, and industries. To help workers adversely affected by trade develop the skills needed for new jobs, the Administration has worked hard to build upon and develop programs to assist workers and communities that are negatively affected by trade. "

That's all, out of 4.9 MB, PDF , on "outsourcing"
2004 Economic Report of the President

[greydog]

The industrial revolution wasn't any fun for the people caught in the middle of the transformation either, but I don't think anyone can argue it wasn't an improvement over the Agrarian society that preceded it.

Now we're entering the Information Revolution.

The Industrial Revolution improved the efficiency of making material, finite things, which made monies exchange hands faster, which in turn improved material wealth over a large base.

The Information Revolution improves the efficiency of immaterial, abstract things which improves material wealth over a very small base.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

I think the new paradigm for jobs is finding services that cater to the new rich in this country.

THat would take serendipity, Fee. What can you think of that some cheap labor import can't fill at a fraction of what you can offer it for?

[joesnuffy]

I guess it all depends upon whose ox is being gored

[oceanview]

are you in a teachers union? your union may well be the only thing that protects you in the long run, from distance learning being used to beam your class in from India.

[truthkeeper]

God help us if they actually believe this.

[oceanview]

its high value services. cutting lawns and domestic help can be done by the cheap labor imports. fixing a mercedes, working for a company that sells fractional jet service, won't be affected.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

that is true, I have posted on similar threads that mechanics at Mercedes dealers make $85K and up.

How? The Guest Worker proposal just opened the door to the world's cheap labor. Don't you think there are good mechanics in Romania who will do the same job here on our soil for $10,000?

[tongue-tied]

I think the new paradigm for jobs...


You said paradigm. It seems you were seriously trying to use it in a sentence. You must now be shot!

Just kidding, but that is one of those overused "buzz words" that everyone hears and throws around. Sort of like "gravitas" was tossed (hurled?) so often back leading up to 2000 elections.

Come to think of it, that whole "paradigm shift" craze was way long ago...

This is a vanity reply to what may have been a serious post, but I just cringe when I hear (or read) that evil word.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

(Or maybe just some of my students.)

LOL You're dreaming, TS.

[oceanview]

the guest worker program isn't going to pass.

[joesnuffy]

The 'Middle Class' is so bourgeois anyway.....cluttering up the ye ole fiefdom

[Beck_isright]

"The movement of American factory jobs and white-collar work to other countries is part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time, even if it causes short-term pain and dislocation, the Bush administration said today."

Thus why the scum Kerry will have a chance to unseat the Bush dynasty.

Again.

Like the rats did in 92.

Because of arsebackwards thinking like that quote above.

[Beck_isright]

"Although trade expansion inevitably hurts some workers, it says, the benefits will eventually outweigh the costs as Americans are able to buy goods and services at lower costs and as jobs are created in growing sectors of the economy."

Thank God we outsourced all the 7-11s so we can afford to buy those low costs essentials like HoHos and Twinkies.

[oceanview]

but what is amazing to me is that Kerry doesn't seem to "get it", at least not yet. he should be running on this issue alone night and day, start sounding like Perot. Instead, he is talking about the national guard.

[NRA2BFree]

are you in a teachers union? your union may well be the only thing that protects you in the long run, from distance learning being used to beam your class in from India.

Unions are powerless over outsourcing. In fact, the high wage demands of unions have contributed to many firms outsourcing!

[Beck_isright]

He will "get it". Because the left is not stupid. Evil, yes, but not stupid. I'm beginning to think the GOP is just arrogant and doesn't realize the how easy they could lose more than just the White House in this election.

[Lijahsbubbe]

The 'Middle Class' is so bourgeois anyway.....cluttering up the ye ole fiefdom

Sometimes I can't get the dirt and coal dusted off of the children before the Presidential Parade passes by..........

[oceanview]

sure, manufacturing unions.

but the municipal and teachers unions are all powerful, do you think this will ever happen to them? see any H1B visa holders coming in by the tens of thousands to work in government, as teachers, as firemen, as police officers?