LET'S TALK ABOUT "YOUR" JOBS

Nealz Nuze ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2004 | Neal Boortz

[beaureguard]

Jobs .. and the economy. Those seem to be the issues that are driving many, if not most, of those who are supporting the Kerry candidacy.

First of all ... I'm going to repeat this simply because it makes the whiners so unbelievably angry. Listen up. They're not your jobs! The jobs belong to the employers .. not to you! You have job skills and, presumably, a willingness to work. Your task in a free economy is to get out there and find some employer with a job who needs your skills ... and strike a deal.

If you do not have the particular set of job skills that an employer needs, of if you have priced your labor out of the marketplace, guess what? It's not the employer's fault. The fault lies with you. Either develop a new set of job skills that are actually in demand, or adjust your pricing. The employer knows what he's looking for you. If you're not it .. it's your problem, not his.

Now ... you say you're going to vote for a Democrat this year because of jobs? You mean to tell me that you're going to vote against George Bush this year because you don't have a set of job skills that are in demand in our free marketplace? Yeah .. that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

Tell me. Just what do you want the president to do? You information technology people out there .. just what are you demanding? Do you want companies to stop outsourcing IT jobs to India? OK ... tell me how to do that. These companies aren't shipping parts overseas and completed products back. All they do is ship information overseas by phone lines or the Internet. Then that information is modified and shipped back the same way. What do you want the government .. the president to do? Do you want some federal law that prohibits companies from transmitting information overseas by the Internet, having that information transformed or modified, and then shipped back? And tell me just how do you enforce that law? Does that law then apply to you also if you seek information from a company that is located overseas, thus depriving a domestic company of your business?

Ditto for manufacturing. I've already told you the story about the California company that makes computer mouses. (computer mice?) This company ships the components to China. The mouse is assembled in China and shipped back, then sold for around $40. Why? Because the assembly is cheaper in China than it would be in the US. So, you say you want the president to force this company to have that mouse assembled in the US? Fine .. then the price for the mouse goes up to about $70 a pop and sales drop. As the sales drop the jobs of the people in this country who manufacture the components for that mouse go away. Then the 100 marketing jobs this company supports in California also go away. You see, perhaps you can succeed in forcing this company to assemble these mouses in the US, but there just isn't any way you can force the American consumer to pay 80% more for the "made in America" version.

As Bruce Bartlett says in an article listed in my reading assignments, "No nation has ever gotten rich by forcing its citizens to pay more for domestic goods and services that could have been procured more cheaply abroad."

What we are seeing here is a demonstration of the "government owes me" mentality of far too many Americans. Every time you arrive at a speed bump in your life's journey you start screaming to the government for help. Sure, the speed bump is going to slow you down a bit ... but just keep moving forward and things inevitably pick up speed again. Americans are becoming helpless whiners. The more helpless you are, and the more you whine, the more likely it is you're going to vote for a Democrat. Democrats specialize in stroking the malcontent.

Congratulations, whiners. At a time when America if fighting World War IV, the war against Islamic terrorism ... you're going to vote for a candidate who wants to treat terrorism as a freaking law enforcement problem because you've made some pitiful jobs choices. Pitiful.

[Dead Dog]

Exactly, Free Trade is a nice ideal. Fair Trade is essential.

[Cronos]

Face facts -- countries have gotten larger right from the time when all the Anglo-Saxons Kynigs were brought together under one OverLord, King of England who then created the United Kingdom. the US is made up of 50 states. We need some more and vote to add the 6 in Australia first and then maybe the Canadian ones and then the UK, some parts of Mexico etc.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[Taliesan]

I heard everything you heard and not once did I perceive anybody "playing on my fears".

Conclusion: it was your perception

[Mortimer Snavely]

Obviously developing the USA's underdevelopment by developing Red China's industrial and technical strength is considered a good thing.

Boortz is nuts, as are those who think he's brilliant. Trading with the enemy is as wrong as wrong could possibly be.

[hedgetrimmer]

Lets talk about the FTAA and its relationship to outsourcing.

First there was the Pan American Union. It was transformed into the Organization of the American States by the Council of the Americas, a so called business organization that has called all the shots on NAFTA and the FTAA. They pretty much direct the OAS on what to do.

The OAS in its charter, says that in order for a peaceful association of nations to occur, that there must be harmonization of the nations. Where have we heard that before? Downward harmonization, the race to the bottom, whatever, are the result of the massive outsourcing of American jobs and manufacturing. I believe that outsourcing is encouraged by our federal government as a way of accomplishing this harmonization so that the FTAA will come into being in January 2005.

