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~ Saturday, February 28, 2004
PRESS RELEASE (PRWEB Newswire) East Valley Living - Your Guide the the East Valley - Welcomes Three New Writers as Regularly EVliving.com Featured Columnists. ~ Friday, February 27, 2004
Fortune.com - Fast Forward - Rage Against Offshoring Is Very Real: "DAVID KIRKPATRICK Rage Against Offshoring Is Very Real Most of America's unemployed seem to think their situation is due to companies sending jobs overseas. FORTUNE Wednesday, February 18, 2004 By David Kirkpatrick To rephrase my opening sentence of last week: Seldom have so many been so angry at a writer they felt understood so little. My column on the offshoring of jobs (online last week [www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704, 588382,00.html] and in the current issue of FORTUNE) elicited the biggest outpouring of letters ever. While a reasonable number of readers commended my view that the trend may not be damaging to the economy, far more called me an idiot or worse. " PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040226.html Here is my solution to adding jobs to the jobless recovery, to bringing Silicon Valley back to life, and to taking outsourcing and offshoring off the front page. Next week, Every venture capital firm in America should take five percent of its available funds and invest that money with best deals they’ve all had sitting on their desks for months. It doesn’t matter what the startups are. Give them the darned money, which I calculate to be about $5 billion spread across a thousand new companies. It isn’t tax money, government money, money taken away from education or Medicare. Its just money that was already intended for high-tech investment –- money that probably would have been lost anyway. INVEST IT! Stop trying to pretend you are so smart or that your input and board membership really makes a difference (it doesn’t -– you heard it here first) and write the checks Guest opinion: Loss of good jobs hits Montanans hard - billingsgazette.com: "Guest opinion: Loss of good jobs hits Montanans hard By KEN TREIB United Mine Workers If you have lived in Montana for at least a year or so, chances are you know someone like Steve Boyer, a nine-year employee of Peabody Coal/ Big Sky Mine who was laid off when Big Sky closed its mine at Colstrip at the end of December. Steve and several of his fellow brothers and sister miners were forced to join the ranks of the unemployed, through no fault of their own. This has put a hardship on all the communities where these miners live as a result. Getting back to work Steve wants to get back to work. Despite the recent rosy news about the national economy, the fact is too many of us have been laid off or have seen friends and family bring home a pink slip because plants and mines are closing or moving overseas. And those of us who do get new jobs find that they are rarely as good as the ones we lost. Fewer manufacturing jobs mean less revenue for our schools, local business and the community. And we're not alone. The whole country has seen persistent layoffs, job losses and the resulting economic fallout for workers and our communities. " bernie :: media :: Poll: Free Trade Loses Backers Poll: Free Trade Loses Backers by Peronet Despeignes High-income Americans have lost much of their enthusiasm for free trade as they perceive their own jobs threatened by white-collar workers in China, India and other countries, according to data from a survey of views on trade. (Related item: Read the entire study) The survey by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes is one of the most comprehensive U.S. polls on trade issues. It found that support for free trade fell in most income groups from 1999 to 2004, but dropped most rapidly among high-income respondents — the very group that registered the strongest support for free trade in the past. "Free trade" means the removal of barriers such as tariffs that restrict international trade. (Related story: Income confers no immunity as jobs migrate) The PIPA poll shows that among Americans making more than $100,000 a year, support for actively promoting more free trade collapsed from 57% to less than half that, 28%. There were smaller drops, averaging less than 7 percentage points, in income brackets below $70,000, where support for free trade was already weaker. ~ Thursday, February 26, 2004
NewsMax.com: Inside Cover Story: "Kerry's Wife a 'Benedict Arnold CEO'? One of Sen. John Kerry's favorite stump speech tag lines these days is a blast at 'Benedict Arnold CEOs [who] send American jobs overseas.' But he never quite gets around to mentioning his wife's connection to the Heinz Foods empire, which seems to be leading the pack in exporting jobs from America into the Third World. Reporting for Tech Central Station, James Glassman revealed Wednesday, 'The Kerry family business, H.J. Heinz Co. of Pittsburgh, operates 22 factories in the United States and 57 in foreign countries.'" Scots get Clinton library work - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics: "Scots get Clinton library work LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ?4 While Democratic presidential candidates complain that too many jobs are going overseas, the last Democrat to hold the office is having a Scottish firm build nearly $1 million worth of cabinets for his presidential library. " Job creation . . . or dissipation? - The Washington Times: Commentary: "Job creation . . . or dissipation? By Paul Craig Roberts The dollar keeps going down, and the trade deficit keeps going up. Economists and reporters explain this in terms of American appetite for foreign goods outstripping overseas demand for U.S. goods. There is another explanation, one perhaps closer to the truth. Americans are buying the same goods as in the past made by the same U.S. multinational corporations ?4 only the goods are no longer made in the United States. Their production has been outsourced or offshored to Asia. The same goods now count as imports, because they are produced offshore. A country cannot close its trade deficit if its economy is being moved offshore. Offshore production hits the trade deficit from both ends: Goods once produced domestically become imports, and as production moves offshore the ability to export declines. When a U.S. business moves a factory to China, that factory's products cease to be potential exports and become imports. " ~ Tuesday, February 24, 2004
VDARE.com: 02/18/04 - Moving Our Economy Offshore Moving Our Economy Offshore By Paul Craig Roberts The dollar keeps going down, and the trade deficit keeps going up. Economists and reporters explain this in terms of American appetite for foreign goods outstripping overseas demand for U.S. goods. There is another explanation, one perhaps closer to the truth. Americans are buying the same goods as in the past made by the same U.S. multinational corporations—only the goods are no longer made in the United States. Their production has been outsourced or offshored to Asia. The same goods now count as imports, because they are produced offshore. ~ Sunday, February 22, 2004
Future U.S. workforce to be smaller: "Future U.S. workforce to be smaller Associated Press Feb. 22, 2004 12:00 AM The nation's future workforce will be smaller and more diverse, more mobile and more vulnerable to global competition, according to a study conducted for the Labor Department. Shifting demographics, advances in technology and increases in global trade are the strongest forces shaping the world of work, with big changes on the horizon for workers and employers, said the study by Rand Corp., a think tank based in Santa Monica, Calif." | |
