The U.S. Must 'Reshore', Not Offshore Jobs: The money, people, training and jobs are all there.

RCM ^ | 12/22/2015 | Chase Norlin

[SeekAndFind]

Every major presidential candidate, even those most beholden to Wall Street, says he or she opposes the offshoring of American jobs. Like vows to "defeat ISIS" and "repair our crumbling infrastructure," the nationalist cri de couer against "shipping jobs overseas" has become a bipartisan catchphrase of the 2016 race. But political rhetoric is one thing and economic reality is another. Offshoring has become an effective way for U.S. companies to build and manage their products and services.

Look at Apple Computer. Except for the Mac Pro personal computer, possibly the best company in the history of American business doesn't produce its computers, smartphones, and other gadgets domestically. Its components are sourced throughout the world and assembled in China. Sure, Apple's products and intellectual property are designed at home. Yet hundreds of thousands of jobs are created abroad just for the firm's sprawling supply chain.

Apple is not alone. In July, Microsoft's CEO announced the firm would lay off 18,000 of its workers. As a Silicon-Valley CEO and Bay Area citizen, I see the same scene over and over. The lines to buy the hippest tech gear run around the corner. Yet the unemployment lines in the same neighborhood for middle-class jobs are long too.

Those of us in the tech industry need to be honest: We are creating a world where a handful of senior workers manage a massive low-cost labor source overseas to produce and manage our products and services.

Many Silicon-Valley officials complain about a "talent shortage." In reality, the shortage is confined to elite programmers who know "Ruby on Rails" or "Full Stack." Sure, the demand for these positions is strong, but even if we filled them, our jobless rate would not go down much. Only a handful of people can afford to take a boot camp

[Dilbert San Diego]

The offshoring and exporting of American industry is nothing new. Lots of this happened in the ‘90s, when Bill Clinton was president. Hillary should be grilled about what she and her husband did about these issues back then.

[AuntB]

Trump is the only candidate I see pushing to bring back jobs to the USA shores!

Here:

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/tax-reform
and
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/us-china-trade-reform

[Buckeye McFrog]

An underlooked but MAJOR reason why Trump is doing so well.
The Average Joe has absolutely HAD it with globalist trade agreements. Trump appears the best vehicle to short-circuit them.

[DannyTN]

He's an idiot!

He wants to spend money to train people for jobs that will just be off-shored. He acknowledges that tariffs are an option but he rejects those and chooses more government spending that does nothing to stop the off-shoring.

Tariffs create government revenue not spending, even as they create the environment for jobs to return to the U.S.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I completely agree.

America’s entire political establishment is sold out.

Every one of them.

[DannyTN]

And to be sure, not everyone is trainable for high tech jobs. We need some lower tech jobs for many of our unemployed.

[gspurlock]

The only way to bring jobs back is to dramatically reduce or eliminate the suffocating regulation faced by companies in the U.S. They have to cut costs somewhere.

[PIF]

During Clinton’s time, if you remember - it was not just offshoring of jobs, but the wholesale export of factories lock, stock, and barrel. The Clinton’s led the charge to achieve the de-industrialization of the US in the name of more livable cities, cleaner water and air, and out of a Third Way (the then latest Communist thought) sense that an industrial America was unfair to the rest of the world.

And so it was - we now have cleaner water and air, our cities (with a few notable exceptions) are more livable (ignoring the high crime and murder rates) while the rest of the world (mainly China) has caught up to us in industrialization - the Clinton dream come true. All of this comes with the added bonuses of more people dependent on government with 93 million citizens (not counting the millions of Chinese and Hispanic undocumented Democrats) sitting it out entirely collecting their $34,000 plus in cash and benefits. Who needs all those stinkin’ jobs anyway?

If elected this time around, I’m sure the Clintons can improve on their previous track record. Instituting a totalitarian socialist dictatorship would be an excellent beginning. Bill might be a bit edgy not being able to sell military secrets for cash; between all those he sold last time and Obama’s draconian military budget cuts there is precious little new left to sell. They will just have to make due by bilking foreigners out of billions for access while fattening their worldwide ‘Fund’.

[Myrddin]

Only a handful of people can afford to take a boot camp

That's a familiar whine. If you allow your skills to stagnate, you're going to be a useless resource to bid and execute technical contracts. You have to spend some of your own time and money to keep up with the technical advancements. I just spent $99 with the egghead.io site to catch up on current Javascript development tools and techniques. It's a one-year "all you can eat" access to their video tutorials. Technical publishers offer 50% off "Deal of the Day" on current books. I have over 500 PDF titles accrued. Some I need immediately. Some are purchased with future needs in mind. Allowing your skills to stagnate is the path to the unemployment line.

[CPT Clay]

Might be worth a read.

[Haddit]

Thanks for the post. I was beginning to think nobody else could see what was going on. Everything that is happening is orchestrated.

For a sanctuary city to exist requires the consent of a city council, police chief, mayor, governor, judges, senators and congressmen and the president.

We people don’t have a decision in laws anymore, the few we do vote into existence are overturned by a judge. Our representatives all seem intent on helping non-citizens and our laws are made by government agencies, judges, mayors, governors and the president without going thru congress but with congress’s consent.

The desire to have sustainable cities was cited by the Department of Transportation in 2008 where they admit that Americans don’t want to live in apartment buildings and new immigrants do. They admit that new immigrants will embrace public transportation and give up their cars.

The argument for climate change and CO2 as a culprit is lost when you consider that half of Los Angeles’s smog comes from container ships and that trucks are one eighth of America’s vehicles but produce 20 percent of our dirty air.

These people must think we are too ignorant to realize that we share the same atmosphere as a polluting China or India or that our manufacturing is much cleaner than theirs.

[PIF]

You are welcome. BTW most of the atmospheric pollution over the US comes from China and to some extent from Russia as the prevailing winds carry the stuff westward. People see satellite images of polutuon over the US and think it rises straight up, but then were would we be without the LIV and the LIP(ublic)?

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