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 Azuma Hazuki on Thursday April 27 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday April 27 2017, @11:51AM
That's an excellent characterization. I'm going to steal this.
Washington DC delenda est.