I'm not counting on Bush to get me another job. I left Circuit City to come to my current job btw. 2 years and the local store folded up after I left too. It couldn't compete because it's a publicly traded company. As soon as a company sells out to the stock market, employees get the crap end until a business folds up because it can't maintain ever rising kickbacks to the stockholders and won't give raises for fear that the stock price will be affected.. etc. Corporate mentality, make the company money, make the stock maker money, but ever increasing pressure on the employees till you burn them up, get rid of them and bring in new ones to exploit till they've had enough... Business ethics. Welcome to Corporate America.
I had a good job and was doing fine. Bush doesn't control companies. He affects trade policy which in turn sets the standard for what companies can get by with doing - in this case, outsourcing. If you're looking for a way to allow the president to dodge responsibility for his policies and the affects thereof, you'll get no quarter here. It's his policy and his responsibility. Bill Clinton did not set George Bush's trade policy. George Bush did. Companies reacted based on what the Government told them they could get by with via trade policy.
I had a job that didn't lose to local competition. It didn't become obsolete. My job is being handed to Mexican nationals because they are mexicans with mexican cost of living and a different political system that doesn't give a hoot about rights or ethical considerations. My job still exists. American companies just decided that since policy says they can do it, they'll put americans out of work, exploit people in other lands and reimport their services for american dollars.. bypassing most of the rules of our marketplace and legal system, our rights, etc. Freedom loving capitalists who don't like the cost of working in a free country selling us out to exploit our neighbors ain't a good thing.
Getting on the big board,is they way businesses get capitol.If they don't raise money that way,they don't expand.And yes,the shareholders ARE due money,because they funded the company.
There are now MORE jobs,FOR AMERICANS,in the IT field,than there have been in years.The salaries are also expotentially higher than they used to be.
You really enjoy this "victim" act,but nobody else on FR does.It's become more than tiresome and bandwidth wasting.
You must also know that if Kerry gets into the White House, he will make things much worse! Same thing with illegal immigration, and government spending, two issues that I feel much stronger about than outsourcing. Capitalism has its faults, but socialism is always a failure. That's why I'm volunteering and voting for Bush.