Amicus, are you against creating 2-5 MILLION jobs for Americans?

[LJ_Reloaded]

2 million: the estimate given by the US Chamber of Commerce regarding the number of jobs in America lost to offshoring.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/gop-chamber-of-commerce_n_741970.html?view=print

"In 2004, Chamber head Tom Donohue made the case that outsourcing shouldn't be a concern because only "two, maybe three million jobs, maybe four" would be lost."

5.6 million: the number of jobs that EPI estimates has been lost due to offshoring.

http://epi.3cdn.net/58f222c3caaded4...epi.3cdn.net/58f222c3caaded4953_r8m6iv1t8.pdf



So there you are. Are you for 2-5 million Americans getting put back to work or are you for keeping them unemployed? Speak up and be counted!

 

[Stella_Omega]

Like it makes a damn bit of difference what amicus thinks.

Are you writing anything sexy?

 

[Dragonlipz]

Like it makes a damn bit of difference what amicus thinks.

Are you writing anything sexy?

he has to take off his shoes (and his socks!) to count that high

 

[amicus]

2 million: the estimate given by the US Chamber of Commerce regarding the number of jobs in America lost to offshoring.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/28/gop-chamber-of-commerce_n_741970.html?view=print

"In 2004, Chamber head Tom Donohue made the case that outsourcing shouldn't be a concern because only "two, maybe three million jobs, maybe four" would be lost."

5.6 million: the number of jobs that EPI estimates has been lost due to offshoring.

http://epi.3cdn.net/58f222c3caaded4...epi.3cdn.net/58f222c3caaded4953_r8m6iv1t8.pdf



So there you are. Are you for 2-5 million Americans getting put back to work or are you for keeping them unemployed? Speak up and be counted!

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I will not even pretend to educate you; you have your faith and ur stickin' to it; who cares?

But for others who don't understand the loss of jobs in manufacturing and are tired of the polemics of Marxism, I offer the following:

There was a time in our history when beautiful sailing vessels sailed the deep blue sea with cargoes from all over the world. Those were hearty and hardy men who sailed the brine, climbed the masts, set the sails and weathered the storms...all to earn a living, a hard life indeed and a proud one.

Along came the invention of the coal fired steam engine and those beautiful ships and all the men suddenly were without employment.

There was a great business of whaling to supply oil for lamps until natural gas and electricity condemned that industry to obsolescence, more unemployed tradesmen.

Think of all the horse breeders and harnessmakers and carriage makers and blacksmiths that went unemployed when the automobile appeared.

And the companies that made typewriters when the computer keyboard; not one exists today.

An overview displays cultural and societal changes that naturally develop as technolgy changes and progress happens.

The transitions from agricultural to manufacturing to service industry is a natural event in the evolution of supply and demand.

How could it be possible to build automobiles in Japan, ship them to the United States and sell them cheaper than American made products? Labor costs. Labor consumes about 80% of the cost of producing a single car.

How is it possible to mine iron ore, produce iron and steel products and ship them the the United States at a lower price than those produced in the US?

Labor costs again, promoted by Labor Unions, that have increased the wages of American manufacturing workers, increased the benefits of health and pension benefits, vacation and working schedules...the Unions priced American workers out of the world market and Steeltown is no more.

Immigrant labor, Mexicans, every hotel and motel along the entire west coast is staffed by Mexican laborers who will do the work at a lower wage than Americans, if the Yanks will take the jobs at all.

Even the McDonalds and Burger Kings, if you bother to look, are staffed by immigrants, some legal, some not...and they work for their money, two or three jobs, they live ten to fifteen in an apartment and save their earnings for those back in Mexico, or to invest in their own business's, just like the Vietnamese did not so long ago...

America, being what it is, a land of immigrants, is always in transition. Your truly stupid lack of understanding may sway some who read your tripe, which is the only reason I need respond, to add some truth to your Marxist propaganda.

Your faith is your fault. Grow up; become a man, an independent thinker.

Amicus

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

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I will not even pretend to educate you; you have your faith and ur stickin' to it; who cares?

But for others who don't understand the loss of jobs in manufacturing and are tired of the polemics of Marxism, I offer the following:

There was a time in our history when beautiful sailing vessels sailed the deep blue sea with cargoes from all over the world. Those were hearty and hardy men who sailed the brine, climbed the masts, set the sails and weathered the storms...all to earn a living, a hard life indeed and a proud one.

Error.

FACT: the jobs moving overseas are not jobs that are being replaced by new industries. Manufacturing is still done by people. We have not outgrown manufacturing like we've outgrown the buggy whip. No country in the world will outgrow manufacturing. We are competing against China for manufacturing jobs. We are competing against India for research jobs. We're losing those jobs and nothing is coming to replace them. You, Amicus, cannot in any way explain what is coming to replace them.

America, being what it is, a land of immigrants, is always in transition. Your truly stupid lack of understanding may sway some who read your tripe, which is the only reason I need respond, to add some truth to your Marxist propaganda.

Your dogma is based on utter stupidity and cluelessness.

There are no new industries replacing the ones we've sent overseas. That is a fact that you cannot deny.

The people who are losing jobs to offshoring now have no other work out there to replace it. Yet another fact you cannot deny.

You will run away now because you've been thoroughly schooled AGAIN, Amicunt.