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Common Dreams reports:
In yet another reminder of how corporate-friendly the Trump administration has been—despite campaign pledges to defend American workers and "buy American, hire American" rhetoric—a new study out [April 25] reveals that the president continues to reward U.S. companies who ship jobs overseas.
According to the analysis (pdf), conducted by Good Jobs Nation along with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, "the flow of federal contract awards to major offshorers has continued unabated since Trump's inauguration."
The outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is a major issue for American voters, and helped propel President Donald Trump's victory in a number of economically distressed rust-belt states.
Despite this, as many as "56 percent of the top U.S. firms awarded the largest taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016 engage in offshoring", the report notes. Further, 41 of the top 100 federal contractors--which in 2016 received a combined $176 billion in taxpayer dollars--have shipped jobs overseas and "many continue to do so today".
[...] "Even though he's signed over 60 executive orders during his first 100 days, he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas", said Joseph Geevarghese, director of Good Jobs Nation.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 26 2017, @10:07PM (3 children)
That thing with input elimination and discussion cut off seems all too familiar. ;(
Any idea how to enable a life without the need to handle loonies in any great amount?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:27AM (2 children)
There is no way to eliminate loonies because there is no one definition of what constitutes such. Loonies are certain they are the sane ones. The rest of us are fools, dupes, or evil. I've been screamed at by people who were mad that all of us buy the wrong kind of peanut butter, that only peanut butter made from nuts grown in a certain valley in Peru are acceptable. I've been called a Stalinist because I didn't think everyone should drop everything to fight for handicapped accessible cabs in NYC. Tonight at a PTA meeting a parent called me a "sugar fascist" because I didn't think we should ban treats when kids celebrate their birthdays with their class. And those are the non-right wing, non-Marxist loonies in the progressive paradise of Park Slope, Brooklyn. I've heard equal madness on the other end of the spectrum from my relatives out West where I grew up.
The only thing I'm reasonably sure of with respect to loonies and crazy talk is to answer them and their invective with firm, sharp reason. Answering them with platitudes, non-committal half-agreement, or canned talking points only makes things worse. In short, call people on their bullshit every time, and occasionally they can rise to the challenge and do or say something useful.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:43AM (1 child)
Which valley is that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:41PM
The uncanny one.