Your Tax Dollars Used to Ship Your Jobs Overseas
USAID, a department of the government, is even now inking a deal to train workers in Armenia how to do Java programming and to manage call centers. If US workers can't muster enough gumption to express outrage, maybe they don't deserve these jobs. Take note that the "jobs that American workers won't do" has grown to enourmous proportions. I happen to do Java programming, have a Masters degree, and made straight A's in college. It looks like design, implementation, manufacturing and everything else that isn't nailed down is going away.
The end result is obvious - ship out the know how, ship out the manufacturing, and ship out the money (via trade defecits) - it looks to me like another few years and the managers who thought this was such a great idea won't be needed anymore either. Poof! No more American corporations.
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this is an outrage
It's beyond training workers, they are literally using our tax dollars to train foreigners to take our jobs.
Based on what this article is saying and all the IT outsourcing
I would say American IT workers are being negatively affected by all this outsourcing by decreased salaries, lack of work, lack of opportunities and lack of training opportunities.
The Arizona Solution to Tariffs
Ok, so the states by signing the US Constitution, signed away most of their rights to collect tariffs on imports, but not all of them. For instance, a state could require extensive inspection of all foreign made goods shipped into that state. This inspection would take time and could cost a lot of money that would have to be paid by the importer of those goods. Goods manufactured in the United States could not be legally subjected to these "inspections" but goods manufactured overseas could be legally and constitutionally "inspected".
I think it is time for states to stand up against a federal government that has long since ceased to look out for our best interests. We see this in Arizona where that state has had to take the enforcement of their border with Mexico into their own hands. There is nothing stopping states from doing the same with the importation of goods and services from places like China and Saudi Arabia.
What say you? Is this a movement we could start here on this blog?
that is a very good idea!
First I heard of an organized campaign to utilize what laws are possible to combat the trade deficit since the Obama administration won't do a damn thing and Congress just waves their sabers around.
the first thing that popped into my mind is the interstate commerce clause. There are a host of SCOTUS decisions which find state laws unconstitutional because it "violates interstate commerce".
That said, seeing if some group of attorneys wants to try something is a great idea.
I know Hawaii has all sorts of inspections because invasive species can completely destroy the ecosystem and that also means a host of crops.
Passed it along
Ok, I sent the idea to one of my state Senators. If he's not too receptive, then there's always the weaker of the two Governor's candidates. He's not someone whom I'd vote for otherwise, but if he took up this issue that would change my opinion of him and probably a lot of other people's opinions too.
I own some machining equipment and in order to keep my machines running I periodically spend lots of money at the MSC outlet nearby. One day while I was waiting for my parts to get from the warehouse to the counter I was talking to a guy who worked for a professional machine shop. He told me that his shop could not compete against the Chinese machine shops. He said that the estimates his customers were getting from these foreign shops were so low that he could not even buy the materials for what the Chinese could sell the finished part for.
This could be a chance for my state to turn that around. This state could become a new center for metal machining in the US! Imagine the industries that could attract if we ever get a sane approach to international trade in this nation again. This could really rock the nation.
that's the Chinese strategy
The prices are so low, it will run an American out of business, so they....capture that manufacturing area...or, if they cannot do it that way, they will use VATs, Tariffs and dumping to....drive a particular set of U.S. manufacturers....out of business....or....they move their manufacturing to China.
I think this approach is a great idea. Like AZ, Federal won't do anything on border security, they are overrun, therefore they write their own law.
Taking this approach on trade is great because when the Federal Government sues that state, you know which side they are on!
But at minimum it brings great publicity on how the Federal Government isn't doing a damn thing on trade and we're hemorrhaging jobs and our economy as a result.
India's strategy is clearly all about capturing the entire tech services area,and services in general, through offshore outsourcing and literally sending their labor to our country to displace Americans, take our jobs and get the various associated contracts, as well as remittances, even getting U.S. corporations to eventually create divisions in India (move R&D, production to India).
State Tariff Tougher to Apply than Federal Tariff
If my state applied a tariff on all parts machined in foreign countries, there would probably have to be exceptions made. There is an aircraft manufacturer in my state, but they do primarily DoD work, so they could probably be forced to live with that law. Someone wanting to buy a waterpump for their Toyota might not be so understanding so it might be a good idea to exempt car parts from those tariffs.
I couldn't think of a good IT example where this kind of state tariff might be helpful. Maybe if embedded software was differentiated from computer software, then a tariff on foreign coded embedded software could make sense. I'm just throwing that out there.
It would certainly seem like states could put taxes on businesses that overseas outsource a significant portion of their product's hardware or software. The trick would be to come up with laws that provided a net gain in employment instead of a net loss, which wouldn't do our cause any signficant good.
make this suggestion
to the AAM and other organizations who have the political influence. It would have to be tackled by a slew of legislators to make a law that would hold. We know how the Obama administration likes to sue!