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Bills to keep jobs in USA create uproar
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Posted on 07/29/2003 7:09:27 AM PDT by Mick2000

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Some U.S. congressmen are actually trying to do something about the jobs loss to H1B, L1, and outsourcing
1 posted on 07/29/2003 7:09:28 AM PDT by Mick2000
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Let's just hope that the cure isn't worse than the disease.
2 posted on 07/29/2003 7:10:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Which is opposed by a Corporate America more concerned about the bottom line than the welfare of the country it supposedly resides in.
3 posted on 07/29/2003 7:11:08 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Mick2000
Congress can start by abolishing the federal income tax and eliminating the junk science environmental regulations and antiquated labor laws from the 1930s.
4 posted on 07/29/2003 7:13:05 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (EEE)
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To: Mick2000
I sent an email to the GOP asking them what their stance was going to be a few days ago with regard to offshoring. I got a reply back that it was being added to the Chairman's daily report. If I get a more definitive response I plan on sharing it with the rest of Free Republic.
5 posted on 07/29/2003 7:13:16 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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It would be good if the Administration got out in front of this issue before some of the "Gang of Seven" steal it.
6 posted on 07/29/2003 7:13:43 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: Willie Green
BUMP
7 posted on 07/29/2003 7:14:01 AM PDT by ServesURight (FReecerely Yours,)
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Which is opposed by a Corporate America more concerned about the bottom line than the welfare of the country it supposedly resides in.

Well said.

BUMP!

8 posted on 07/29/2003 7:17:47 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: Semper Paratus
Yes it would be good - but I wouldn't count on it.

If Bush cared about border and immigration issues, we'd know it by now.
9 posted on 07/29/2003 7:18:23 AM PDT by adam_az
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They see themselves as "multinational" now and have no loyalty.

These "multinationals" should be stopped from making campaign contributions and buying influence then, since they are beholden to foreign powers!
10 posted on 07/29/2003 7:19:45 AM PDT by adam_az
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"Which is opposed by a Corporate America more concerned about the bottom line than the welfare of the country it supposedly resides in."

Many in "Corporate America" view themselves as global "citizens of the world" and don't care about anything having to do with their own nation or culture. The people who assend in Corporate America are made from the same cloth as those who go to Washington and look the other way as our culture is destroyed. They are all, for the most part, the scum of the earth.


11 posted on 07/29/2003 7:21:19 AM PDT by vigilo (I have spoken. (har, har, snicker, snicker))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
And the Food and Drug Administration, too.
12 posted on 07/29/2003 7:22:00 AM PDT by snopercod
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To: Mick2000
"The Department of Defense provision is what we call a unicorn provision — because what they want to buy doesn't exist. Flat-panel screens are no longer made in the United States," says Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America. "You would have to recreate those industries in the United States, and those industries would exist for only one client, the Department of Defense," he says.

Gee I guess the Springfield and Harpers ferry arsenals should never have been established and the uSA from 1789 to 1812 should haver bought all its cannon and muskets from England. Becdause teh flat pannels are not currently manufactured in the USA and they actually are critical to the defense of the USA maybe we do need some production capability here. What a concept.

13 posted on 07/29/2003 7:22:17 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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Wasn't this Pat Buchanan's platform?

The problem is that the the power brokers within the GOP were terrified that someone like Pat Buchanan would get the GOP nomination so they went on a smear campaign to ruin his chances at winning more than New Hampshire. Such was the origins of the policy of screwing Americans through the practice of job exportation. Ironic though that in their infinite wisdom they thought it was OK to push factories out the country since union rats weren't going to vote 'R' anyway, but in their philosophical position that "free trade" meant that all jobs were subject to exportation (a position designed to marginalize Pat) they ended up screwing their own voter base.
14 posted on 07/29/2003 7:23:13 AM PDT by Dr Warmoose
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To: clamper1797; sarcasm; BrooklynGOP; A. Pole; Zorrito; GiovannaNicoletta; Caipirabob; Ed_in_NJ; ...
Domestic content and offshoring ping.
15 posted on 07/29/2003 7:23:15 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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Then they can be multinational and not US companies but when their offices overseas are blown up and their employees are killed by terrorists, don't ask for the military of the United States, to step in and help, they can just go f... themselves. You either pay taxes here with employees here or go to hell.
16 posted on 07/29/2003 7:24:03 AM PDT by samuel_adams_us
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To: Mick2000
My Toyota is made in the US. My Honda is made in the US. What is wrong with having foreign companies setting up manufacturing facilities in the US?

Where Congress comes in is to make sure that the business environment in the US is good. This includes taxes, environmental laws, labor laws, educational levels, etc, and maybe occasionally over-riding state laws on occasion.IMHO

17 posted on 07/29/2003 7:24:49 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (The Union forever!)
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Its too hard for businesses to manufacture in America. <sarcasm
18 posted on 07/29/2003 7:24:59 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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This will kill the JSF..
19 posted on 07/29/2003 7:25:10 AM PDT by a_Turk (Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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To: vigilo
The fact is, the US is considered a mature and saturated market, with the emerging markets in Asia and the former Eastern Bloc countries. So companies are doing whatever they can to gain a foothold into these markets. Part of that price is using local workers. Add in the recent technological advances and there you go. I don't think that much can be done about this, other to adapt. Sometimes all you have is a bad choice and an even worse choice to choose from. I think protectionism is the "even worse choice."
20 posted on 07/29/2003 7:26:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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