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posted by on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the pants-on-fire dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:26PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @11:26PM (#500415) Journal

    I'd still rather deal with an unreconstructed Marxist than, say, a Dominionist. They're wrong, and I know why they're wrong, but they're less wrong and less self-contradictory than, for example, Rushdoony was. Which is to say, both are equally nutty in economic terms but the Marxist is usually going to be a decent person aside from that.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:30AM (2 children)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday April 27 2017, @12:30AM (#500437) Journal

    Sure. I grant you that at least they try hard. Know-nothings and their heirs don't try at all. It's a pity they don't, because theirs could be a useful input into the public discourse if they tried to back it up with thought.

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:46AM (#500503) Journal

      No it couldn't, because, as you just said, they are know-nothings. I am speaking here of the kind of habitual urinator-in-the-meme-pool that thinks aid to Israel should be the US's number one priority specifically because Armageddon will, in his lifetime, begin there. Not only do they know nothing, they can't know anything, because they won't know anything.

      That kind of mind has been so completely poisoned over so many years that only the kind of existential shock that can only be truly put into words in literary Russian is going to change them.

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:51AM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:51AM (#500608) Journal

        that only the kind of existential shock that can only be truly put into words in literary Russian is going to change them.

        That's an excellent characterization. I'm going to steal this.

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