Your Economic Suicide America, Denninger;

 

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From: Len Cranford

To: Richard Finley ; 

Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2015 11:41 AM

Subject: Your Economic Suicide America, Denninger;

 

{12+ Million Jobs outsourced and it just keeps going; Just remember those that Destroyed America.  L.}

 

America, Wake The Hell Up   http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230091

 

Folks, there is exactly one way you're going to put a stop to this sort of nonsense:

At the end of October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs. Multiple conference rooms had been set aside for this purpose, and in each room an executive read from a script informing the worker that their last day would be Jan. 30, 2015.

Some workers left the rooms crying; others appeared shocked. This went on all day. As each employee received a call to go to a conference room, others in the office looked up sometimes with pained expressions. One IT worker recalls a co-worker mouthing "no" as he walked by on the way to a conference room.

Disney, like so many other firms, apparently has been moving many of their high-paying IT jobs effectively offshore -- in many cases demanding that current employees train replacements that then come in and take over.  Those replacements are H1b immigrants, frequently from India, where they obtain subsidized schooling and, of course, come from a land where the cost of living is a tiny fraction of what it is here.

These moves are often disguised as "outsourcing" to consultant outfits and similar that do the actual hiring, or as is often the case with call centers and similar the entire operation is moved offshore.  In either event the result is the same: Good paying American jobs are lost to foreigners.

This has been going on now for well over a decade; I saw the start of it back before I stood up MCSNet, but the trend has accelerated greatly.  Effectively, if it can be offshored it will be in some fashion, exploiting the wage disparity between nations.

You can argue all you want about lifting the living conditions in these other lands but doing so comes at our expense.  Even so-called "American" companies like General Motors and Ford have effectively offshored huge percentages of their car manufacturing through their supply chains and where the pieces that go into the cars come from.

We, the people, have permitted this.  We in fact fund it every time we buy products and services made by companies that do this.  While today there are no alternatives left in many industries that do none of it we can stop buying goods and services from the worst offenders and by doing so pressure firms to bring home their manufacturing -- and jobs.

As an example Apple both sources virtually everything that goes into its iPhone and iPad products from Asia and assembles there too.  If you care about American jobs you cannot buy Apple products -- period.  Likewise, Disney is not a "need", it's a want, and if you care about high-paying American IT jobs don't go to Disney parks.

There is only one way to stop this crap and that's when you, the American consumer, refuse to buy from the worst of these firms and press the advantage when someone pops up to assemble products and employ workers here in America.  As soon as that pressure is applied someone will step up and seize market share.

It starts with you folks; you either care about the future of this country and both your job and the job that your kids will (or won't!) have, or you don't.  You either put a stop to this through the pressure of the market or you not only ratify you accelerate this trend by buying an iPhone, iWatch or iPad and going to a Disney park.

Economic suicide is a choice.

Choose wisely.