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pscot

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1. I remember reading, back in the '90s

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Thu Jul 12, 2012, 11:27 AM

Jul 2012

a comment by a software engineer from Massachusetts to the effect that factory workers losing jobs to offshoring was just tough shit. Proof that an EE degree is no guarantee of intelligence.

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It�s not just manufacturing gone overseas [View all] NNN0LHI Jul 2012 OP

I remember reading, back in the '90s pscot Jul 2012 #1

Depends how you look at manufacturing hack89 Jul 2012 #2

I expect US manufacturing to increase during the next decade FreeJoe Jul 2012 #11

Wait until the EPA and the Sierra Club are finished with coal badtoworse Jul 2012 #14

Now that white-collars get outsourced, maybe it'll get the attention it deserves. Brickbat Jul 2012 #3

Outsource the CEO's mikeysnot Jul 2012 #4

The bottom line is that we have to find a way to grow the private sector in the US. badtoworse Jul 2012 #5

Staying with the electric power industry is not a panacea either NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #6

What you've described has been ongoing for some time, mainly with pensions badtoworse Jul 2012 #12

He left out Human Resources GarroHorus Jul 2012 #7

And I HATE the automated phone voicemail systems they have now... cascadiance Jul 2012 #8

Ouch! ananda Jul 2012 #9

JP Morgan gets paid to run the food stamp program and they outsourced that Ghost of Huey Long Jul 2012 #10

Seriously? Our own IRS outsourcing to India? badtoworse Jul 2012 #13

Think I would need to see better evidence than an anonymous Internet posting to believe that one NNN0LHI Jul 2012 #16

HELLO, free traders, how is this good for America? Zalatix Jul 2012 #15