A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went Overseas

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[Archangelsk]

Whoops, start your statistical databases.

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[Archangelsk]

And before anyone gets all prehistoric, consider the cost of retraining the skilled workers (engineers, accountants, etc.) who have been displaced and who is going to bear the cost.

[TopDog2]

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[Texas Eagle]

They didn't "went" overseas. They were forced to relocate because of all the constraints and costs Liberalism has imposed on them and I don't blame them.

Payroll taxes, mandatory health insurance, OSHA regulations, EPA regulations, hiring regulations, firing regulations, worker's comp, disability, and hundreds of other government imposed sanctions on businesses is what is causing these companies to bug out.

You ever wonder why so few Liberals are entrepreneurs? Because they know damn well just how many ludicrous hurdles there are for them to jump just to keep a government agency or lawyer from coming in and relieving them from every penny they've ever earned.

Hypocrites. We need to outsource Liberalism.

[WOSG]

Already posted ..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995166/posts

[John Jorsett]

The answer is simple: require employers to hire 1 new worker for every, oh, 20 they have now. At a living wage, of course. Presto, unemployment vanishes.

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If you had done a search you would have found the article already posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/995166/posts

[Prodigal Son]

My job didn't go anywhere. My job belongs to me. I was born with it. Nobody can send it away. I take it with me everywhere.

[camas]

how much of jobs going overseas belongs in the unions' lap?

i remember back in the late 1980s lockheed ship workers went on strike. after a few weeks the union went to the democRATs in olympia and more or less demanded unemployment benefits be given to the strikers. after a couple of days lockheed said go ahead and give it to the workers as we are going to sell everything and shut down.

lots of high paying jobs were lost.

[Lael]

A Missing Statistic: U.S. Jobs That Went Overseas

Bush is a one termer...(see my tag line)

[Jorge]

They didn't "went" overseas. They were forced to relocate because of all the constraints and costs Liberalism has imposed on them and I don't blame them.

Payroll taxes, mandatory health insurance, OSHA regulations, EPA regulations, hiring regulations, firing regulations, worker's comp, disability, and hundreds of other government imposed sanctions on businesses is what is causing these companies to bug out.

Not to mention out of control litigation in this country which is jacking up the cost of doing business here as well.

Lawyers are destroying this country.

[Harlequin]

Excuse me? We had the same conditions here 100 years ago that the overseas employers have now. Is it your contention that we (you and I, buddy) should give up the American Way of life because it is cheaper for CORPORATIONS?

Get a grip.

[Texas Eagle]

Not to mention out of control litigation in this country which is jacking up the cost of doing business here as well.

Amen.

[Texas Eagle]

A)We had the same conditions here 100 years ago that the overseas employers have now.

Um, it is no longer 100 years ago.

B) Is it your contention that we (you and I, buddy) should give up the American Way of life because it is cheaper for CORPORATIONS?

No. Wait. Because what is cheaper for CORPORATIONS?

[Harlequin]

And your point would be....?

[tinamina]

Someone has to make it clear in the public arena what is going on here. Ok, in Silicon Valley you are a computer engineer and you make a measly $100,000, barely enough to get by there unless you live in a cheap apartment. Your employer pays $7650 in Social Security and Medicare taxes, $9000 for Worker's Comp, $6000 or so in health insurance, making the minimum your employer has to pay out just for you(not including things like unemployment insurance) $122,650. If your employer can get the same job done in India or China for $3000, which one would he choose? If the employer is listed on the stock exchange, he is there to make profits for the stockholders, not to make employees happy. Which is more profitable for the stock holders? No wonder the stock market is going up despite the loss of jobs.

[FR_addict]

Bump

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Your Socialist mantra tagline is oh, so clever. Let me guess, you’re a Plagiarism major.

Be very worried about your inability to compete in the international marketplace.

But don’t dwell upon those high paid workers from India. Given your demonstrated ability to regurgitate socialist rhetoric; a parrot is more likely to replace you for the wages of stale crackers.

For the rest of us, those who carefully chose our vocation and who utilize critical thinking skills; we understand that wages are based upon the value an employee brings to an organization. Each day one should ask their self, is my employer better off by keeping me well paid, or is the employer better off by hiring someone else?

[Elliott Jackalope]

Your tag line is quite similar to mine. Coincidence?