[samuel_adams_us]

There are hundreds more of your fellow citizens on this list. Hello Mr. President, we are paying your salary, are you listening? If not, it doesn't matter, salary or not, we vote.

[LS]

Um, your big "buy American" push in the 1980s was a joke. What HELPED (along with lower taxes) to revitalize the economy was that U.S. industry (especially cars, steel, and IT) got so competitive because of the jobs it laid off that it could afford to grow again. Ever hear of Nucor Steel? Probably not. While all the attention was on U.S. Steel's "downsizing," Nucor was creating the world's most efficient plants and the first truly integrated steel rolling mill using scrap iron as a raw material. Nucor's management to plant ratio was LESS THAN ONE. That's good. It means that you don't have layers of white collar bureaucrats between the front office and the assembly line, making products more effective. Nucor's steel output and overseas sales rose, just as did hundreds of IT/telecom firms that were relatively unregulated and which were not "smokestack industries." While the rust belt people complained about losing their jobs, a whole new wave of Americans were getting jobs that didn't even exist ten years before.

The same thing is happening now, for those not obsessed with India.

[tkathy]

This is the making of the largest national crisis in modern times other than the wars.

[Semper Paratus]

AFL-CIO is pressuring Congress on the abuses to the 2 tmeporary work visa programs.

Just one well publicized indictment of a major company by the Justice Department for visa abuse would 1) Scare others into compliance, and 2) take away the issue from dems.

[dfwgator]

The government will have just about as much luck stopping offshoring as the RIAA has with stopping the downloading of music.

[DugwayDuke]

Do you think you have a right to a job?

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

It is easier to read the article from the link provided and I have copied here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/767146.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1

Within this article are the following links to 2 other recent MSNBC articles on this topic:

"Jobs Go Global"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/947478.asp

"Men at Overwork"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/946725.asp

[mhking]

Don't let anyone fool you. This is going to be the key issue of the 2004 election. Not race, not gay marriage, not illegal immigration, and barring a new attack, not even the war.

Now that America is being outsourced into oblivion, the clamor will increase, calling on the Administration to find a way to stop the hemmoraging of jobs to offshore.

And while those jobs continue to move to Bangalore or Mumbai or Delhi, the Democratic candidates (read Hillary) will promise to insulate Americans from the pain like an opiate.

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[hotdogjones]

It is the cost of living that has forced people to ask for higher wages. As result wages in the US have gotton out of control and corporations are shipping work overseas. Expect a major real estate crash, because as more white collar workers can't find work or forced to take lower paying jobs at walmarts they will be able to afford less and dump their expensive mortgages on the housing market. The adjustment will be painfull. I call it the deflation adjustment. Once wages in the US go down, work will come back to the us. Look at the German car mfg corporations opening up plants in the us.

Regardless of who is in office (repub or dem) there is nothing they can do. We had a stock market bubble, real estate bubble, white collar wage bubble. Now they are popping.

http://www.comstockfunds.com/index.cfm?act=Newsletter.cfm&category=Market%20Commentary&newsletterid=1015&menugroup=Home&aol=1

[af_vet_rr]

Find out who outsources and who doesn’t and support those who support America by hiring Americans.

Which is rapidly coming down to mom-and-pop businesses.

I try very hard to support local businesses, rather than chains, because I know those chain stores have, at some point, probably outsourced something overseas, but it's getting harder and harder to do-so, and even the mom-and-pop/local businesses are probably selling goods that were made overseas.

Ugh. At least they haven't outsourced the military (well they've hired plenty of civilian contractors to free up personnel for other duties, but it's not quite that bad yet).

[Constitutional Patriot]

"Find out who outsources and who doesn’t and support those who support America by hiring Americans."

This can work if enough Americans participate. It may not bring the jobs back, but it will punish the companies that are profiting from low cost foreign labor.

[VadeRetro]

Hello Mr. President, we are paying your salary, are you listening?

He's listening, yes. To India. He's assured them his administration plans to do nothing.

[ChemistCat]

ping

[thackney]

BTTT

[Doodle]

I am constantly amazed that a site named Free Republic has so many members who feel so menaced by freedom.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Why isn’t Congress listening?

Because no matter how loud you yell or how many letters you write...They Don't Care.

They got theirs. They have their ticket on the Gravy Train. As long as they can keep getting elected...they're ok with just about anything. Who do you think all of these immigrants that they let into the country to take our jobs are gonna vote for?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Find out who outsources and who doesn’t and support those who support America by hiring Americans.

Now there's an idea that I hope catches on! And it'll work.

[cherry_bomb88]

PING.....

Big '88 & AdSimp, did we not have this conversation with our good friend at the ballgame last Sunday????

[Alas Babylon!]

BFL...

[Paulus Invictus]

Yeah but, who are you going to vote for? The RATS are said believe the same thing about this issue and do nothing about it either. Both parties also love illegal immigration. Add outsourcing to this and America is on its merry way out of business.

[foreverfree]

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