Labor Secretary Defends Job Outsourcing

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEW YORK - Foreign companies have created millions of jobs in the United States, far outpacing the amount of work that American businesses have shifted abroad, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Wednesday.


While the movement of U.S. jobs to other countries has caused great public concern, Chao said, "I'm trying to get out the facts" without sounding "callous."


In the past year, employers have eliminated about 300,000 jobs in the United States in favor of cheaper labor elsewhere, Chao said. Yet about 9 million Americans currently work for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies, she said.


"People talk about (outsourcing) a lot," Chao said in an interview after appearing before Missouri delegates at the Republican convention. "The anxiety belies the numbers."


Vice presidential candidate John Edwards (news - web sites) seized on Chao's remarks and called it another example of President Bush's misguided economic policies.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040901/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_job_outsourcing&cid=694&ncid=2043

[acmavm]

1. What is the hell is she talking about? Has she lost her mind, or does she

think everyone else has lost theirs? What a amazingly stupid remark to make.

[MisterP]

7. the old "insourcing" tripe; trust the corporatists as far as you can throw

'em
More crackheadedness; they're already saying outsourcing is the best thing since sliced bread, and now the neocolonialists are dragging alleged "insourcing" into this.

[Green Lantern]

13. Saw a show clip

last night - can't remember where-that the outsourcing CEO's are reaping huge salaries and bonuses as a direct result of the outsourcing. They have jumped up to 3300 times the income of the Indians and others who have captured the jobs.

Can anyone give a citation?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. Chao = Idiot Savant

Chao, "visitor from the planet Stupid".

Waiting for chimp to announce the plan to eliminate Social Security next.

[speedoo]

3. Isn't she McConnell's wife?

The rethug Kentucky senator?

If so, that's why she is Labor Secretary.

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Well that qualifies her in a US corporate CEO/ Board of directors

kind of way doesn't it!

[indepat]

15. Anti- is more descriptive of her handiwork

[KittyWampus]

5. Oy!

[lovuian]

6. The Good News is Republicans are defending this issue

because most Americans disagree with it

[ignatius 2]

8. Good, let's fucking start with hers.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[TahitiNut]

9. 8,999,998 of those 9 million are lobbyists.

The other two are in the cabinet.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. And using spent nuclear fuel rods as bed warmers is a great way

to cut down your energy bill.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS FROM OUTER SPACE!

[lapfog_1]

11. There is a BIG difference

between people working here in the US for a multinational,
producing products and services to be consumed HERE IN THE
US versus taking jobs from people here in the US and giving
them to people overseas to produce products and services to
be consumed HERE IN THE US.

[lapfog_1]

12. There is a BIG difference

between people working here in the US for a multinational,
producing products and services to be consumed HERE IN THE
US versus taking jobs from people here in the US and giving
them to people overseas to produce products and services to
be consumed HERE IN THE US.

[wurzel]

14. Republican labor secretary. Oxymoron.

Should be Republican employer secretary

[ashling]

16. GOP philosophy:

Less is More :evilgrin:

Fewer Jobs = More jobs

unemployment = employment

poverty = security

[ignatius 2]

17. And making sandwiches at Mickey D's is really manufacturing.

n/t

[ashling]

21. yes

especially that:puke:

[ramapo]

18. For example?

Let's see...like Hoffman-La Roche who have moved their IT management to Spain and Mexico

Like Sony who has moved much application development to Russia and wherever

Like just about every friggin corporation I can name, foreign or domestic, who offshore major IT work and do much less in the US...

Or how about all the disk drives and computer systems that are no longer manufactured in the US?

And so on and so on and so on...

Sure millions of crappy jobs have been created for people to sell stuff made in other countries to their fellow citizens who have jobs selling other crappy stuff made in other friggin countries...

It's a house of cards folks. Don't get caught standing underneath when it all collapses.

[MasonJar]

19. She is the Corps' Secretary not the Labor's. And yes she is

married to one of the biggest pile of c__p there is...Mitch. I should know; he is my senator. What a laugh!

[damntexdem]

20. It's obviously time for some more outsourcing ...

let's outsource Labor, and the presidency, to the Democrats.

[thebeaglehaslanded]

22. More Republican idiotic thinking...or am I being redundant?

[lovuian]

23. Thats such Bull 300,000 have been unemployed

and that is taking its toll on Economy