We can't hide from downside of offshoring jobs

San Jose Mercury News ^ | Thu, Oct. 13, 2005 | Mercury News Editorial

[Willie Green]

Pulling the wool over Americans' eyes once again.

[Willie Green]

ping

[Rodney King]

The Bush administration's practice of shelving sound research and discarding science that doesn't suit its political goals has been well-documented.

Before even reading the rest of the article, I will simply point out that it never helps your cause to draw in other causes that your readers may or may not agree with. The best this person has possibly done with this first sentence is turn off 25% or so of the audience before they even get to his/her point.

[Dog Gone]

I read the rest of the article which was just stupid from start to finish. I urge everyone to click through.

[fallujah-nuker]

"I read the rest of the article which was just stupid from start to finish. I urge everyone to click through."

But you have to register.

[Willie Green]

But you have to register.

That's weird.
When I click the source link on this thread, it directed me to the registration page that you mentioned.
But if I use the link on the Google Search that I used to locate the article, I get through without having to register.
I wonder why it does that?

[TexasKamaAina]

you have to register.

Try http://www.bugmenot.com for password.

[harpu]

Hey Willie, congratulations...I see you finally got a starring role in the new Disney movie...Chicken Little.

AND, Willie, the sky is NOT falling as the tone of your posts are constantly alarming this forum about.

L

[Moonman62]

Can't hide from the upside of insourcing either.

[Ostlandr]

I've been saying the same thing for years.

Interesting how government works. Here in NY, our fine government makes a habit of commissioning expensive studies on various matters. They then ignore the results, do the exact opposite, and- this is the good part- commission yet another expensive study on the same thing.
Repeat ad infinitum.

[quantim]

I wonder why it does that?

It's called a cache.  

Not to be confused with 'cash,' a free-market capitalist term.

[A. Pole]

"[...]But the report that the Commerce Department issued quietly, and which was recently obtained by Business Week, shows nothing of the sort. It's a Pollyana-ish 12-page document -- that's $27,500 per page -- that does little more than parrot earlier reports by business groups. It concludes, with the sophistication of an undergraduate term paper, that outsourcing is nothing but good for the U.S. economy. There they are, your tax dollars at work.[...]"

"Free" trade bump!

[fallujah-nuker]

Thanks, read the article. Found this interesting "...But the report that the Commerce Department issued quietly, and which was recently obtained by Business Week, shows nothing of the sort. It's a Pollyanaish 12-page document -- that's $27,500 per page..."

I think we could get the cost per page down a bit if we outsourced a few Commerce Department bureaucrats. Whats good for the goose is sauce for the gander.

[ovrtaxt]

Offshoring jobs is the logical response to an oppressivetax system that penalizes job creation and successful investing.

Good reason to pass the FairTax.

[ExitPurgamentum]

Pulling the wool over Americans' eyes once again.

What does this suppose to mean? Are you suggesting that the Bush administration is constantly lying to the American peope?

Are you sure you are on the right forum? Such smug remarks would go much better on DU.

[ExitPurgamentum]

Pulling the wool over Americans' eyes once again.

Now that I have read the article, I would like to ask for a clarification: what specifically in the article have you seen to make the above-quoted accusation?

[Willie Green]

What does this suppose to mean? Are you suggesting that the Bush administration is constantly lying to the American peope?

I wouldn't say "constantly".
But often enough to indicate a clear pattern of deceit.

USDA plants its own news
McJobs mistake / Sorry, but burger flipping isn't manufacturing
Backdrop Hides `Made in China' Labels

Are you sure you are on the right forum?

Yep.

Such smug remarks would go much better on DU.

(((yawn))) Excuse me... did you say something newbie?

[lentulusgracchus]

Good reason to pass the FairTax.

Not really. Not unless it was 1930 and everyone was making pretty close to the same kind of money.

I mean, I'd like to make enough money that I could live and pay taxes on about 4% of it and invest the rest and pay no taxes on that......that'd work for me. Probably works for guys like Jay Rockefeller and Bill Gates, too.

What we really need is more taxes on is guys whose FR handles begin with the letter "o".

That sounds fair to me.

[TXBSAFH]

I have yet to see a bit of it.

[drlevy88]

when you invest, the money doesn't just go sit in a cookie jar. that money would mean more commerce, more jobs, which means more taxes.