11.08.10

Policy for Failed Society with Huge Numbers of Sitting Around People

Posted in Stumble and Fail at 3:10 pm by George Smith

DD has left the Obama train, no surprise.

It’s impossible to support someone who can say with a straight face, on a trip to India, that it will be good for the middle class, generating a big 54,000 jobs.

“President Barack Obama on Saturday embraced India as the next jobs-creating giant for hurting Americans, not a cheap-labor rival that outsources opportunity from the United States,” reported the AP last Friday, its reporter seemingly not even willing to believe the bullshit being peddled this time out.

In the face of fifteen million unemployed and even more underemployed.
While the entire middle class regards India as a place of no value to them, a place of really cheap labor which giant US corporations uses for the efficient dismissal of even more Americans. (Before that, India was a place US megacorporations could treat murderously.)

The beneficiaries of trade with India are the usual culprits. Military contractors like Honeywell , Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

“Chicago-based Boeing expects to bid for $31 billion of military contracts in the next 10 years as it competes with suppliers including Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed Martin Corp. following a tripling of India’s defense budget,” reported a San Francisco newspaper.

Include a company that can outsource its English data entry to Mumbai, McGraw-Hill.

And credit card collection services.

And, last but not least, Wal-Mart — which can open stores there, employing locals, after the firm has spent a couple decades helping to destroy US middle class make-stuff jobs by bringing Chinese slave labor goods here. You see, it’s consumer business is off in the US due to the economic crash. It can build it back up by using an emerging market to keep doing the same bad things it always has.

The only people who believe India has anything to offer the US middle class are the Tom Friedmans of the world, the fellow fond of telling the tall tale about how a creative, innovative American recaptured his career after having his job sent to India. By making and selling a T-shirt about it.

Great joke. Get’s a big laugh every time.

Why, just recently, here’s Friedman acting as the India-America Chamber of Commerce:

If America turns away from [the] values, [a leader of the National Association of Software and Services in India, an agency that promotes US outsourcing], the socialist/protectionists among India’s bureaucrats will use it to slow down any further opening of the Indian markets to U.S. exporters.

Middle class Americans might not lose jobs to India quite as swiftly! And that would really eat it.

There is no way rebalance the situation. India exacerbates economic decay within the US labor force because of the way the American system is set up. Saving or creating more jobs within the already very healthy national security industry is not a benefit.

Up next, pitches for losing trade to Panama and Colombia for the sake of the same handful of military contractors and, perhaps, American coffee companies with a pathological aversion to even a minimum of US labor.

Big ups for those!

And for this story from Yahoo’s business section, a place caught on the horns of cheerleading for US job loss now that the middle class is enraged with the American plutonomy, you can read of all the “iconic” American goods no longer made here, but in slave labor countries, because of corporate aversion to compensating US workers fairly.

It’s here.

However, if you’re still one of those who have a job, you can peddle a plastic robot — made in a slave labor country — for the guarding of your pile. Allegedly.

Reports the New York Times, from the cutting edge of the ‘artisan economy’ for the making of stuff for rich gadget freak people:

When Robert Oschler, a programmer, leaves his home, he knows it is secure. And if he ever has cause for concern, he can open his laptop and survey the house through the eyes of his watchdogs.

“I don’t have any pets. I just have pet robots, and they’re pretty well behaved.”

Naturally, the Times tech reporter promoting the stuff wanted one, too.

“To me, we’ve reached a banana republic point where our inequality has become both economically unhealthy and morally repugnant,” wrote Nicholas Kristof whose conscience has been bugging him ever since he fucked with the anthrax investigation.

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