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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"DGVREIMAN" |
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06 Mar 2004 09:59:15 AM |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS? |
WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS?
The Hanoi John Kerry position that President Bush sent white
collar jobs overseas via NAFTA (which BTW Hanoi John Kerry voted
in favor of ) is utter nonsense, and just more political hype.
What has occurred in the private sector during the past few years
is American Business productivity has grown so much that
employees have been less in demand. If a business, due mostly to
the use of computers and similar high tech methods of production,
packaging, shipping, billing and accounting, not to mention
inventory and sales projections, can increase its productivity
without adding the burden of employee costs, it will most
certainly do so.
So can a political leader force businesses to become "less
productive" so they will therefore hire more Americans, and then
charge more for their products? Albeit illogical, this self
defeating plan seems to be the crux of the Hanoi John Kerry's
economic proposal.
If Hanoi John can mange to force business to become less
productive and therefore hire more employees, will that tactic
once again force a false economic and residual labor bubble like
we experienced during the Clinton years? If the Kerry plan is
implemented, then how will American companies compete with
foreign competitors? Especially when the foreign competitors can
produce a product with less employee cost than the American
counterpart?
How long will these Kerry generated jobs last if they are based
upon a false premise of business?
Doug Grant (Tm)
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| User: "PolicySpy" |
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| Title: Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS? |
06 Mar 2004 03:59:40 PM |
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WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS?
The Hanoi John Kerry position that President Bush sent white
collar jobs overseas via NAFTA (which BTW Hanoi John Kerry voted
in favor of ) is utter nonsense, and just more political hype.
What has occurred in the private sector during the past few years
is American Business productivity has grown so much that
employees have been less in demand. If a business, due mostly to
the use of computers and similar high tech methods of production,
packaging, shipping, billing and accounting, not to mention
inventory and sales projections, can increase its productivity
without adding the burden of employee costs, it will most
certainly do so.
Outsourcing refers to professional and administrative jobs going to places
like India. NAFTA concerns a manufacturing of parts and components moving to
Mexico. Trade deficit is highest with Asia as major products and complete
systems import from Asia...but the democrats bring forth a focus on Mexico.
But the outsourcing is a shock because while hand assembly jobs were
expected to move, professional and administrative jobs where not expected to
move...
(Somewhere out there is a view of automated U.S. factories run by engineers
and programmers. Well Intel, for instance, has a factory in Arizona but also
factories all over the world.)
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| User: "cc" |
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| Title: Re: WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS? |
06 Mar 2004 05:20:08 PM |
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In article <gRr2c.21620$MX5.1775@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com>, says...
WHAT HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS?
The Hanoi John Kerry position that President Bush sent white
collar jobs overseas via NAFTA (which BTW Hanoi John Kerry voted
in favor of ) is utter nonsense, and just more political hype.
What has occurred in the private sector during the past few years
is American Business productivity has grown so much that
employees have been less in demand. If a business, due mostly to
the use of computers and similar high tech methods of production,
packaging, shipping, billing and accounting, not to mention
inventory and sales projections, can increase its productivity
without adding the burden of employee costs, it will most
certainly do so.
Outsourcing refers to professional and administrative jobs going to places
like India. NAFTA concerns a manufacturing of parts and components moving to
Mexico. Trade deficit is highest with Asia as major products and complete
systems import from Asia...but the democrats bring forth a focus on Mexico.
But the outsourcing is a shock because while hand assembly jobs were
expected to move, professional and administrative jobs where not expected to
move...
Ah, the beauty of the marketplace at work. Don't fear it, Americans aren't
afraid of a little competition.
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