Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (40916)	3/31/2004 10:26:00 AM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

So "they're" forecasting higher sales?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (40916)	3/31/2004 9:02:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Richard Clarke on MSNBC's "Hardball" tonight ____________________________________ Full transcript of March 31 interview msnbc.msn.com

To: TigerPaw who wrote (40916)	4/1/2004 12:36:17 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Outsourcing robs U.S. jobs _______________________________ Editorial by John J. Sweeney USA TODAY Mar 31 '04 America's jobs crisis affects all of us -- from university Ph.D.s to recent high school graduates. Every month produces additional pink slips for autoworkers, radiologists and computer engineers. In three years, we have lost nearly 3 million private-sector jobs. Manufacturers have slashed payrolls for 43 straight months. We have shed half a million information jobs since December 2000, nearly as many as we added the preceding three years. The so-called recovery began more than two years ago, but still there are three unemployed workers for every job opening, and thousands have abandoned the workforce. The jobs crisis is real -- and one real reason for it is that American companies are shipping jobs overseas. Economy.com, an independent research group, estimates 1 million of the nearly 3 million jobs lost have been sent abroad since 2001. Analysts at the Haas School of Business at the University of California-Berkeley say 14 million white-collar jobs are at risk. The consequences of sending jobs overseas devastate workers such as California mom Natasha Humphries, laid off by her high-tech firm after it flew her to India to train her replacement. Now, she has joined individuals from every state on a bus tour through the heartland to shine a light on the jobs crisis. Other riders include people such as 53-year-old Dan Pechek from Minnesota, unemployed and fearful 12 months after losing his paper-mill job, and Dawn Teo from Arizona, working to save U.S. jobs after past employers made her reorganize work and lay off workers to move jobs overseas. The riders will tell you that solving the jobs crisis requires changing policies and priorities -- and the occupant of the White House. For even as the export of good jobs accelerates, President Bush pushes tax breaks for companies producing overseas. As our manufacturing sector reels, he is negotiating dozens of flawed trade agreements, threatening even more jobs. As solid middle-class jobs slip away, Bush seeks more tax cuts for the super-rich. Solutions to our jobs crisis are not simple. Education and training matter, but only in combination with effective policies to create and keep good jobs in America. Above all, we need leaders who believe -- as the bus riders do -- that their job is to work for our jobs. *** John J. Sweeney is president of the 13 million-member AFL-CIO . © Copyright 2004 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. keepmedia.com