Hastert Lashes Aide on Exporting Jobs

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[Revolting cat!]

I hope the WH strategerists learn how to spell b-a-c-k-l-a-s-h, before Halloween 2004!

[neutrino]

Jobs at stores, hotels and restaurants are expected to grow faster than average

Oh, joy. An opportunity to be a Wal-Mart greeter may yet open up!

[gg188]

The good news is, ``Nine of the top 10 fastest-growing occupations will be in the health care or technology fields,'' Chao said.

The bad news is that the technology jobs will be in India.

[RaceBannon]

The good news is, ``Nine of the top 10 fastest-growing occupations will be in the health care or technology fields,'' Chao said.

All that means is that we are going to have socialized medicine, and they will need more people to run the beauracracy, so, the government will be hiring...soon...

[maui_hawaii]

If it keeps up, professional organizations and unions will see an unprecedented growth.

[whadizit]

This a.m. Neal Boortz explained how jobs overseas ACTUALLY IMPROVES ECONOMY here! It all starts with premise that workers here will not work for less than say $10/hr. It boils down to co. charging more for product if made here, so consumers will not buy that one but the cheaper one, so the American co. will go out of business trying to compete.

Hastert is not 100% right on this matter. When Americans are willing to work at what employers are willing to pay in order to make a profit, then things will change.

[maui_hawaii]

I don't know who Neal Boortz is. Don't care. He's not even close to 100% right either.

Sounds like yet another partisan hack who comes up with anything at all to defend his position to me.

[maui_hawaii]

It doesn't matter how much any company saves. If they save money by eliminating their customers, they will die and deserve it.

This topic is beaten like a dead horse. I have refuted statements like Mr. Boortz 50 times already.

Its going to come out in the ballot box. No more arguing.

[whadizit]

"...another partisan hack.."

Not hardly, my friend.

[Revolting cat!]

Neal Boortz, whoever street corner he preaches from, must be one wearing a pair of those Nike sneakers that no longer cost $120 since Nike started exporting jobs to foreign sweat shops. What do they cost now? $20?

Or he'd buy a piece of computer software made in Albania instead of its competing American equivalent if the American company couldn't outsource jobs to India, right?

[maui_hawaii]

Is This the guy you are talking about?

So he's a radio show host and he's not a partisan hack? He should stick to radio.

Sounds like he's the same thing, but on the other end, of a hollywood movie star.

Unless he's done international business, I say he should stick to things he's qualified to talk about.

From the web site:

I wasn't through with higher education after Texas A&M. I entered law school in Atlanta in 1973 and graduated in 1977. Law school finally presented a challenge worthy of my attention, so I worked at it and graduated near the top of my class. I passed the bar before graduation so I went into practice immediately. I continued practicing law until I signed a contract with WSB in 1992.

During my years in talk radio I have managed to find other things to do. We'll attribute this to the fact that I am easily bored. From 1977 to 1992, as I said, I practiced law in addition to doing the talk show. Prior to 1977 you could find me working as a jewelry or carpet buyer, an insurance salesman, selling life and casualty insurance, loading trucks, slinging mail at the post office, working in an employment office, writing speeches for the Governor of Georgia and auditing the books overnight at a sleazy motel. Since I didn't retire from my law practice until I signed with WSB in 1992 this would mean that I was 47 years old before I ever had less than two jobs

He sounds like a hard worker, but still unqualified to make a judgement.

[Brimack34]

I hope ""Hassert"" learns how to save money instead of spending like a drunkin' kennedy!!!

[henderson field]

This is funny. The guys in congress are the ones who initiated the job losses and outsourcing by signing on to NAFTA, GATT and the global economy. Now that it is blowing up in their faces they are disassociating themselves from the very thing they created!

[meadsjn]

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., introduced a nonbinding resolution saying Bush's policies ``have either failed to address or exacerbated the loss of manufacturing jobs'' in the United States.

Hillary has also been busy selling out the U.S.

Firm will look to UB for research projects that may have a commercial use

Buffalo's bioinformatics center signed up a new corporate partner Monday, one with capital and business ties that will help transform lab research into job-generating products, officials said. Tata Consultancy Services, an infotech giant based in Mumbai, India, signed a research sharing partnership with UB in a ceremony Monday. It also announced the opening of a regional office in downtown Buffalo.

"TCS is an international powerhouse in the area of consulting and information technology," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the ceremony at the Hyatt. "I think this will lead to more jobs and investment here in Buffalo."

Sen. Clinton introduced the company to upstate New York in a tour last summer.

The high-powered announcement also drew Subramaniam Ramadorai, TCS' chief executive officer; Nobel laureate Herbert Hauptman, of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello.

But local competitors fear TCS could end up exporting computer tasks to India, where wages for programmers are lower.

[maui_hawaii]

You do make a point...

[henderson field]

That's right. Henry Ford had it figured out. He paid his workers $5 a day (when that was plenty). Why? Altruism? No. So they would have enough money to buy the cars they made. As the ability of the U.S. market to consume is reduced, the outsourcing companies will come to realize the truth of this.

[537 Votes]

The economy has always created new jobs to meet foreign outsourcing in the past. What's killing us now is that illegal immigrants are taking those jobs as soon as they are created.

If Bush wants to create 2.3 million jobs tomorrow, all he has to do is have the military kick out 2.3 million illegal immigrant workers.

[A. Pole]

``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,'' it read. ``This allows the United States to devote its resources to more productive purposes.''

To what purposes? To provide assistance to the unemployed/underemplyed? How those resouces end up in the US coffers, taxed from the extra profits of outsourcers or from the remaining workers?

[greenwolf]

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Mankiw's job was not in jeopardy...

It sure as hell would be if I were president.