[Walkin Man]

Challenger said one of the main factors for the job cuts in January was an increase of employers eliminating jobs in the United States and shifting to service providers in India, China and the Philippines among other countries.

So-called "Free Trade" is great isn't it?

Until your biggest export becomes jobs anyway.

[clamper1797]

Looks like all those employment "gains" are going away ... with the holiday (temp) jobs. gee ... go figure

[EagleMamaMT]

Shhh...mustn't wake up the sleeping populace! After all, these are just jobs we Americans don't want, ya know!/(sarcasm)

[azhenfud]

The question was recently asked why was there profits on Wall Street when job losses are continually soaring.

Corporate profits and domestic employment stability are no longer synonymous.

Many point to Wall Street numbers and claim the economy is growing, but short-sightedly miss the fact that just because a company declares a profit - a profit temporarily made by moving a job out of the US - does not mean the standard of living in the US is remaining stable, nor that the continuation of those profits are secure.

[freeeee]

America continues its slide into third world nation status, and people squander their efforts throwing a fit over Janet Jackson's boob.

Compare the number of posts on this thread to any of the superbowl threads.

[pabianice]

Until self employment numbers are counted, "unemployment numbers" will remain garbage.

[Monty22]

If Bush doesn't do something about this, his job will be outsourced to Kerry.

[38special]

I know 5 people personally who are currently unemployed and two are siblings. In fact a good friend of mine, who is a mechanical engineer btw, was just laid off this past friday by a small energy firm. My brother, an IBEW union electrician, has now run out of unemployment benefits (9 months) but he is, according to him, "moving up the list" for the few incoming job calls. My sister completed her contract and is between jobs; she doesn't seem to be too worried, however. My friend in Phoenix was let go from his job as a project manager for some sort of convention burea just before christmas and is looking for employment. My wife's friend is recently divorced and is having difficulty re-entering the workforce, though she has few marketable skills. Myself, I was laid off almost two years ago but found a good job within two months of unemployment. I guess I am one of the lucky ones. The problem is real and is hitting close to home. :--(

[GraniteStateConservative]

Can we outsource Congress and the WH? I bet we could get the same level of work done more cheaply.

[RaceBannon]

Make sure you keep repeating the mantra!

The problem is not jobs leaving the country, it is not capital equipment leaving the country, the problem is not intellectual property leaving the country, the problem is not contracts going to communistic/fascistic/socialistic government run countries that prop up their companies with government funds to defer losses that the US companies cannot compete against...

THE PROBLEM IS YOUR ATTITUDE ABOUT IT!! JUST KEEP TELLING YOURSELF THINGS WILL GET BETTER AND THEY WILL!

[diamondjoe]

And what, pray tell, is the President's response to this? Nothing. He has not said one freaking thing about outsourcing. I don't think Kerry has a better solution, but Kerry isn't going to get blamed by voters when they see how many jobs have fled overseas--the man at the helm will. As long as Kerry can TALK a good game, he'll be doing far more (and far better) than Bush has.

[mystery-ak]

I hope this isn't what you have been waiting for.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Jobs come from the government. In fact they are "created" by the government. If jobs or "The Economy" is bad, it's the government's fault. The President, by the way, is the "Economy Czar". That's his main job: to make "The Economy" good. It's in the Constitution.

Also if someone gets laid off and then spents 9 months collecting unemployment checks and waiting for a job to open up in the exact same industry as their previous job, pretending that they CAN'T POSSIBLY work in any other industry than the one they were just working in, rather than going down to McDonald's or Walmart or the local frozen yogurt shop or wherever to look for a job, or offering to tutor or do some other informal/part-time work, that's a sign of how desperate they are rather than a sign of how comfortable we all have it that we've made a system that allows us to survive for 6 or 9 or 12 months or even longer with no job whatsoever, and so we should all feel sorry for them. And, of course, we should always, always, always remember to blame the President - I mean, Economy Czar. All good things come from big daddy President.

Did I miss anything?

[Dallas59]

Are foriegn companies coming here to hire Americans?

[waterstraat]

If you keep sending american jobs to asia, you are going to breed civil discontent, political upheaval, and you will have a federal budget and balance of trade deficit.

The "free traders" are asking for trouble, and they will get it.

Bush now has about 6 months left to get those jobs and factories back from asia. I warned him 2 years ago, and he still hasnt done anything.

[JohnnyZ]

WHAT REUTERS LEFT OUT

• January is ALWAYS a big month for announcements of job cuts.
• This year's cuts are much lower than last January's.

  How do they get away with this garbage?

[Paul C. Jesup]

So-called "Free Trade" is great isn't it?

(saracasm) This isn't Free Trade, it's a hose job...

[1rudeboy]

So-called "Free Trade" is great isn't it?

Since you are asking, and implying that the only way to keep Americans working is to increase the cost of doing business here, then it is certainly "greater" than accelerating the rate at which companies depart.

[RnMomof7]

I recently heard that now attorneys and para legals jobs are now being outsourced.

So it has now moved from manufacturing to High tech and then accounting and now law.

I can see the day when schools only have minimum wage aides to watch a class that is being taught by a computer or by a TV .

There is no job that is sacred

[bvw]

Well, gee, they were bad jobs. Makers of evil "high-carb" foods. At least so some would have around here.

[templar]

It's only a hundred thousand jobs. At that rate, should it remain constant, that's only 1.2 million jobs this year. But, then, January is a usually a slow month, maybe it'll pick up steam as the year progresses.