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Daniel Soong waited in line at the dingy, low-ceilinged Employment Development Department
in Pleasant Hill, hoping to find some clerical work or any kind of work
at all. At 30, this is not where the thin, neatly dressed computer programmer
expected to be. Nor did he expect, after seven years in the technology
industry, to have to move back into his parents' Pleasanton house. |
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Deal with it, American workers: In the name of the almighty profit, corporations have begun to ship millions of knowledge jobs to foreign shores, where labor is an irresistible bargain and will remain so for a generation or longer. Workers in the trenches of information systems and information technology may have the most to fear. "If you're in IS or IT and you don't assume you'll be out of work in six months, you're a fool" full article > |
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| Economists are Making a Grave Mistake The U.S. is increasingly relying on other nations to provide basic and important goods and services that keep our nation running. Actual production of the goods, services, and knowledge that consumers, businesses, and the military rely on are done by other nations in increasing levels. We are becoming a nation of owners, managers, and marketers that no longer know how to work the front lines. "Real work" is not being done in the US anymore. Corporate bosses bicker in boardrooms over whether blow-dryers should be beige or translucent instead of invent, improve, or manufacture blow-dryer.
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BOOK With the pay of corporate CEOs at historical highs and American job creation at the lowest level since the Depression, corporations are laying off Americans-blue-collar factory workers and white-collar professionals alike-purely to cut costs. Thousands of quality jobs are lost every month, jobs that will be performed by people in China, India, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere at a fraction of what American workers earn. Most important, he reveals how Corporate America isn't doing all this on its own. Big Business and Washington are working together, trading our nation's livelihood for short-term gains while they undermine our very way of life. A stirring call to arms, EXPORTING AMERICA tells us what we can do to save not only our jobs and our economy, but the American Dream itself. |
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more... Find out which companies are outsourcing jobs overseas |
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Manufacturing
and computer programming jobs are leaving the U.S. for lower-cost countries
such as China and India. If a country or terrorist group wanted to attack
the U.S., rather than use missiles or bombs aimed at the continent, an
enemy only has to disrupt the flow of goods and services coming across
the ocean. They could cut the high-speed cables that run along the bottom
of the ocean, making international internet and phone communications difficult
and expensive. They could fire regular military missiles at cargo ships
carrying goods to the US from China. The US economy could be crippled.
