本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛PART 8 --- OUTSOURCING JOBS FOR PROFIT
Steelworker:
U.S. Steel is getting out of the steel business, and they're getting out of this community.
They're saying,"Goodbye, we've had enough, there's no more left, we've squeezed the grape, we're going on to greener pastures."
President,United Steelworkers :Leo Gerard:
We've seen the acceleration of the hollowing out of America as the most important and powerful industrial society on earth.
Narrator:
Since 1973 approximately 40 million good-paying American jobs with benefits have been shipped overseas or dismantled by corporations, boosting their own profits at working Americans' expense.
Thanks to decades of policy shaped by corporate money, there was nothing to stop them.
Faux:
There is this notion that this was only a Republican villainy, in fact, much of what happened during the 8 years of Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton (1993):
We seek a new and more open global trading system not for its own sake but for our own sake.
Vice-Chairman, Federal Reserve, Clinton Admin. Alan Blinder
I supported NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) then, I supported NAFTA now,for the same reasons. The main one is I, like most economists, generically favour trade
liberalization because trade leads to gains on both sides.
As Jorge Castaneda who was later Finance Minister of Mexico once said, he said, NAFTA was an arrangement between the rich and powerful of all three countries leaving ordinary people out.
Exec. Director, Center for Community Change Deepak Bhargava:
What that really means, in simple language,is that corporations are able to move anywhere in the world they want to seek cheap labor and exploit people, and use that as leverage against workers here in the United States of America.
1992 Presidential Candidate Ross Rerot:
Now, if you just want to get down to brass tacks, if your are paying 12,13,14$ an hour for factory workers, and your can move your factory south of the border, pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have no healthcare that is the most expensive single element in making a car, have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south .
Faux:
If you look at the statistics since NAFTA, in all three countries, wages of workers have been stagnant; the productivity of workers has skyrocketed; and workers in all three countries have gone into debt in order to maintain their living standards.
Senator Bernie Sanders
We also saw a massive movement toward unfettered free trade.
And the theory of that was that if you create trade agreements with China, where people are paid 40,50 cents an hour, and you shut down plants in America, and you move to China or you move to Mexico, that, in some way that we haven't quite figured out yet, this is gonna be good for the American worker.
For 20 years ,the American public believed we could simultaneously outsource all of our jobs and simultaneously maintain our quality of life at home.
We thought we could do that . Guess what, no such thing.
We are eviscerating our manufacturing capability, all in the name of lower prices, all in the name of free trade, all in the name of the market always knows best.
The market does't know best.
Computer Programmer Kim Berry:
Through the 1980s, I was living the American dream, and that was really the high point of my career, and that was really the high point of my career. I didn't know it at the time .
But I was earning $50 an hour as a consultant in '97 at HP. When I left HP to do a dot com venture and HP at the time said, that's great, if it doesn't work out, you always heave a job here, and, in fact, whatever you learn in dot com, that'll be valuable to your long-term career at HP.
What happened while I was out doing the dot com, HP started bringing in workers from India because they would work for a lot cheaper.
And also they brought them in to train them, to get some foreigners trained, so that they could then ship them back to the research and development labs back in India and China .
Blinder:
Off-shoring of employment has been with us for a very long time but has mostly been restricted to manufacturing.
The now wrinkle is off-shoring of services.
The number and range and variety of jobs that could in principle be done abroad, say over the internet, it's enormous.
CEO,Sterling-Winthrop (1989-1994) Lou Mattis
If you look at it in terms of pure business ,they're the right decisions.
You go to the lowest labor cost., in term of patriotism, they're not.
Blinder:
It will be painful and for a number of reasons. One of them: it is going to be large,maybe over the cost of the next generation, 30,40 million jobs.
It's important to note this is not either about only low skilled jobs or only high skilled jobs; they're all over!
If what you do is write computer code, routine computer code, you might as well be anywhere in the world.
You lose nothing in quality if you move the job from Indianan to India.
Paul Craig Roberts, a co-founder of Reaganomics, feels that big business has gone too far.
He said: All these ladders are being dismantled. Where are the jobs for university graduates?
They are now beginning to face the same dilemmas that blue collar workers faced when they lost their $20 an hour manufacturing jobs with their good benefits. and so we have
an economy that is starting to impoverish its workforce.
And what the corporations are doing: they tell Congress, "oh, there's a shortage of engineers.There is a shortage of scientists. We can't find any." This is all an total lie.
Narrator:
Many corporations will go to any lengths, including these legal but deceptive practices, to hire cheaper foreign labor.
Present head of GE said that when he looks at the future of his company, he sees China and China and China.
So these guys will go where the cheapest labours.
There is no allegiance to the United States of America.
Since 2002, GE has reduced its American workforce by tens of thousands of people.
In 2008, the global conglomerate received a $140 billion bailout from American taxpayers.
GE also spends more money lobbying Congress than any other corporation in the world.
