43 House Dems Blast JP Morgan's Plan to Invest $400M in India

[babylonsister]

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43 House Dems Blast JP Morgan's Plan to Invest $400M in India
By Elana Schor - March 17, 2009, 2:05PM


It seems there's no end to the frustration on Capitol Hill over the behavior of bailed-out banks. On a day when AIG remained the No. 1 target of populist wrath from both parties, 43 House Democrats dashed off a letter to JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, blasting the bank's plan to spend $400 million on expanding its Indian IT workforce.

The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy (D-OH), whose state has 15,000 JP Morgan Chase employees, can be found after the jump, along with the names of co-signers (including Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank ).

Dear Mr. Dimon,

We are outraged by the potential actions of your company to outsource tens of thousands of U.S. jobs as well as your comments made to the United States Chamber of Commerce on Thursday. We would like to remind you that the taxpayers of the United States of America contributed $25 billion to your company to help stabilize our economy--not send jobs overseas.

Just yesterday you indicated that the "constant vilification of corporate America" by our public officials is what is hurting our country. This pronouncement comes less than 72 hours after reports surfaced that your institution plans to spend nearly $400 million on outsourcing of jobs to India--an increase of 25 percent. JP Morgan Chase is not a victim of constant vilification, but it will be viewed and criticized based on actions like this outsourcing policy.

651,000 Americans lost their jobs in February. 3.8 million Americans lost their jobs in the last 12 months. Every day an average of 21,000 men and women receive a pink slip and with it the fear of an uncertain economic future. How should these American workers, many of them your consumers, be expected to have hope for a better future when the very companies they contributed to through the Troubled Assets Relief Program outsource the jobs they desperately need?

In your testimony on Feb. 11, 2009 to the House Committee on Financial Services you said that you looked forward to working with the committee "to help find solutions to our current economic problems, to keep American families in their homes and to begin to restore confidence in our financial markets." There is no better way to make your words immediately ring hollow than taking actions to outsource thousands of jobs that Americans could perform.

In the coming days, we expect to hear more about your plans to invest $400 million in the workers of India and the impact your actions will have on communities across America including potential future layoffs.

One source from an article published in the Economic Times of India stated almost enthusiastically that "JP Morgan is one of the first banks in the U.S. to flesh out its outsourcing strategy ever since the banking meltdown..." This is one area where your institution should be ashamed of leading. Your actions will be watched--and possibly followed--by other institutions in the financial sector. Trends of this nature concern us and will be followed closely as well.

Sincerely,

Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy Rep. Barney Frank

Rep. Loretta Sanchez Rep. Charles Wilson

Rep. Marcy Kaptur Rep. Betty Sutton

Rep. Tomas Perriello Rep. Joe Baca

Rep. Diane Watson Rep. Peter Welch

Rep. Charles Gonzalez Rep. Lynn Woolsey

Rep. Al Green Rep. Luis Gutierrez

Rep. Paul Hodes Rep. Tim Ryan

Rep. Timothy Bishop Rep. Paul Hodes

Rep. Stephen Lynch Rep. Eric Massa

Rep. Robert Brady Rep. Chellie Pingree

Rep. Bobby Rush Rep. John Oliver

Rep. Chaka Fattah Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Rep. Rubén Hinojosa Rep. James McGovern

Rep. Elijah Cummings Rep. Michael Michaud

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Rep. Linda Sánchez

Rep. Christopher Carney Rep. Steven Rothman

Rep. Raúl Grijalva Rep. Phil Hare

Rep. Fortney Peter Stark Rep. Michael Capuano

Rep. Daniel Maffei Rep. Harry Teague

Rep. Paul Tonko Rep. John Dingell

[truebrit71]

1. Jamie Dimon is a fucking scumbag that would throw his mama under the bus for a buck...

...fuck him and anyone that looks like him...:grr:

[babylonsister]

2. Okay then! Maybe he won't be making as many bucks as he

thought he would be. I'm happy to see some pushback.

[MindPilot]

3. YES!! A very stern letter! That will show them what-for!

A gallows would be a little more effective.

On edit I guess I should be grateful the Dems are actually finally starting to acknowledge the existence of the working class.

[Mist]

5. Yes, these strongly-worded letters are SO effective. Well, they can tell

their constituents that they tried. Kind of.

[EnviroBat]

4. It's time for us to start finding these fucking cock-suckers,

drag them out in the street, and end them. I've had enough of this shit, and I still HAVE A JOB!

Fuck you Dimon. You are the enemy.

[City Lights]

6. How 'bout we outsource executives!

I'm sure there are millions of people in India (or China) who would be willing to run American corporations into the ground for a fraction of what the current executives are making.

Shareholders should vote on it!

[OhioChick]

7. About damn time the Dems started started calling these bastards

On what they do with our taxpayer dollars. Good to see my man Dennis on there.

Now, since the issue has been addressed....they need to DO something about it!

K&R

[OHdem10]

8. If you do not laugh you will cry. As fast as we give the money

to bail one group from the ashes another group is sticking
it to America and the American worker.

How about a little Economic Patriotism????? No, I am not
being protectionist. Common Sense tells me we better get
our own country thriving. These companies have allegience
to no one. The Almighty Dollar rules. Go where cheap labor
and no rules predominate. Someone had best warn them--Fire
all your American Workers and you will have no one to buy
your "cheap" products.

These Companies and Our Leaders have to see the country in
ruins before they recognize what they are doing.

[ChromeFoundry]

10. Is protectionism still a 'bad' word?

I see nothing wrong with our government protecting this country by protecting job that will allow the country to thrive once again.

[ihavenobias]

9. K & R n/t