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If the government and government workers have their way, we'll all be slaves. There won't be professionals. They'll keep churning out slave service jobs.
The USA used to be a nation of the middle class with very good wages, high home ownership, investments, etc. Now we're probably more educated but have lost an enormous amount of jobs, and what replaced them were Walmart jobs. Great economics policy there! You can thank a government analyst for that abject domestic policy failure!
FREE TRADE is NOT FREE.
Quoting: Don'tBeAfraid jesus christ wtf are you talking about. we did not replace educated jobs with manual labor jobs. Remember that whole manufacturing thing the US used to do... that was replaced with this lil thing called the service industry... and i dont mean drycleaning, i mean highly educated services. We replaced shit jobs with educated ones
Really, here's a link to Congressional Research Services. It details the huge loss in Service jobs by outsourving overseas.
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link to forbes.house.gov]
"Summary
Offshoring, also known as offshore outsourcing, is the term now being used to describe a practice
among companies located in the United States of contracting with businesses beyond U.S.
borders to perform services that would otherwise have been provided by in-house employees in
white-collar occupations (e.g., computer systems designers). The term is equally applicable to
U.S. firms offshoring the jobs of blue-collar workers on textile and auto assembly lines, for
example, which has been taking place for decades. The extension of offshoring from U.S.
manufacturers to service providers has heightened public policy concerns about the extent of job
loss and foregone employment opportunities among U.S. workers. This concern is especially
pertinent to policymakers because of a national unemployment rate persistently exceeding 9%
despite the end of the latest recession in June 2009. "
U.S. workers reportedly have become more concerned about the security of their jobs due to
increased global economic integration since the early 2000s. Offshore outsourcing, which is one
manifestation of globalization, is reported to have adversely affected the employment situations
of U.S. white-collar workers in information technology (IT) jobs (e.g., computer systems analysts
and software engineers) and IT-enabled jobs (e.g., telemarketers and accounting clerks). Data
from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Displaced Worker Survey nevertheless suggest that the
vulnerability to job loss of white-collar workers preceded the expansion of offshoring from jobs
in manufacturing industries to jobs in professional and business services, administrative support
services, and financial services industries. In addition, the data on displaced workers that include
the latest recession suggest that macroeconomic conditions rather than offshoring have likely
accounted for most of the increase in job losses in recent years. "
