Please take a moment to read this New York Post article about job outsourcing, which points out:
“The US shed some 5.38 million manufacturing jobs alone between 2000 and 2009 — 2.4 million attributed directly to our trade deficit with China — Commerce Department data shows.”
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, is proposing a response to the outsourcing of one type job – call center responders. He has written legislation imposing a .25 surcharge on calls that businesses transfer out of the United States.
I think it should be $1 per call transferred and $5 for any call that goes directly to a call center outside of the United States. I have contacted Sen. Schumer’s office and will share information on which committee is handling this as soon as possible.
Gregg Potter
President, Lehigh Valley labor Council, Pa.
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Posted August 4, 2010 at 3:24 pm, in Free Speech Zone
August 5th, 2010 at 10:52 am
I really agree with you!
I also believe that maybe President Obama should lead the US congress to create legislation that will repeal all of the “Free Trade” laws that caused our factories and our jobs to relocate overseas ! ! !
Only repeal of the “Free Trade” laws that caused US businesses to move their US factories and the associated jobs for US citizens overseas and lay off all of the US employees and take advantage of lower labor and environmental costs available in foreign countries might bring those jobs back to the USA, but this will take years, and require that the USA reduce the labor costs and the environmental costs of manufacturing things in the USA.
August 5th, 2010 at 11:01 am
Maybe we could create US import tariffs high enough to prohibit imported products from being imported and sold in the USA.
This will create re-industrialization, stop the flow of title to privately owned US assets from the USA, re-create the value of the US dollar, and also create manufacturing jobs for US citizens.
Yes, the consumers will have to pay many times the current price of each consumer item if these items are made with US labor in the USA, but maybe this can avert a second USA revolution that might be more bloody than 1776.