The exporting of American prosperity

spyderman
spyderman Posts: 678
edited February 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
Add Travelocity to the long list of companies exporting jobs to India, where they're willing to work for 10 percent of the wages paid to US employees.

The trend represents a potential seismic shift: In the next 15 years, American employers will move about 3.3 million white-collar jobs and $136 billion in wages overseas, according to Forrester Research.

Among the "who's who" of fortune 500 companies exporting America:

Procter & Gamble
JP Morgan Chase
Capital One
Lucent
Delta Airlines
General Electric
Microsoft
Charles Schwab - followed by a 25 percent companywide layoff
Franklin Templeton Investments
State of California
IBM
Electronic Data Systems
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Arthur Andersen
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Target,
Visa
American Express
Gap
Boeing
Citigroup
Nordstrom
Bank of America
Oracle
AOL
Cisco Systems
Hewlett-Packard
EMC Corp
Epson
Palm
Apple Computer
Sun Microsystems
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Motorola
Intel
Texas Instruments
Siemens
Dell
L'Oreal
Nokia
Casio
Samsung
Honda

During the boom years of the 1990s, mass layoffs eliminated far more jobs than are now being lost to offshoring or imports, but those jobs were quickly replaced. Mass layoffs idled more than one million U.S. workers a year on average between 1995 and 2000, but the economy generated more than three million jobs a year. From January through August of this year, mass layoffs have idled 1.3 million workers, and no jobs have been created. Instead, the economy is down half a million jobs for the year.

The real question the Bush Administration needs to answer is, given the fact that jobs are moving overseas, why has it not pursued policies to stop the flow and create jobs in the United States?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,746
    edited April 2004
    How about you stop posting all this political stuff, the vast majority are tired of it. :rolleyes:
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,779
    edited April 2004
    I AGREE!

    Sypder...

    BE QUIET! LOL!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    -- edit: not appropriate language --
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited April 2004
    Spyder, ITA with what ATC, Brett, Sid, & F1 all said. Enough is enough.

    We all know what's going on in the world and with the job situation. *itching about it here is NOT going to change it.

    I come here to learn about audio stuff, not to be preached to by you about the sad state of affairs in the US or anywhere else.

    If that's your goal in life. please find another board that is appropriate for those discussions.

    We all thank you in advance for your cooperation.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2004
    Let him post what he wants, just don't read it. We have far less intellectual, and annoying things talked about by some individuals that constantly gets responded to around here.

    Also realize that there is much more to the story than displayed by Spyder. It's just a single slant on the actual events. It is not as cut and dry as he would like it be.

    To say it's a sad state of affairs for the nation is misleading, but I agree 100% it's just not worth the useless verbal discussion that will be created.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited April 2004
    Weirdest thing today.

    My **** smells like rotten meatloaf.

    How do I know? When I wiped, I got some on my hand and gave it a whiff.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • racer4551
    racer4551 Posts: 373
    edited April 2004
    RuSsMaN you are one sick mother..................no words can describe:confused::D :cool: :eek:
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited April 2004
    Russ's last statement contained more maturity and intelligence than anything Spyder said in the last week :D
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited April 2004
    Also more knowledge about how things work ...
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  • spyderman
    spyderman Posts: 678
    edited April 2004
    No, you shut the f' up....

    There was only one line about politics at the very end.

    WTF, can't anybody say WTF they feel in the f'n "OFF TOPIC" room? Am I f'n talkin' your f'n language now?

    That's what amazes me about this place. If what I say really bothers you then don't read it. It's that simple.

    It hasn't happened to me yet, but when your jobs go over-seas and your stuck at home wondering how you're gonna feed your family, perhaps you'll wish you really looked at the facts and spoke up once in your life...

    Oops, I'm sorry. Never mind, it won't affect you because how can they outsource a job to India where you say "Want fries with dat"? My bad.

    But no, your minds will be too numb from watchin' so much MTV, and the fumes from pumpin' gas at the full service line, to know the difference. Oh, wait, you won't be able to get that job either because of all the Mexicans, damn...

