Outsourcing and the Big Lie
4/11/2004
THE PROPAGANDA from our leaders is that oursourcing is good for America. They dwell on the fact that corporate profits and productivity are at an all time high. However, these profits are a windfall for the ever increasing and obscene pay given to corporate executives. The big lie is that profits and productivity will translate into meaningful employment for millions of displaced employees. Our college graduates cannot find meaningful employment. And high productivity primarily means more work for less pay for employees.
No answers are given concerning:
Where and how do we retrain millions of unemployed?
What do you train them for?
Who pays for the retraining and the family living costs through retraining and finding a new job?
The backbone of our country used to be technical and manufacturing jobs that are now shipped out of the country.
Meanwhile, from our leaders all we get is the big lie: Outsourcing is good, increased corporate profits and productivity will create meaningful jobs, and retraining will solve the problem.
FRANK F. SMITH Jr.
Carver
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