In case you missed it...NOW w/Bill Moyers...America and Jobs...Outsourcing

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http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/outsourcedebate.html

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The debate is complex. It's not just manufacturing jobs that are headed overseas but also technology and service jobs, bringing new life to economies in India and the former Eastern bloc. The British financial publication THE ECONOMIST recently outraged some readers by labeling outsourcing fears "The Great Hollowing-out Myth" and maintaining that "contrary to what John Kerry and George Bush seem to think, outsourcing actually sustains American jobs."



http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/outsource.html

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Overview
The numbers are startling: 3.3 million jobs in less than 15 years. That's the number of U.S. jobs expected to be lost overseas by 2015 according to a recent report by Forrester Research. But the sheer size of the exodus isn't what's worrying analysts the most — it's the type of jobs. Some critics are worried that this time it's the corporate main office is getting ready to shut down and head out of the country, packing up cubicles and all. As reported on NOW, a new wave of jobs are leaving U.S. shores: software development, customer service, accounting, back-office support, product development and other white collar endeavors.

And it's not just technology jobs that have ended up in India. According to Deloitte Consulting, 2 million jobs will move from the United States and Europe to cheaper locations in the financial services business alone. The exodus of service jobs across all industries could be as high as 4 million. It forecasts that three-quarters of leading financial institutions and investment banks will allocate tasks to Third World countries in the next five years and that India will be at the top of the list.

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1. kick

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2. .

[kodi]

3. ole' lou dobbs sounded like he had been reading up on marx

but dobbs is a liberal, a 19th century liberal, who thinks that government has obligations to its citizens and those obligations are not met fully by the martket.

his new book stated clearly that the pronblem in america is that the corporations have taken over the government. i thought he was channeling chomsky for whole gulps of time when he criticized corporations for manipulating government for the benefit of stockholders while citizens got screwed.

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5. He said last night..the US would be complete toast in a decade....

....that the three most important things created in the past which bring us to today have been...democracy....corporate power...corporate propaganda which is used to protect corporate power from democracy....very true and extremely frightening as well. :hi:

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4. what I want to ask Lou Dobbs

Since he donated to and presumably voted for Bush in 2000, could he PLEASE atone for that and vote for Kerry this time around?

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6. Hear Hear....

....I think he's seen through his *faux* pas now! :)