Allen spins, economy deteriorates, middle class burns...

By: Info_Tech_Guy
Published On: 9/8/2006 7:00:51 AM

Evidence abounds that the middle class jobs crisis continues to grow. The best middle class manufacturing and white collar jobs are moving offshore -- even departing faster in some high tech areas. Meanwhile the Bush administration and elected officials continue to deny or minimise the significance of these trends. Here is yet another report which somehow WAS NOT suppressed by Bush appointees and allies in Congress. (You'll recall that an earlier GAO report released before the 2004 elections was rewritten by Bush appointees, information and analysis was gutted and the original report was suppressed until pressure from Congressional Democrats secured release -- TWO YEARS LATE.

GAO Confirms That U.S. Jobs Still Going Overseas
Press Releases :: September 7, 2006

http://sciencedems.h...

(Washington, DC)  Today, the GAO released a report on the offshoring of American jobs.  This report, entitled, OFFSHORING: U.S. Semiconductor and Software Industries Increasingly Produce in China and India (GAO-06-423), largely confirms the findings in the Technology Administration+óGé¼Gäós long-suppressed report on off-shoring in knowledge intensive industries. 

GAO found, as Commerce analysts did before them, that offshoring continues to increase in both the Semiconductor and Software industries. 

House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) offered the following comment on the new GAO report:

+óGé¼+ôOffshoring is moving up the technological food chain with more sophisticated jobs and facilities going overseas.  For workers this translates into flat job growth and stagnant wages, which is hard on American families and our communities.  We need to find ways for American workers to compete in the world economy without sacrificing their standard of living.

I applaud the GAO for initiating this study and would welcome additional studies on offshoring trends and their impact on the U.S. workforce.  What has been a disappointment to me is the Administration+óGé¼Gäós and the Republican Congressional Leadership+óGé¼Gäós lack of interest in understanding what is happening to working Americans. Without that understanding, we cannot develop effective solutions to keep high-wage, high-tech jobs in the United States.+óGé¼-¥ 

Science Democrats have worked to bring the truth about offshoring to light.  They released a report this July, written in 2004 by Technology Administration analysts, after the Department of Commerce repeatedly refused to make it public.  That report is entitled An Overview of Workforce Globalization in the U.S. IT Services and Software, U.S. Semiconductor and the U.S. Pharmaceuticals Industries.  It largely supports the GAO+óGé¼Gäós findings.

GAO REPORT:  http://www.gao.gov/n...

Comments



And Allen Opposes Helping Those Displaced (PM - 9/8/2006 9:47:36 AM)
Put yourself in the shoes of someone who has just lost a $15 an hour job, and your unemployment is up.  Maybe you are retraining but in the meantime you take a low end job. 

Yet George Allen doesn't want these people to make a decent minimum wage.

Here's the latest support FOR the minimum wage.

CNN Poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation. Aug. 30-Sept. 2, 2006. N=1,004 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.  .

"Do you favor or oppose Congress passing legislation that would raise the minimum wage?"
  .

Favor 86
Oppose 13

George Allen had a privileged upbringing.  But he doesn't care about others who were not so fortunate.

And shame on you people who work for Allen and read this blog for "intelligence"



Time to put Allen on unemployment. (loboforestal - 9/8/2006 9:35:39 PM)
What has been a disappointment to me is the Administration’s and the Republican Congressional Leadership’s lack of interest in understanding what is happening to working Americans.

Maybe then he'll understand.



I don't think he's eligible for unemployment benefits (RayH - 9/9/2006 4:25:55 PM)

Let the healing begin.