27 October 2004

Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy – or go on Prozac?

That, in essence, is the George W. Bush answer to outsourcing and mass displacement of American jobs to foreign locales. Kerry/Edwards have released their plan to keep high-paying jobs in America.
The Bush Administration refuses to acknowledge the extent of the challenge facing America's innovation-intensive services - a key engine of our 21st century economy. George Bush has even pronounced outsourcing "a plus" and has refused to take measures to defend America's competitive advantage or to help white-collar professionals displaced by the new wave of offshore outsourcing. This is not only insensitive to the needs of American families. It is short-sighted, blunting our competitive edge and putting the futures of even more Americans in doubt.

I have doubts that many of these proposals will have a major impact on the problem (or even be implemented – a Kerry victory may mean nothing but four years of Republican controlled Congress blockade), but at least one side has acknowledged that a problem does indeed exist. As opposed, to Republican appeasement in face of corporate and lobbyist public relations blitzes, that the issue is overblown and insignificant.

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