Posted on 08/01/2011 10:42:39 PM PDT by Robert Drobot
Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China. GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now GE has announced that it "is moving the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing". Apparently, this is all part of a "plan to invest about $2 billion across China" over the next few years. But moving core pieces of its business overseas is nothing new for GE. Under Immelt, GE has shipped tens of thousands of good jobs out of the United States. Perhaps GE should change its slogan to "Imagination At Work (In China)". If the very people that have been entrusted with solving the unemployment crisis are shipping jobs out of the country, what hope is there that things are going to turn around any time soon?
Earlier this month, Immelt made the following statement to a jobs summit at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce....
Apparently Immelt's idea of being part of the solution is to ship as many jobs overseas as he possibly can.
A recent article on the Huffington Post documented how GE has been sending tens of thousands of good jobs out of the country....
GE is supposed to be creating the "jobs of tomorrow", but it seems that most of the "jobs of tomorrow" will not be located inside the United States.
The last GE factory in the U.S. that made light bulbs closed last September. The transition to the new CFL light bulbs was supposed to create a whole bunch of those "green jobs" that Barack Obama keeps talking about, but as an article in the Washington Post noted, that simply is not happening....
But GE is far from alone in shipping jobs and economic infrastructure out of the United States. For example, big automakers such as Ford are being very aggressive in China. Ford is currently "building three factories in Chongqing as part of $1.6 billion investment that also includes another plant in Nanchang".
Today, China accounts for approximately one out of every four vehicles sold worldwide. The big automakers consider the future to be in China.
Just a few decades ago, China was an economic joke and the U.S. economy was absolutely unparalleled.
But disastrous trade policies have opened up the door for a mammoth transfer of jobs, factories and wealth from the United States to China.
China has become an absolute powerhouse and America is rapidly declining.
Beautiful new infrastructure is going up all over China even as U.S. infrastructure rots and decays right in front of our eyes.
You can see some amazing pictures of the stunning economic development that has been going on in China here, here, here and here.
America is being deindustrialized at lightning speed and very few of our politicians seem to care.
Back in 1979, there were 19.5 million manufacturing jobs in the United States.
Today, there are 11.6 million.
That represents a decline of 40 percent during a time period when our overall population experienced tremendous growth.
We used to have the greatest manufacturing cities on the entire globe. The rest of the world was in awe of us.
Today, most of those formerly great manufacturing cities are decaying, rotting hellholes.
The following is what one reporter from the UK saw during his visit to Detroit....
You can see some really shocking images of the decline of Detroit right here.
Our politicians insisted that globalism would not result in a "giant sucking sound" as millions of jobs left America.
But that is exactly what has happened.
Sadly, most American families still don't understand what has happened. Most of them are still waiting for things to get back to "normal".
Millions of unemployed Americans are dealing with incredible amounts of stress right now as they wait for jobs to start opening up again. But the jobs that have been shipped overseas are not coming back. In a globalized economy, it doesn't make sense to hire American workers when you can legally pay workers slave labor wages on the other side of the globe.
Millions of good middle class jobs have been replaced by low paying service jobs. Today there are huge numbers of Americans that are cutting hair or flipping burgers because that is all they can get right now.
Many others are only able to survive because of the safety net. One reader named David recently left a comment in which he shared his story. David did everything that the system asked him to do, but the promised rewards never materialized. Now David is broke, unemployed and he feels deeply frustrated....
As the United States continues to bleed good jobs, stories like the one you just read are going to become much more common.
So what are our politicians doing about all of this?
They tell us that we need even more "free trade"!
Barack Obama says that we need more free trade.
The Republicans say that we need more free trade.
In Washington D.C. our politicians do not agree on much, but one thing they do agree on is that we need to keep shipping jobs out of the country.
Until the American people wake up and start demanding an end to the globalization of the U.S. economy, the job losses are just going to continue to get worse.
The United States has lost a staggering 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year 2000. If this trend continues, millions more Americans will soon be surviving on food stamps or living in tent cities.
The American people are deeply concerned about the economy, but they still have not connected the dots on these issues. The mainstream media and most of our politicians keep telling them that the globalization of the economy is a wonderful thing.
It is so sad that people just do not understand what is going on right in front of their eyes.
Whether you are a conservative or a liberal or a libertarian, you should be against the deindustrialization of America.
Allowing our industrial base to be raped is not a good thing.
Allowing big corporations and foreign governments to pay slave labor wages to workers on the other side of the globe making things that will be sold inside the United States is not a good thing.