    Perhaps you can go work for Circuit City or Best Buy...
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited April 2004
    Run for office then, kid. :rolleyes:
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by spyderman
    WTF, can't anybody say WTF they feel in the f'n "OFF TOPIC" room?
    Because with every post you demonstrate how little you know of how things work.

    HEY MODS ... Can we please add an 11th Rule ... NO POLITICAL DISCUSSIONS ...
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by spyderman
    There was only one line about politics at the very end.

    WTF, can't anybody say WTF they feel in the f'n "OFF TOPIC" room? Am I f'n talkin' your f'n language now?

    That's what amazes me about this place. If what I say really bothers you then don't read it. It's that simple.
    Apparently you're not too bright......if what you took from my post is that I spelled out the word bleep, you missed the point.

    How many times do you think you can spout the same thing before people are going to get irritated at you? (for saying the same thing, all reasoning *or lack thereof* aside)

    I don't care how justified you feel. Quit acting like the people that get bothered with what you say are in the wrong for it. Ask Demi how well that technique goes over here.

    To clarify, I'm not telling you to bleep because I'm some right wing whacko. I'm telling you to bleep because you've said basically the SAME thing in about 5 different threads. Political BS (regardless of political affiliation) isn't welcome on these boards (even with your unique and brilliant interpretation on the worlds events).

    Don't play victim when people react to your drivel. I realize that you're probably an attention **** and just want to stir the pot. I'm just telling you it's old (already), and unwelcome...(read bleep )......
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited April 2004
    I wack my bean while reading U.S. News & World Reports.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited April 2004
    Mark:

    You're a very ill man! Seek medical attention. ;)

    In other news, I DJed last night at the club and there were alot of hot boobies and **** pouncing around on stage. I particularly liked the 2 female customers that were all over each other for the majority of the night. I got on the mic and told them they were hired. They looked up at me, smiled and started jiggling their boobies at me. It was a beautiful site!

    So whats this about Russman scraping crap off his **** and sniffing it? Russ, see my above recomendation to Mark. :D


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  • spyderman
    spyderman Posts: 678
    edited April 2004
    Yeah dorok, there's not enough pics in US News & World Reports...
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  • spyderman
    spyderman Posts: 678
    edited April 2004
    Brett, lets see, you used the f-word in like a 40 font size on it.

    Why would I even read further?

    Think 'bout it.

    Of all the responses, Russman's was the best! A true artist at the sublime...
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  • spyderman
    spyderman Posts: 678
    edited April 2004
    Nice touch JD, mixing speakers and nekked chix....
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited April 2004
    Step 1. Click the profile button for Spyderman.

    Step 2. Click 'Add Spyderman to your Ignore List.'
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    Good call FS......done, and just like THAT, no more listening to that imparticular dumbass........
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited April 2004
    Actually, I prefer 'bleep' better.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited April 2004
    Now that's cool ...

    spyderman
    04-03-2004 11:14 AM This person is on your Ignore List. To view this post click [here]
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  • PhantomOG
    PhantomOG Posts: 2,409
    edited April 2004
    ah dammit. when you put someone on your ignore list threads they start don't disappear, only their posts get changed.

    that's too bad, i guess i'll still have to wade through mountains of his crap when i come to off-topic from now on. such a shame.
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,623
    edited April 2004
    But look how short his posts are now.........:D
    comment comment comment comment. bitchy.
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  • shepx2
    shepx2 Posts: 646
    edited April 2004
    Been added to my ignore list as well. I can only stand so much liberal whining nonsense.

    If I wanted to hear whining, I'd watch "The View".
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  • madmax
    madmax Posts: 12,434
    edited April 2004
    I normally don't complain but it is getting old. Get the rat out of your **** and join the republican party...
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  • fireshoes
    fireshoes Posts: 3,167
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by RuSsMaN
    Actually, I prefer 'bleep ' better.

    Hey, you can still lay the STFU on him , whether you read his posts or not. In fact, it might be more enjoyable!
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2004
    Originally posted by madmax
    I normally don't complain but it is getting old. Get the rat out of your **** and join the republican party...
    madmax
    I stood on my chair and this one still went over my head...
    :confused:
    More later,
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