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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 Lagg on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:09AM (6 children)
Welp that came out looking like I took issue with your post being modded insightful. Sorry, meant because of:
Flamebait=1, Insightful=1, Interesting=1, Informative=1, Touché=1
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:49AM (5 children)
And as I've said before, no, the two sides are *not* identical, functionally or otherwise. They are equally wrong about economic theory, and both ironically for the precise same reason: they do not take human nature into account. The unreconstructed Marxist is likely to be more or less a decent person in other facets of his or her life, though, while the Theonomist is going to be more or less the Baptist version of Achmed the Dead Terrorist but suffering from type II diabetes and the effects of three generations of incest.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Thursday April 27 2017, @05:21AM (4 children)
Can we just assume now that you are on the left? Conflict of interest... tinted glass... ingroups and outgroups...
You are obviously wrong, btw. There is no metric of who is 'decent' and who is 'deplorable', there is no research which quantifies that into a single number, and there is no way any method to device such a metric is not going to be biased.
Carry on...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:15PM (2 children)
Fuck you and die. There is one very obvious metric and that is "is this person trying to literally bring about Armageddon with his or her policies?" Leftists, as nuts as some of them may be, aren't.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @10:45PM (1 child)
The false equivalence is staggering. Both groups suffer from emotionally based ideologies and have similar reactions when criticized, but as you pointed out they are very different. Loony rights usually base their ideology from fear and anger, loony lefts are usually base their ideologies on compassion and hope. Anger creeps in from all the loony rights trying to destroy the people they don't like.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday April 28 2017, @01:16AM
Well...as it is said, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but surely the direct borehole to it is drilled with those of evil. Would heaven i could give everyone the insight to stop and ask themselves, "am I putting ideology above people?" Kantian thinking can be a dangerous thing...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 27 2017, @09:25PM
I didn't believe it was possible to be both smug and butthurt at the same time.
But you just proved me wrong.