Posted on 05/13/2006 4:29:34 PM PDT by ProCivitas
Exporting America: The list
Here is a list of companies we've confirmed are "Exporting America." These are U.S. companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers. A 3Com 3M A. Schulman, Inc. Aalfs Manufacturing Aavid Thermal Technologies Abbott Laboratories ABC-NACO Accenture Access Electronics Accuride Corporation Accuride International Acme Packaging Adaptec ADC Admanco Adobe Air Adobe Systems Admanco Advanced Energy Industries Aei Acquisitions Aetna Affiliated Computer Services AFS Technologies A.G. Edwards Agere Systems Agilent Technologies A.H. Schreiber Co. AIG Air Products & ChemicalsÊ Alamo Rent A Car Albany International Corp. Albertson's Alcoa Alcoa Fujikura Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation ... Allstate ... Altria Group Amazon.com Ames True Temper AMD Americ Disc American Dawn American Express American Fashion American Greetings American Household American Management Systems American Standard American Tool American Uniform Company
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Who's left?, it might be shorter.
Good article. Free trade is not free after all.
Most of American workers vote for the Democraps. These voters are jealouse and envious of any success by others. They hate capitalism, the engine that creates jobs (money to pay mortgages). Read what the Democraps and the media say about Halliburton Oil. If I were Haliburton I would not tolerate the abuse for very long.
Your comment about free trade reminded me of a W.C. Fields line in a movie and it may apply in a parallel manner:
Fields was seated at an improvised poker table on a train and was shuffling cards. Another passenger walking by says "Oh...a game of chance?" and Fields replies "Not the way I play it".
Where is Tyson and Perdue Foods? Where are all the meat packing plants?
Lou Dobbs is an As*hat, welcome to FR BTW.
The problem goes way beyond this list. And for many more years than anyone can fathom.
And this excerpt is just some of the A's. Click the site for the full list.
Was Perot "wrong" in his approach, or his message?
So when's Lou Dobbs going to run for President?
..some of what he said was accurate, but he was the wrong person to lead any kind of political party or movement.
Heinz has factories in Indonesia and Thailand.....5-8 dollars a day for the workers.
Lou Dobbs and the other MSM Hacks and Congress critters who for the most part have never had to put up their own money and then work like hell to keep it have no idea what the real problem is in sending jobs overseas.
Labor is only a small part of the crisis. The EPA, EEOC, OSHA, Taxes, Federal regulations, Local regulations, Lawyers out of control, ecologists, make doing business in the United States a nightmare. The Disabilities act is an example, a noble effort but makes no sense when you look at it honestly but puts a huge burden on business. Regardless what the Liberals think, these businesses ain't going overseas just due to labor costs. Especially the Lawyer problem, loser pays would help a lot.
Lou and his Liberal pals are killing the goose that is laying the Golden Eggs.
Equality is great but not when we are all equally poor.
Some are good policy /civic standards of reasonable health/safety, and not dumping pollution/externality costs onto one's neighbors. Others like some you cite, are evidence of a degenerately litigious culture, where public employees aren't sufficiently accountable.
Lou Dobbs is a Michael Savage protectionist. He may be smart when it comes to trespassing the border, but he sure is not a capitalist. He is against tax cuts and free trade, in my book he has morphed into a socialist while he has been working at CNN so long.
Jonathan
There is something you're missing. Outsourcing foreign labor and illegal immigration are opposite sides of the same coin. Their purposes and results are the same, in spite of the fact they come from different sources.
Seems to be a good imitation of Huey Long to me.
What article..? It's just a list.
Lou Dobbs is another fear-monger who still believes in a post-WWII economy of "Us vs. The World". It's not like that anymore.
British Petroleum, Nokia, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes, Michelin, etc. all export jobs from their countries to the U.S. Pretty good outfits to work for, I've heard.
Both. He offered no solutions, and proved he was a mental case when he accused GHW Bush of trying to sabotage his daughter's wedding.
That's not outsourcing. That's bringing production home. Anritsu is a Japanese company.
Nice attitude to take. FYI, a majority of the working class in private industry voted GOP in 2004, and have been the key to the GOP being in the majority, or do you think the GOP winning in states such as OH, MO, and WV are just flukes?
Keep the attitude up for long, and keep the attitude that profits must be made at all and in cost in the short term by job outsorucing and importation of cheap labor, and the GOP will clearly be out of the majority.