Allowing the destruction of our industrial capacity to threaten our national security is not a good thing.
Allowing millions of precious jobs to leave the country is not a good thing.
The biggest corporations are making some extra profits by exploiting cheap labor on the other side of the globe. Corporate executives love to shower themselves with larger and larger bonuses.
But our current trade policies are not working for American workers.
We need "fair trade", not "free trade".
The United States is being taken advantage of, and the Democrats and the Republicans are both laying down like doormats and letting it happen.
If you want to know where all the good jobs went, it is not a big mystery.
They have been shipped out of the country and they are not coming back.
Unless fundamental changes are made, things are going to get worse and worse and worse for American workers.
So what is going to happen next?
It is up to you America.
We need fair trade, not free trade.
The United States is being taken advantage of, and the Democrats and the Republicans are both laying down like doormats and letting it happen.
If you want to know where all the good jobs went, it is not a big mystery.
They have been shipped out of the country and they are not coming back.
Unless fundamental changes are made, things are going to get worse and worse and worse for American workers.
Yet FR is in Meltdown Mode because the GOP actually made Obama blink today.
“Yet FR is in Meltdown Mode because the GOP actually made Obama blink today.”
Well, if you beat any creature long enough, even a big powerful wolf, it will cringe when you offer it a bone.
We’ve been beaten and betrayed for a long time, esp by those “on our side.” So I don’t find the cringing surprising or even worthy of blame. And frankly, I’m still not sure the bone isn’t going to be whacked upside our heads. Again.
Oh, and to the point of the article: Wow, obastard is doing something that hurts the USA. I’m shocked. Just SHOCKED, I tell y’all.
Really.
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You know GWB did the same thing and the free traitors loved it.
We’re screwed regardless of which party we vote for.
I sincerely fear this is the new normal. This is the result of socialism. Wealth redistribution. I HATE SOCIALISTS ...WITH A BURNING RED HOT PASSION.
Vote for the tea party. Its our only hope.
Even our Tea Party friends in the GOP are not happy about this. Sen Paul and Rep Gohmert were making the rounds explaining that this is a bucket of crap. Why not be in meltdown. Do you believe a word coming from Boner and Co after we got kicked in the teeth on the CR just a few month ago? I bet by the end of the week, we will find out so many things hidden in this thing, riots will break out on FR.
We used to export jobs primarily to exploit cheap labor. But we have much bigger problems. It will take years to rebuild our manufacturing base.
Countries like China and India have learned to make more than just plastic vomit. They now manufacture cars, drugs, and circuit boards, circuit boards, and nuclear subs, stealth aircraft. Meanwhile, our industrial skills have declined along with the rest of our culture. Our doctors are quitting, our working stiffs are watching Bay Watch reruns on TV while waiting for their wives to pick up some beer on their way home from waitressing at Chilis , and our big earners are now diversity consultants and women’s issues analysts working in self perpetuating governent bureaucracies.
Even after our government backs off from initiative killing taxes and regulations, (and that’s a big “if”), people whose skills have atrophied after years away from productive jobs will have to be retrained . Our money sucking schools of higher education will have to reorient their silly curricula to something reminiscent of the achievements of Western Civilization. Are our decision makers even capable of recognizing the task that has to be undertaken?
Today, it made Sarah Palin looks real good in 2012.
Were screwed regardless of which party we vote for.
This is precisely the kind of defeatist attitude that enables the establishment pukes of both parties to continue their tyranny against American citizens.
You are correct that GWB did the same thing, as did Clinton, and GHWB. None of them were, or are, conservatives, not even the ones who wore the (R) label.
Deserting the Republican party is exactly what they want the conservatives to do. Then the commie Democrats and commie RINOs will have unfettered free reign over both political parties.
In the 2010 midterm elections, Sarah Palin and the TEA Party voters won the greatest Republican victory since 1932, and the greatest conservative gains in the history of the USA. We won more than 700 US House, US Senate, state governor, and state legislative seats. When the county and local successes are included, the conservative gains for 2010 are well over 2000.
That such an electoral victory does not equate to instant policy shifts is not a signal for us to roll over and die. It is a testament to how much more work remains to be done, how many more commie traitors need to be replaced, and how much more resolute we must be in our commitment to restore our Constitutional republic.
We can do this by continuing what we started in 2010 -- by getting involved and staying involved in the entire electoral cycle at the precinct, county, state, and national levels; by voting out every RINO in the primaries where possible, then voting out every Democrat in the general election where possible, and replacing them with pro-American conservatives who are serious about saving and restoring the USA.
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