The OAS is acting very much like the federal government its supposed to be right now. If you read the charter, it has franken privileges in every member state, says that International law is the standard of conduct of States in their reciprocal relations (not the US Constitution for the United States), it says The elimination of extreme poverty is an essential part of the promotion and consolidation of representative democracy and is the common and shared responsibility of the American States, hence the migration pact (the illegal alien amensty act), transfer of social security funds to illegal aliens who leave the US, the MIllenium challenge account announced in Monterrey Mexico in 2001 which will give away $5 billion in foreign aid by next year.

Then don't forget their final statement in article 3-- Social justice and social security are bases of lasting peace. Social justice which is the antithesis of America's founding, equal justice.

End of Part II

[A. Pole]

Your "symbiotic relationship" thesis sounds strikingly familiar: Marx said the same thing.

You do not know Marxism. According to Marx, the creative destruction of capitalism, globalisation and intensification of class warfare was necessary to build the fundation for socialism. "Symbiotic relationship", trade unionism, redistribution and social compromise was hated by Marxists as an obstacle to the revolution.

[William Terrell]

Corporations are legal constructs as a vehicle for ownership of property. So, the corporation is a "creature" of the US (I suppose) but the US, as a government entity, has no moral claim of ownership on a corporation. Unless it bought it.

Corporations are the creations of the state's power to confer some kinds of limited liability to a business. A corporation is formed to insulate its individual administrators from personal fiscal responsibility for the corporation's activities, and for other purposes, mainly tax purposes.

A corporation is solely in the business to provide products and services and make a profit while doing it. They are completely and utterly the creation of a state, without which they would not exist.

[A. Pole]

Russia could save a huge amount by getting rid of most of it's nukes.

OK, nukes are the other reason why Russia cannot become a banana republic (or another Serbia).

[briant]

The job belongs to the employer, not the employee, and that idea springs from our notion of personal freedom.

The same personal freedom enjoyed by thoses living in places like China?

[A. Pole]

We need some more and vote to add the 6 in Australia first and then maybe the Canadian ones and then the UK, some parts of Mexico etc.

You will not have "some parts of Mexico". You will get the whole thing and a little more (Guatemala, Honduras etc ...)

[hedgetrimmer]

Who is involved making the FTAA a reality?


U.S. Governor of Florida Jeb Bush speaks to Costa Rican businessmen at the Marriot Hotel in San Jose, February 17, 2004. Bush is traveling in Central America to promote commercial exchanges between the region and the state of Florida, and to promote the city of Miami as a regional headquarters of the FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas) pact. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate

[briant]

Thoses who themselves have no real skills are trying to reinstitute serfdom; And they are appauded for loving freedom.

[William Terrell]

They are creatures of United States law which can be changed at the will of the People. They have no natural rights which cannot be reached by legislation (although their owners do).

Bump to that!

[Cronos]

You will get the whole thing and a little more (Guatemala, Honduras etc ...)

Oh, we can get a little bit. The Chiapas want to have their own coutnry in the south. Let them. While I'm not advocatinga nother Mexican-American war, remember that we DID take California, Texas (at least American settlers did) and the western states from them. We can do so again. The Mexicans may prosper when they are states in the US. Then Guatemala and Belize will be a problem, but they'll be better off than they are now. Eventually I'd like to see a real United States of America -- all of America under the stars and stripes.

[Cronos]

Obviously developing the USA's underdevelopment by developing Red China's industrial and technical strength is considered a good thing.

What if we added Mexican states to the US and harnessed that lower cost labour to be in direct competition with China's lower costs?

[raybbr]

Then it must have been the perception of tens of millions as well. The GOP is touting how the spending those checks has helped the economy "recover".

[jpl]

You think this article is helpful? You think someone who is unemployed and about to lose his home to foreclosure will become convinced by something like this to vote Republican?

I'm absolutely certain that Ronald Reagan would never have won two landslide elections running on the Neal Boortz philosophy. Why, that old Commie bastard actually had the nerve to protect Harley Davidson from going out of business!

[raybbr]

Then don't forget their final statement in article 3-- Social justice and social security are bases of lasting peace. Social justice which is the antithesis of America's founding, equal justice.

It sounds as if the proponents of the NAFTA and FTAA acts are supporting socialism. How is that possible?