"Give me back my job, foreigner!"

[midnight armadillo]

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V124/N13/nesmith13.13c.html

“Give Me Back My Job, Foreigner”
Ken Nesmith

Corporations who hire workers in foreign countries have come under sharp attack recently. John Kerry calls the managers of such companies “Benedict Arnold CEOs,” and Congress is ready to enact legislation limiting their ability to produce goods and services outside of America. Most objections amount to complaints that it’s not good to be unemployed. (For the record, I agree.) Nonetheless, it’s pretty well decided in all forums, save a few corners of leftist Web sites and protest sessions, that trade is good. What’s striking to me is that although commentators versed in economics have restated ad infinitum the ways in which trade is good, and liberal writers have retold a thousand sad stories about job loss (paying less attention to the jobs others gain), no attention has been paid to the racism involved in this conversation. It’s remarkable just how strong and tolerated that racism has become.

An MIT student shows why the premier technical university is perhaps lacking in its ability to train its students in sound thinking and logic... There is an element of racism to some of the outsourcing concerns (the "foreign brown hordes" if you will, etc), but to claim that's the only reason why people are pissed after seeing solid white collar jobs head overseas is pretty foolish.

[papau]

1. MIT once taught logic and had students that could see the forest

and not just a few trees.

The stupid - or blind - reasoning that converts a worker versus control of capital/role of government discussion into a they are not letting wrong skin color folks get jobs discussion I thought had died with the GOP anti union crowd that used it in the 30's.

But this person gets print space today as the modern Bush/Delay GOP try to bring America back to the rules and roles pre-FDR.

Granted that many in the union movement in the 30's and 40's were racist and used racist ideas - and that it took strong leadership to kill that virus - I really expected a MIT student to see beyond a few trees and to be able to see the forest and see the discussion as one about the role of capital, the role of government, and the lifestyle of the non-rich around the world. The idea of a world wide minimum wage/work safety rule/environmental effect rule trade agreement is a great deal more important to the non-rich than some silly idea that all American's are white, the world's poor are not non-white, and racism guides trade and job outsourcing positions.

Interesting, and sad, to see that the modern day GOP are able to sell their easy to say, reduced to solgan, ideas on the MIT campus.

[schultzee]

Many White Collar Middle class worker are seeing the future of poverty

becaue of the policies of the Greed pigs, including the traitor Clinton who pushed NAFTA through. Stop listeneing to the the young Turks on Sirius, because they support NAFTA, WTO, and the outsourcing of American jobs. They say they are ex republicans, but that is a lie, they are still republican pigs who don't give a damn if you starve to death.

[schultzee]

2. Many White Collar Middle class worker are seeing the future of poverty

becaue of the policies of the Greed pigs, including the traitor Clinton who pushed NAFTA through. Stop listeneing to the the young Turks on Sirius, because they support NAFTA, WTO, and the outsourcing of American jobs. They say they are ex republicans, but that is a lie, they are still republican pigs who don't give a damn if you starve to death.

[thingfish]

3. Quit complaining! The blade is very sharp, and you'll barely feel it...

...as we slip it between your ribs, or glide it across your throat.

The fucking GALL of the investor class in this country.