[College Repub]

This is a HORRIBLE market. I just graduated and was gettnig nowhere with resumes and cover letters in the past 2.5 months. I got a job offer last Thursday for a position. I'll be making 35-40 in a realted field. Not bad. All my friends have jobs too! Most of them got them through networking though. It's tough out there. But hard work and perserverence will pay off. IF you have a liberal arts degree it can be tougher. I had a B.S in Business Admin with a concentration in Marketing.

[lelio]

"But instead of paying six-figure salaries to trained workers in America, more companies are shelling out $10,000 to $20,000 to get cheaper employees an ocean away."

Ready for the onslaught of "This is just the liberal media talking up a minor economic blip"?

[College Repub]

ping to the post above this

[Edison]

What a lot of Americans don't know is that some of the jobs that went to Mexico after NAFTA are now being moved to China. Philips Electonics moved their TV assembly to Mexico and recently laid off the $80.00 a week employees to move the plant to China. Makes one wonder what they are paying "The Reds".

Wow, nobody uses that term anymore. Kind of fun pulling it out and using it in public.

Once the jobs were out of the US proper who would care if they moved again.

Edison

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Want jobs? Then join me in a year long protest. Between now and Jan.1, stock up on items you will need for the coming year...shoes, shirts, gifts, etc. Beginning Jan.1, 2004 do not buy a SINGLE good of anykind other than food and household supplies. THAT will send the message. Drastic times call for drastic measures.

Or like the President said, "retrain." To what?, Mr. President. What can we train for that you and your Free Trade lunatics won't be giving away in the near future?

[tkathy]

The only way to fight this is with economic boycotts.

[George W. Bush]

I wonder if the Dims will try to use the outsourcing scare to help their party next year.

It's pretty hot for them to touch. But it could round up a lot of votes.

It would work best for Gephart or Dean. Basically, for whatever candidate has the guts to try it first. Combined with a brave stand on immigration, it could create quite a stir even if the economy generally recovers.

[harpseal]

Ping before I go out.

On or off this list let me know

[Destructor]

It'll be fun to see these dislocated workers form their own companies, and ultimately kick the collective asses of those old, established companies that have sold us out!

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

"Mexico's workers now are in a panic over losing their NAFTA-generated manufacturing jobs to China, the world's new global manufacturing center."

Many of these unemployed are no doubt finding their way north, where they are finding new employment, along with health, education and welfare benefits in the U.S.