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For example, when American firms outsource call-centre and information-technology-support jobs to India and other Asian countries, the result should be higher imports of services, yet official statistics do not show such an increase. America's recorded imports of software services from India are also much smaller than India's reported exports of such services to America.

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[Fledermaus]

100% BS!

Try reading these...they are written by people with brains!

“Outsourcing Bigotries”: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6384

“Outsourcing Stikes Back”: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200404050807.asp

“The (Out)Source of All Confusion”: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200403290816.asp

“Cut Outsourcing = Cut Profits”: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200403100853.asp

“Outsource? Of Course”: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200312310838.asp

“Outsourcing Is Out of Sight”: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=6181

“Traders Are Not Traitors”:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/003/891ntaxx.asp

“Politics and Trade”: http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/003/807hodma.asp

“John Kerry & Benedict Arnold”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/richlowry/rl20040401.shtml

“The Anti-Free Trader’s True Enemy”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040204.shtml

“Sweatshop Exploitation”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20040128.shtml

“Jobs Come And Go”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/walterwilliams/ww20031126.shtml

“ ‘Outsourcing’ “: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040316.shtml

“Third World Sweatshops”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040127.shtml

“Third World Sweatshops Part II”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040128.shtml

“Manufacturing Confusion”: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040115.shtml

“The States and Outsourcing”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/020904G.html

“Fear Not Outsourcing, Knowledge Works”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/030404F.html

“Outsourcing and Elections”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/062503A.html

“Taking Advantage”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/012004B.html

“Outsource This”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/030404A.html

“Please, Outsource to My Daughter”:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/071403D.html

“The Real Benedict Arnolds”: http://www.techcentralstation.com/031104G.html

“Exporting Lou Dobbs and John Kerry”:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/021104F.html

“Outsourcing is the American Way”: http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_canto/canto200404060834.asp

“Labor’s Lost Jobs”: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/07/opinion/07KANE.html

“Speaking of Job Growth, Teens Need to Plan Ahead”: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001897080_matt07.html

[Moonman62]

But there is another explanation: America's GDP figures, which have been strong, may be inaccurate, and may be exaggerating the extent of economic growth.

The earnings reports from companies confirm the GDP growth. Jobs always lag in an economic recovery. GWB has his weaknesses when it comes to economics, but the economy has been heading in the right direction since the second tax cut.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

DESPITE the welcome leap in American employment in March (see article), America's job market has been surprisingly weak in the past couple of years—surprising, at least, to economists.

Is this a left-leaning magazine? No mention of historic lows in unemployment. The 8.5 million workers that kerry will give 10 million jobs to. Etc., etc,...

[XBob]

Raise our exports - export Bush's economic advisors.

[Fledermaus]

For example, when American firms outsource call-centre and information-technology-support jobs to India and other Asian countries, the result should be higher imports of services, yet official statistics do not show such an increase. America's recorded imports of software services from India are also much smaller than India's reported exports of such services to America.

If Mr Hatzius is right, then jobs have been slow to pick up largely because this has been, at least until now, an exceptionally weak economic recovery. That is exactly what you might have expected after the bursting of the biggest financial bubble in history.

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Isn't that amazing? I posted a direct repsonse to a specfic point to an article you posted and YOU call it spamming!

I'd do the Jack Nicholson "you can't handle the truth", but what's the point? Oops, I already did.

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