Where are all the US jobs going?

[LittleApple81]

this is from MSN money:

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P62115.asp

Number of US jobs moving offshore

Take a look. Very chilling forecasts from the
U.S. Department of Labor and Forrester Research, Inc.

[Brucey]

1. Manufacturing jobs will probably never come back.

Get used to the new world order.

[LittleApple81]

3. So what are we supposed to work at?

They recommend services, nursing and SECURITY for homeland security: you will need this to control people when they start realizing the American dream is dead for them.

[Don_G]

2. India Has Started Outsourcing Already

By 2010 they expect to realize $1.2 Trillion per year from outsourcing and already have opened centers in South America, Europe and China.

Isn't it "wonderful?"

[wtmusic]

5. It's "wonderful" for them

And unless you want to:

1) Cut all communication between the US and the Third World;

2) Work for $.25/hour

there's nothing you can do about it.

[realFedUp]

6. Maybe they could outsource to Iraq and Afghanistan....

our tax dollars coming full circle....

[wtmusic]

8. Tax dollars are already coming full circle

except there's a conspicuous break between Halliburton senior management and the average US taxpayer...

actually, employing Iraqis and Afghanis would be a great idea, but it won't happen. To much empowerment.

[papau]

4. You gotta love a tax code that now encourages moving jobs offshore

Remember the days when no matter how much fake losses you cooked up - or how well you bribed the 3rd world countries into turning fees, rents, and royalties into "taxes", or how great your accountants were at claiming all expenses were in the US so you lost money on your US operation but only made up for it those "overtaxed" world operations, the Gov said you still had to pay a tax to America if you made money?

It is good to be rich or a corporation when the GOP are in power.

[Don_G]

9. Regan Started The Exodus

By giving US companies tax breaks to move manufacturing and service facilities tax breaks to relocate overseas. I don't know if the trend can be reversed but I would like to see tax penalties for those companies and corporate income taxed on that part of revenue earned outside of the US.

[Mari333]

12. I remember those days when Raygun also did this

Tax cuts to the wealthiest, and then the corporations sent all the jobs overseas...short term profits for the greedy bastards with cheap labour non union...
in the meantime, 70 million babyboomers are set to retire in a decade, and Im one of them.
Thank god I have a roof over my head. Who knows for how long.

[HereSince1628]

10. US global trade policies are a 10 year experiment with the lives

of working Americans. They are a failure for workers. Oddly enough I think I saw that predicted 10 years ago by Ross Perot.

[ramapo]

14. Giant sucking sound....

Perot talked about that giant sucking sound you hear are the jobs leaving the US for Mexico under NAFTA. He was exactly right. He was also the candidate to clearly and honestly address the phony economics of Bush.

One irony is that jobs are leaving Mexico for China.

This has been a long-time coming. I'll say 30 years. During this time corporate power has risen to the point where we have been governed as a corporate oliogarchy for some time.

The amazing thing is that the public has embraced this change. Unions became evil. Worker's rights? A joke. Starting in the mid-to-late '70s was the rush to get the "good" corporate job. Make the big bucks which morphed into the "me" decade(s).

Even during massive layoffs (late '80s-early '90s), corporations did not really draw much fire.

Corporations so thoroughly control the government today that it will take a massive uprising to throw the bums out and balance the scales.

The only thing that will provoke the public is (besides loss of TV) is an economic disaster. The rate that jobs are leaving coupled with many of the low-level jobs now filled by immigrants may be just that.

[LittleApple81]

11. And I don't think we can change this any time soon n/t

[pbeal]

7. lackey and thug for the rich are what we will have left

have a exciting lackey job
Health care - keep the rich from dying
Other in-person services - entertain the rich
Real estate - make sure the rich have some place sleep
Financial services - make sure the rich stay rich

or thug job
Security - keep the poor away from the rich

When did we become Brazil?

[bearfan454]

13. They want it where all the rich people own all the companies.

And we all work for them for low wages. It is getting that way now.

[AndyTiedye]

15. They Want Us All in the Army (at even lower pay)

How big an army do they think they need to take over the world?
Obviously the current one isn't big enough.