The desperate need for jobs

America since it's founding has never had any substantial amount of time during which it was not involved directly or indirectly in military conflict.

America is a nation of WAR and military conflict. That won't be chaning anytime soon.

check out this article on jobs, and also who is doing it..here: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2010/09/10/173511/gop-outsources-it/

Propaganda aside. If you want businesses to create jobs here, then you need to ENCOURAGE them to do so. Businesses WANT to create jobs, its how they grow and expand. You can't PUNISH a company to create jobs.

The propaganda has so confounded the actual reality of the situation as to make people completely clueless as to what is happening.

Businesses don't get 'tax breaks' to offshore operations. They just don't get taxed on stuff they do overseas. Just like I don't get taxed on my income by California because I live in Michigan. If a company builds a product overseas, employees people overseas, and sells the product overseas... guess what.. the US doesn't get to tax those items, or people. If that company that "imports" those products back to the US, then the government gets to tax them. That is the way it works.

The fact is businesses are moving overseas because the US is becoming a crappy place to do business.

So go ahead, pass some more punitive laws to punish businesses in the US. Let's see how long it takes for them to find better places to move as well.

http://www2.starexponent.com/news/2010/nov/29/not-so-fast-exxon-mobil-indeed-paid-plenty-taxes-l-ar-681876/

Yeah... $15 billion in taxes... is nothing huh..

Oh wait... only the left is supposed to use the argument that the "poor" pay plenty of taxes, just not income taxes.

Record profits and 20% unemployment. They don't need any "encouragement."

Here's something else, and I hope someone else can shed more light on it.

Last year I was looking at moving to Europe. It's not so easy unless you're being transferred as a result of your existing job.

I found that to simply emigrate, you run into a road block that we in the US don't seem to have.

Members of the European Union run their labor laws like this: For an employer to fill a position in, say, Britain, the employer must first attempt to hire a British national. If none can be found with the requisite job skills, the employer may THEN consider any citizen from another EU country. If the employer STILL cannot find a suitable candidate for the job, only THEN can they look elsewhere to fill the position.

I'm not sure what laws are in place to guard jobs here, but I know that in the IT world, many positions are offered first (and sometimes only) to foreign candidates.

Okay, all you Atlas Shrugged folks. I hear you chuckling. Us stupid Americans aren't as well trained in IT, and we ask for too much money. I'll buy that for programmers or database administrators, but I'm a freaking writer. You mean to tell me that "Robert" in Lahore is better suited for a technical writing gig than an American with twenty-five years experience?

Something is really wrong here. My answer was to pursue UK citizenship and see what the market is there...

Becks72.......Not to put words in your mouth but I believe it is Wall Street corrupting the politicians.

Maybe true. My point is that both political parties are receiving monies from Wall Street for their re-election campaigns and expecting support for laws (lobbying & lobbyists) favoring Wall Street dominance and ignoring job growth for Main Street or the middle class.......Corruption, the chicken and egg analogue most certainly applies...

yeah i say lets hang all the Republicans out to dry and see who blows away!!

Becks, I don't think there is a way to get the politicians to ignore the money (benefactors) after all that is how they pay for their campaigns, there is no such thing as an honest politician any more.

gmross.....I don't think there is a way to get the politicians to ignore the money (benefactors) after all that is how they pay for their campaigns

Agree....That is exactly my point in comments.... #8...and...#9.1

there is no such thing as an honest politician any more.

It's the lesser of two evils....

Becks, nope the average politician doesn't work for us he works for himself and he only cares about how much he can put in his own pockets.

I'm not so sure that we should blame the politicians for all this. If you ask the average American if they want their taxes cut they say,"Hell yes!"

We, the average Joe, have bought into the government and taxes are evil bull.. Where are the average Americans that are well informed enough to ask the next question, "Well what are we going to cut?"

We listen to all the waste in government and believe it. There is waste every where. 25% of the food produced in the US is thrown away. But who says lets stop producing so much food?

Ask the average Joe if wealth inequity in this country is a problem and they most likely won't know what you are talking about.

We need a better discourse in this country. We need a better informed citizens.

Pat, I have to agree with you in part. There are places we can cut but, the average politician isn't going to want to cut these things because it puts more money in their pockets and gets jobs into their states, defense spending can and should be cut, there is a lot of waste there. We can bring home more of our troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. We tax the rich and cut the loopholes that allow them to hide their money overseas and not get taxed on it. Listen Pat, I went on that website that lets you balance the budget, it took me two minutes to not only balance the budget but, to create a surplus, and I didn't have to gut Medicare to do it, or raise taxes on the middleclass or the poor.