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U.S. Jobs Jumping Ship
An anonymous reader writes "As painful as February's big job cuts were, they're even more painful since many of those jobs are never coming back as U.S. employers in a wide range of industries move more and more jobs overseas. CNN has the story." Salon has a good piece detailing how job requirements are changing, asking more and more for less and less pay.
Good idea. Instead of shipping US jobs to Malaysia, why not make the US a place with the living conditions of Malaysia ?
You can drop the partisanship. Its an illusion that allows you to believe as far as many issues are concerned you actually have a choice. You don't.
businesses have every choice in the world. Why do American CEOs get ~300 times the average workers salary while in Europe its around 30.
In America you had better hold stock because holding a job is getting more and more difficult. Of course stock...
I vote Greens when other knowledge of candidates is absent..
Perhaps there is a tradeoff to unionized auto workers getting paid 20$ an hour for working basic assembly lines ....
but we really have made doing business in this country incredibly difficult (especially small businesses). Haven't we asked for this?
You idiots on the right don't get it, do you? Why should any American, a resident of the richest country in the world with the greatest skills and capital resources, have to work for peanuts?
What is wrong is not the $20 an hour, but the car making. Making cars is not a high skilled job - let the cheaper labour markets make them. Design them instead. Better still, build the technologies that will stop your SUVs poisoning the planet.
And hey - get a social health care system, it will save you money - and lives - thus making your more competitive, not less.