Outcomes the same.
Why didn't you buy the company?
Oh you are an OBL, figures you dont understand the long term.
Sadly the "free" traders here have no sympathy at all, to me its really an extension of an arrogant jock-frat type attitude one sees at universities. Anyways, there is a train wreck heading towrds America between open borders and Free Trade, and the results scare me, the results being a US that is a Social Democracy with social problems of Brazil.
Why not??? Haliburton wouldn't make a dime if it didn't have any employees...
We must find a way to hamstring the companies on this list in the name of national security.
Both are symptomatic of a government that can't summon the courage to deal with problems it created and THE PEOPLE WHO KEEP ELECTING INCUMBENTS!
Heinz still has plants in the U.S...As far as I know, Americans buy American made Heinz Ketchup and pickles...
'Jolly Green Giant' vegetables however, all come from Mexico...
The solution is to allow any company that wants to, to move to China where there are no rules and regulations...As long as those companies are not allowed to sell their products back to the U.S., things will work out fine...
I support that 100 percent...
Most all the automobile plants were forced to locate in the U.S. due to that ugly free trader word "tariffs".
Don't you remember when Clinton put 100% tariffs on luxury cars. Everyone thought they would never buy a Mercedes again. Weep, weep, cry, cry. Daimler and Mercedes merged with tariffs as one of the reasons. Then a plant was built in Alabama.
Welcome to the 21st Century.
I didn't hear anyone complaining while the USA prospered and most of the 3rd world languished in poverty.
NOTHING is owed to us.
LOL!! You two are funny. If a Japanese company was bought by an American company, and the AMerican company brought the production work back to the states, you both would be cheering.
When a Japanese company acts like you'd like an American company to act, you complain that they're stabbing Americans in the back.
The economic ignorance of some on FR is astounding.
No on else in his job as a 6 pm news host has done anything even close especially on the enemy of all freedom net CNN.
Don't worry about national security. We will soon have a national ID card that will solve all our problems. Haven't you wondered where "Tom Ridge" the first director of Homeland Security has been lately?
U.S. firms protest deal on ID cards
By Eric Lipton The New York Times
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2006
WASHINGTON Executives from some leading U.S. identity-verification companies are pushing Congress to rescind a provision of a law that they said could lead to a foreign-owned company's handling of sensitive personal records for up to 750,000 port workers.
The Department of Homeland Security, as part of the budget law passed last year, was ordered to hire the American Association of Airport Executives, an aviation trade group, to process applications for a new tamper-proof identification card for maritime workers.
Representative Harold Rogers, Republican of Kentucky, the chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the homeland security budget, had pressed for the language, saying the trade association, a nonprofit group, could expedite the project because it had performed similar work for airport workers.
But in recent days, documents have circulated in Washington showing that the association, before the budget bill became law, was offering prospective investors a role in future contracts in exchange for investment of as much as $25 million.
Daon, an Irish biometrics company with offices in Reston, Virginia, ultimately bought 51 percent of the new entity, said Andrew Sherman, a Washington lawyer who helped handle the transaction. Government records show that the new company, Security Biometric Clearing Network, was incorporated in March in Delaware as the Department of Homeland Security moved to start issuing the new contracts. That transaction, which was disclosed last week, is evoking protests.
Daon's board includes Tom Ridge, the former secretary of homeland security, and the company has already sold its software to the government for some of these same programs.
"Sensitive personal biometric and biographical data should more appropriately be managed and maintained by the government and housed in a federal facility," the International Biometric Industry Association, a trade group based in Washington, said recently.
Steve Lunceford, a spokesman for BearingPoint, a company in Virginia that wanted to bid on the project, said the special treatment for the airport group raised questions that could delay the new identification cards' being issued.
"This is going to allow a foreign firm to collect and maintain the personal records of 750,000 American workers," he said. "That does not seem right."
WASHINGTON
This is more corruption.
Yeah. Those scheming little potato-eaters just can't wait to screw over America. /sarcasm.
There is nothing like a little inside wheeling and dealing.
Dobbs, John Kerry and apparently yourself, all agree that we need more government intervention in the economy to do something about all these Benedict Arnold CEO's practicing their right to trade freely. Can't have too much freedom - wouldn't be conservative.
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Thanks for the post. Very interesting stuff.
What are potato-eaters?
I'm a potatoe eater...No one's ever called me one tho...
Really I am curious. What does it mean?
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