In 2011, President Obama appointed GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to run his Presidential Council on jobs and Competitiveness.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Steelworker:
U.S. Steel is getting out of the steel business, and they're getting out of this community.
They're saying,"Goodbye, we've had enough, there's no more left, we've squeezed the grape, we're going on to greener pastures."
President,United Steelworkers :Leo Gerard:
We've seen the acceleration of the hollowing out of America as the most important and powerful industrial society on earth.
Narrator:
Since 1973 approximately 40 million good-paying American jobs with benefits have been shipped overseas or dismantled by corporations, boosting their own profits at working Americans' expense.
Thanks to decades of policy shaped by corporate money, there was nothing to stop them.
Faux:
There is this notion that this was only a Republican villainy, in fact, much of what happened during the 8 years of Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton (1993):
We seek a new and more open global trading system not for its own sake but for our own sake.
Vice-Chairman, Federal Reserve, Clinton Admin. Alan Blinder
I supported NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) then, I supported NAFTA now,for the same reasons. The main one is I, like most economists, generically favour trade
liberalization because trade leads to gains on both sides.
As Jorge Castaneda who was later Finance Minister of Mexico once said, he said, NAFTA was an arrangement between the rich and powerful of all three countries leaving ordinary people out.
Exec. Director, Center for Community Change Deepak Bhargava:
What that really means, in simple language,is that corporations are able to move anywhere in the world they want to seek cheap labor and exploit people, and use that as leverage against workers here in the United States of America.
1992 Presidential Candidate Ross Rerot:
Now, if you just want to get down to brass tacks, if your are paying 12,13,14$ an hour for factory workers, and your can move your factory south of the border, pay a dollar an hour for your labor, have no healthcare that is the most expensive single element in making a car, have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south .
Faux:
If you look at the statistics since NAFTA, in all three countries, wages of workers have been stagnant; the productivity of workers has skyrocketed; and workers in all three countries have gone into debt in order to maintain their living standards.
Senator Bernie Sanders
We also saw a massive movement toward unfettered free trade.
And the theory of that was that if you create trade agreements with China, where people are paid 40,50 cents an hour, and you shut down plants in America, and you move to China or you move to Mexico, that, in some way that we haven't quite figured out yet, this is gonna be good for the American worker.
For 20 years ,the American public believed we could simultaneously outsource all of our jobs and simultaneously maintain our quality of life at home.
We thought we could do that . Guess what, no such thing.
We are eviscerating our manufacturing capability, all in the name of lower prices, all in the name of free trade, all in the name of the market always knows best.
The market does't know best.
Computer Programmer Kim Berry:
Through the 1980s, I was living the American dream, and that was really the high point of my career, and that was really the high point of my career. I didn't know it at the time .
But I was earning $50 an hour as a consultant in '97 at HP. When I left HP to do a dot com venture and HP at the time said, that's great, if it doesn't work out, you always heave a job here, and, in fact, whatever you learn in dot com, that'll be valuable to your long-term career at HP.
What happened while I was out doing the dot com, HP started bringing in workers from India because they would work for a lot cheaper.
And also they brought them in to train them, to get some foreigners trained, so that they could then ship them back to the research and development labs back in India and China .
Blinder:
Off-shoring of employment has been with us for a very long time but has mostly been restricted to manufacturing.
The now wrinkle is off-shoring of services.
The number and range and variety of jobs that could in principle be done abroad, say over the internet, it's enormous.
CEO,Sterling-Winthrop (1989-1994) Lou Mattis
If you look at it in terms of pure business ,they're the right decisions.
You go to the lowest labor cost., in term of patriotism, they're not.
Blinder:
It will be painful and for a number of reasons. One of them: it is going to be large,maybe over the cost of the next generation, 30,40 million jobs.
It's important to note this is not either about only low skilled jobs or only high skilled jobs; they're all over!
If what you do is write computer code, routine computer code, you might as well be anywhere in the world.
You lose nothing in quality if you move the job from Indianan to India.
Paul Craig Roberts, a co-founder of Reaganomics, feels that big business has gone too far.
He said: All these ladders are being dismantled. Where are the jobs for university graduates?
They are now beginning to face the same dilemmas that blue collar workers faced when they lost their $20 an hour manufacturing jobs with their good benefits. and so we have
an economy that is starting to impoverish its workforce.
And what the corporations are doing: they tell Congress, "oh, there's a shortage of engineers.There is a shortage of scientists. We can't find any." This is all an total lie.
Narrator:
Many corporations will go to any lengths, including these legal but deceptive practices, to hire cheaper foreign labor.
Present head of GE said that when he looks at the future of his company, he sees China and China and China.
So these guys will go where the cheapest labours.
There is no allegiance to the United States of America.
Since 2002, GE has reduced its American workforce by tens of thousands of people.
In 2008, the global conglomerate received a $140 billion bailout from American taxpayers.
GE also spends more money lobbying Congress than any other corporation in the world.
In 2011, President Obama appointed GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, to run his Presidential Council on jobs and Competitiveness.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net