"What have they promised you for helping them destroy our country?"

[donsu]

http://sideshow.me.uk/smar05.htm#111445


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It takes a pillage

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America's remaining job market is domestic nontradable services. While India and China develop first world job markets, the US labor market takes on the characteristics of a third world work force. Only jobs that cannot be outsourced are growing.

America is turning into one of those "exotic" places you go to for your vacation. That's what "service economy" means. Just one great big giant tourist trap, full of desperate people hustling for tips.

How bad will things have to get before economists realize that outsourced jobs are not being replaced? Indeed, many American companies are ceasing to have any presence in the US except for a sales force.

Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, declared recently: "What we're trying to do is outline an entire strategy of becoming a Chinese company."

Tom Street at Bad Attitudes says:
Chambers is just being honest about what all the major corporations are doing. It's not just the brawn. It's the brains and the heart that are being outsourced.
Doesn't this just make the debate about social security akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic? Can't say I wish I were in my 20s about now.

Paul Craig Roberts wondered when economists would notice this was going on, but can they really not know? Or aren't they all just in on the joke?

The other question I really, really wish would be asked in every pundit interview is this:

What have they promised you for helping them destroy our country?

You can aim that question not just at the Republicans and their more obvious shills, but at most of the media and of course at the DLC. Maybe that's the real letter-writing campaign we should be launching.

Update: Charles Dodgson informs us that it's even worse than I thought.
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[okieinpain]

1. so true.

[TheFarseer]

2. yes very sad

and no one's doing anything about it.

[LiviaOlivia]

3. I'm changing my name to Madame DeFarge

And I will be knitting.

[jdots]

4. The breaking point will come with a dull thud.

The work ethic in America has been destroyed by greed.As we produce less,the idea of producing will die out like the arts,the spirit can't be replaced with entertainment for ever.

[KayLaw]

5. I live in Florida

Theme park attendence is up and the papers are very honest about the reason--our weak dollar. It reminds me of a scene in MIBII. A girl wants her boyfriend to take her to Cambodia where, "You can get a lobster dinner for a dollar."