Outsourcing Lies from the Commerce Dept.

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The Commerce Dept. recently released a report regarding offshore outsourcing that was apparently modified from it's original version, due to it being highly critical of outsourcing.

http://www.manufacturingnews.com/news/05/1012/art1.html

This article refers to a government-sponsored report on offshore outsourcing which was compiled by a number of researchers. The original report apparently showed outsourcing was damaging our economy. Because of this, it wasn't released until over a year after it was supposed to be released.

Furthermore, when the Bush junta was finally forced to release it as per the Freedom of Information Act, it had been falsely rewritten by that part of the Bush Propaganda Machine known as the Commerce Dept.

Researchers involved with writing the initial report state this is not the version of the report that they had submitted. Basically, the current report reduced or eliminated all negative findings regarding outsourcing.

The initial results were supposed to have been published before the November election. However, due to the negative impact the original report would have had, it was not published at that time. The new falsified version was finally issued on September 8, 2005.

Though there are no copies available of the original, "pre-falsified" version, it appears it was very critical of outsourcing. It seems the most damning information was changed or removed.

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EconomicPopulistCommentary
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[texpatriot2004]

1. No copies of the report without the gov's modifications. n.t

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. A return to reason.

When the Dems come back, science and respect for research will return as well. We'll remember the Bush years as the Dark Ages of American history.

[Angry Girl]

3. Another article, along with other examples of WH info doctoring

Bush Political Hacks Buried & Doctored Key Outsourcing Report Before the 2004 Election

Here are the details: The industry trade publication notes that Congress slated $335,000 for a report from the technical experts at the Commerce Department's Technology Administration. The timetable was well before election day as "the report was requested by Congress in an appropriations bill in December 2003, with a six-month deadline of June 2004." And to be sure, the report "was completed well before the November 2004 presidential election." However, it "was delayed for clearance by the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress due to the controversial nature of the subject." In fact, it might never have come out at all as it was only released now "as the result of a Freedom of Information Act request that had filed on March 17, 2005."

Worse, after the election, an undoctored draft of the report by the government's technical experts "went into a vetting process among political appointees at the Commerce Department and White House" and the original report "never resurfaced." Instead, what did finally resurface was a "12-page version" that "focuses on the allegedly positive impacts for the U.S. economy of the offshore outsourcing." Instead of original data, the report "quotes research conducted by organizations and individuals that have been funded by corporations that benefit from shifting jobs overseas." And of course, "no mention is made of the conflict of interest inherent in the studies cited by the Commerce report."

Let's remember - this is only the latest example of political hacks doctoring and burying reports. Right after 9/11, for instance, the White House doctored EPA reports about air quality in New York City.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/09/national/main567489.shtml

Earlier this year, the White House doctored reports about the causes of global warming.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0610-06.htm

And, as Think Progress shows, there are plenty of other examples.
http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=1127

What's particularly disturbing about these new revelations is that the report was not only doctored, but buried before the election, despite Congress specifically mandating the report be released before then. In other words, the White House didn't just take liberties - it deliberately violated the will of Congress in order to suppress and doctor government data for its own political purposes. That's way over the line, even for these guys.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/1014-22.htm

[unlawflcombatnt]

5. Bush junta wrong on some many accounts

This report is wrong for many reasons. Even the falsified version was suppressed until after the election. The so-called "benefits" of outsourcing are starting to be exposed for the pure fantasy they are.

unlawflcombatnt
EconomicPopulistCommentary
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The economy needs balance between the "means of production" & "means of consumption."

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4. the acm does not have its own internal paper available to acm members!

members pay to support the organization and yet a paper that talks about its member's future is not available!

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6. ACM?

Could you tell me what "ACM" means?

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EconomicPopulistCommentary
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The economy needs balance between the "means of production" & "means of consumption."

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7. association for computing machinery

geek association not business association