Okay, let's start my pro-welfare rant with this fact: 'Salaries for U.S.-based software engineers start at $75,000 a year; India-based engineers start at $15,000.' I dare anyone of the anti-welfare bigots to try to live on $15,000 a year............IN THIS COUNTRY! I hear all of the time how people would'nt be on welfare if they just got an education......after all, they say, working at Walmart was never meant to be a career. News flash morons.......if you got an education in computers, in order to make a decent living, you're fucked because you want money to show for your education, but the companies shipped away the jobs so they didn't have to pay you. Fact: 'When did offshoring become so prevalent?
The trend began in earnest in the late 1970s at large manufacturers such as General Electric. GE’s then CEO, Jack Welch, who was widely respected by other corporate chieftains, argued that public corporations owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, not employees. Therefore, Welch said, companies should seek to lower costs and maximize profits by moving operations wherever is cheapest.'
The trend began in earnest in the late 1970s at large manufacturers such as General Electric. GE’s then CEO, Jack Welch, who was widely respected by other corporate chieftains, argued that public corporations owe their primary allegiance to stockholders, not employees. Therefore, Welch said, companies should seek to lower costs and maximize profits by moving operations wherever is cheapest.'
Why did they ship your jobs away? Well besides money, here is another interesting factoid: 'Part of the value is that foreign workers can be required to work under conditions that would be illegal in the U.S. In Shenzhen, China, for example, Foxconn, the subsidiary of a Taiwanese company, employs 250,000 people to assemble iPods and iPhones for Apple, working long, monotonous days with a handful of timed bathroom breaks. Foxconn workers earn an average wage of $292 a month. Last year 18 Foxconn employees at the Shenzhen complex attempted suicide, 14 successfully.' That's right............because we as Americans have been taught to value our lives we are not worth the time, or effort, of the rich stockholders. All because we won't work for peanuts and take our chances of being maimed daily at work. Next time someone just says "if they would only work for it, get an education, or any other of the totally inane things they say......you have my permission to punch them right in the mouth!!!
Another fact: Is more offshoring inevitable?
Yes, unless the federal government decides to discourage it. Currently, the U.S. levies no tax on U.S. firms’ overseas earnings as long as those profits remain overseas. That policy essentially encourages companies to reinvest their profits outside the U.S. And to give companies even more incentive to hire overseas, the Internal Revenue Service allows companies that move factories abroad to deduct from their taxable income the cost of closing their U.S. plants. Democrats in the Senate attempted last autumn to close those loopholes and create incentives to repatriate profits and jobs, but PRO-BUSINESS REPUBLICANS blocked their proposal. “The whole concept of offshoring,” said Mark Toon of offshoring advisory firm EquaTerra, “is here to stay.”
I am shocked, utterly shocked, the same people (republicans) that are so anti-welfare...........so "they should learn to stand on their own two feet" are the same people who give the tax breaks, and freedom, to ship the jobs overseas. I am simply shocked!!! (I cannot say this with enough SARCASM!!!)
Fact: 'A study found that 56% of federal and state dollars spent between 2009 and 2011 on welfare programs — including Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — flowed to working families and individuals with jobs. In some industries, about half the workforce relies on welfare.' Lots of people say "It's because Americans want too much money...they won't work for less." Of course, the people who say this are almost always older, people who already made their money off of those high paying jobs!!! This is a sort of "I got mine so who cares about you" attitude! It literally makes me sick to my stomach.
Another thing that I hear a lot is "people aren't willing to work anymore.......that's why they are poor. They are just lazy."
Fact: The American economy has stopped delivering the broadly shared prosperity that the nation grew accustomed to after World War II. The explanation for why that is begins with the millions of middle-class jobs that vanished over the past 25 years, and with what happened to the men and women who once held those jobs.
Millions of Americans are working harder than ever just to keep from falling behind; those workers have been devalued in the eyes of the economy, pushed into jobs that pay them much less than the ones they once had. (or the jobs that the whiners once felt they were owed by this country!!!)
If you have got yours: bully for you.
If you so blind you can't see the facts in front of your face: shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another fact: Is more offshoring inevitable?
Yes, unless the federal government decides to discourage it. Currently, the U.S. levies no tax on U.S. firms’ overseas earnings as long as those profits remain overseas. That policy essentially encourages companies to reinvest their profits outside the U.S. And to give companies even more incentive to hire overseas, the Internal Revenue Service allows companies that move factories abroad to deduct from their taxable income the cost of closing their U.S. plants. Democrats in the Senate attempted last autumn to close those loopholes and create incentives to repatriate profits and jobs, but PRO-BUSINESS REPUBLICANS blocked their proposal. “The whole concept of offshoring,” said Mark Toon of offshoring advisory firm EquaTerra, “is here to stay.”
I am shocked, utterly shocked, the same people (republicans) that are so anti-welfare...........so "they should learn to stand on their own two feet" are the same people who give the tax breaks, and freedom, to ship the jobs overseas. I am simply shocked!!! (I cannot say this with enough SARCASM!!!)
Fact: 'A study found that 56% of federal and state dollars spent between 2009 and 2011 on welfare programs — including Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — flowed to working families and individuals with jobs. In some industries, about half the workforce relies on welfare.' Lots of people say "It's because Americans want too much money...they won't work for less." Of course, the people who say this are almost always older, people who already made their money off of those high paying jobs!!! This is a sort of "I got mine so who cares about you" attitude! It literally makes me sick to my stomach.
Another thing that I hear a lot is "people aren't willing to work anymore.......that's why they are poor. They are just lazy."
Fact: The American economy has stopped delivering the broadly shared prosperity that the nation grew accustomed to after World War II. The explanation for why that is begins with the millions of middle-class jobs that vanished over the past 25 years, and with what happened to the men and women who once held those jobs.
Millions of Americans are working harder than ever just to keep from falling behind; those workers have been devalued in the eyes of the economy, pushed into jobs that pay them much less than the ones they once had. (or the jobs that the whiners once felt they were owed by this country!!!)
If you have got yours: bully for you.
If you so blind you can't see the facts in front of your face: shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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