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| Under Trump, US jobs are moving overseas even faster than before | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 1 2017, 11:18 AM (133 Views) | |
| thoughtless | Dec 1 2017, 11:18 AM Post #1 |
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“We’re just shipping company after company after company is leaving this country and leaving jobs behind,” president Donald Trump said on the campaign trail last year. “And I’m going to get it stopped.” So far, not so good. A group that advocates for federal workers says government records show (pdf) more than 10,000 jobs at federal contractors have been sent over overseas since Trump was elected. That’s more than double the average annual amount during Barack Obama’s presidency. The organization, Good Jobs Nation, funded by unions and faith groups, wants the White House to hold these contractors accountable. All told, in the year since Trump was elected, more than 93,000 jobs have been certified by the Department of Labor as lost to outsourcing or trade competition, slightly higher than the average of about 87,000 in the preceding five years. But federal contractors made up 10% of that number, rather than the previous average of 4%. That suggests companies that work for the government like General Motors, Boeing and United Technologies aren’t worried about political repercussions from the man in the White House. LINK |
| Without geometry, life is pointless. | |
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| clone | Dec 1 2017, 11:45 AM Post #2 |
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meanwhile back in the real world... U.S. Manufacturing Expands at Healthy Pace on Production Surge U.S. manufacturing expanded at a robust pace in November amid a burst of production and rising orders that signal durable gains in the industry, figures from the Institute for Supply Management showed Friday. Fake News Link |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Opinionated | Dec 1 2017, 11:49 AM Post #3 |
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Did these production increases lead to any job gains? Because it does not automatically follow that if production increases, that means more jobs. |
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| RaiderNation | Dec 1 2017, 11:55 AM Post #4 |
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Both things can be true. |
| Will Munny: "Deserve's got nothin' to do with it..." | |
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| George Aligator | Dec 1 2017, 08:25 PM Post #5 |
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Indeed, they ^^^ can; however, the dominant fact in our economy today is the widening split between payroll and production. Money spent on productivity technology (robots, software, telecommunications etc.) frequently produces more production at lower cost than hiring more workers to do the same old jobs. The radical change has revolutionized manufacturing and is transforming retail. There are still a number of manufacturing processes and products which do not lend themselves to new technological automation -- clothing, furniture, food preparation etc. -- higher American wages make it more profitable to conduct these manufactures off-shore. Banning those off-shore products might be a wise move. It will significantly increase their retail cost to consumers, provide low-end factory work and spur the adoption of technology to replace those Americans. Productivity technology is too vast and too complex to be dealt with by the simple mechanism of tariffs and restrictions. |
| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| Robert Stout | Dec 1 2017, 08:28 PM Post #6 |
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I do not protest paying twice as much for American made clothes....They are getting harder to find..............
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| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| Arlette | Dec 1 2017, 10:53 PM Post #7 |
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Then you are doing more for American manufacturing than Trump |
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| estonianman | Dec 1 2017, 11:02 PM Post #8 |
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Taxes are getting cut. You despise that don't you comrade? |
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| The Inquisitor | Dec 1 2017, 11:03 PM Post #9 |
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You seem so sure?.... ![]() Anything to back that up?.... :oyvey Edited by The Inquisitor, Dec 1 2017, 11:04 PM.
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| peewee | Dec 1 2017, 11:04 PM Post #10 |
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Rising stock market, low jobless numbers, etc all Obama. Why not this too. Does not fit your agenda? |
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