Sunday, April 11, 2004
I'll update soon, I promise. Probably tonight. In the meantime, I'll deal with the "outsourcing epidemic" that's allegedly killing jobs for Americans. Let's listen to John "Mr. Heinz" Kerry on the subject:
"We're going to shut down any incentive, any reward or any kind of benefit for any Benedict Arnold company or CEO that takes American jobs overseas and sticks the American people with the bill."
Benedict Arnold companies and CEOs? Wow John, that's really strong language, calling them traitors and all. Well, I guess he's right: if outsourcing truly does take American jobs overseas.....
Wait a minute. What's that word again?
Outsourcing.
Hmmm....so if American companies are "outsourcing"....I wonder if there's such a thing as "insourcing". Let's check.
". . .the United States greatly benefits from doing business with the world. Right now, foreign companies employ 6.4 million Americans. Foreign business leaders realize that American workers are the best in the world. There are hundreds of foreign companies employing thousands of American workers in each of your states. For example, in my home state of Texas, Toyota plans to hire 2,000 employees in the next year at its new, $800 million San Antonio truck facility. In addition, an Indiana auto parts manufacturer has just broken ground on a $13 million plant in Austin that will supply Toyota's factory. Economic isolationism would threaten each one of these 6.4 million American jobs. America cannot turn back from a global marketplace of goods and services. Engagement with the world creates jobs and growth, while a policy of economic isolation destroys them." ~Commerce Secretary Don Evans in a March 24 statement before the House Energy and Commerce Committee
6.4 million jobs from foreign companies?! Wow, that's a lot of "insourcing". How can all of those foreign companies "Benedict Arnold" their home countries like that?
Well, here's a kooky thought.
Maybe....just maybe....free trade moves jobs to where they can be best done, thus giving us the best products for the lowest prices. Maybe all of this "outsourcing" hoopla is just nonsense. It may even be- and work with me, I know this is a radical concept- that free trade actually gives Americans MORE jobs than jealously guarding American jobs ever could.
Eh, that can't be right. Because then John Kerry would be sensationalizing the job market picture in order to help himself get elected. And John Kerry was a bonafide Vietnam hero, dagnamit!
So the solution must be to convince every country to imprison any CEO who allows his companies to steal its citizens jobs and move them to another country. That will eradicate this rash of treason we're seeing worldwide.
And next, we can all go live in a cave, put on blindfolds, and place our hands on our ears while going
It'll be great!
"We're going to shut down any incentive, any reward or any kind of benefit for any Benedict Arnold company or CEO that takes American jobs overseas and sticks the American people with the bill."
Benedict Arnold companies and CEOs? Wow John, that's really strong language, calling them traitors and all. Well, I guess he's right: if outsourcing truly does take American jobs overseas.....
Wait a minute. What's that word again?
Outsourcing.
Hmmm....so if American companies are "outsourcing"....I wonder if there's such a thing as "insourcing". Let's check.
". . .the United States greatly benefits from doing business with the world. Right now, foreign companies employ 6.4 million Americans. Foreign business leaders realize that American workers are the best in the world. There are hundreds of foreign companies employing thousands of American workers in each of your states. For example, in my home state of Texas, Toyota plans to hire 2,000 employees in the next year at its new, $800 million San Antonio truck facility. In addition, an Indiana auto parts manufacturer has just broken ground on a $13 million plant in Austin that will supply Toyota's factory. Economic isolationism would threaten each one of these 6.4 million American jobs. America cannot turn back from a global marketplace of goods and services. Engagement with the world creates jobs and growth, while a policy of economic isolation destroys them." ~Commerce Secretary Don Evans in a March 24 statement before the House Energy and Commerce Committee
6.4 million jobs from foreign companies?! Wow, that's a lot of "insourcing". How can all of those foreign companies "Benedict Arnold" their home countries like that?
Well, here's a kooky thought.
Maybe....just maybe....free trade moves jobs to where they can be best done, thus giving us the best products for the lowest prices. Maybe all of this "outsourcing" hoopla is just nonsense. It may even be- and work with me, I know this is a radical concept- that free trade actually gives Americans MORE jobs than jealously guarding American jobs ever could.
Eh, that can't be right. Because then John Kerry would be sensationalizing the job market picture in order to help himself get elected. And John Kerry was a bonafide Vietnam hero, dagnamit!
So the solution must be to convince every country to imprison any CEO who allows his companies to steal its citizens jobs and move them to another country. That will eradicate this rash of treason we're seeing worldwide.
And next, we can all go live in a cave, put on blindfolds, and place our hands on our ears while going
"LA LA LA"
so we can pretend other countries don't exist.It'll be great!
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