"Michael Bryant" wrote in message
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From: (Brian)

My mistake. I thought the subject was a Bush policy. You can
bash
Clinton all you want for all the good it will do now.


Sorry, my post this early morn was mis-typed. It is Bush, not
Clinton, that is
encouraging the outsourcing of US jobs.

Anyone with the minimal effort to check a URL could see that it was
Bush. Check
this URL:


http://www.mcgladrey-family.us/kayne...h_permits_outs
ourcing.html

(For those with not enough time to click a link

Bush Permits Outsourcing

"Higher skilled jobs are going away," said Pricilla Tate, Director
of the
Technology Managers Forum, a New York-based group representing IT
executives at
large companies. "There are people who will not get jobs in the IT
industry
again -- they just have been replaced." And the President isn't
going to do a
thing about it.
ComuterWorld is running a story titled "Bush Administration Won't
Impede
Offshore Outsourcing". While it's fully within the power of the
President to
make it harder for companies to outsource work to offshore firms,
there are no
plans to. Instead of providing a solution, Chris Israel, a deputy
assistant
secretary at the U.S. Department of Commerce, said that "the answer
to economic
challenges is growth and innovation."
Growth and innovation. When Detroit and Japan went toe-to-toe over
auto
manufacturing, how quickly did growth and innovation help? Ten
years? Twenty
years? Or how about textile manufacturing, with the United States
going up
against China and other countries with poor human rights records?
The truth is
that the manufacturing jobs went overseas and didn't come back. How
long can
skilled workers remain unemployed?
Growth and innovation aren't standing well in the face of greed and
commoditization. Many of the IT workers in the United States created
processes
and technologies that have enabled the globalization of information
technology,
and they've lost their jobs as a result. They weren't rewarded for
their
innovation.
The Gartner Group predicted that ten percent of all IT jobs are
going offshore
in 2004. Despite the failing economy, despite all the indicators
that this is a
crisis in the making, George Bush isn't doing a thing to prevent
jobs going
overseas. His economic policy of tax cuts for the rich did not
create jobs, and
his economic policy of tax cuts for parents did not create jobs.
He's not even
attempting to set guidelines for trade agreements based on
comparable workers
rights and human rights. His economic policy is a failure, and shows
that he is
incapable of helping to retain the jobs we have, even as more jobs
are lost."

Any evidence to the contrary? No? I wonder why not?


Interesting. Pardon the interruption, but I'm curious as to why you
equate doing nothing to -discourage- outsourcing (assuming that's the
case) with -encouraging- outsourcing. They are not the same,
obviously. The alternative is protectionism, which most who support
a global economy oppose.