Friday, October 29, 2010

America’s Jobs Losses

America’s Jobs Losses are Permanent

The claim that jobs offshoring by US corporations increases domestic employment in the US is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated. As was demonstrated in a syndicated column and again in this book, How The Economy Was Lost (2010).

 Mr. Slaughter reached his erroneous conclusion by counting the growth in multinational jobs in the U.S. without adjusting the data to reflect the acquisition of existing firms by multinationals and for existing firms turning themselves into multinationals by establishing foreign operations for the first time.

There was no new multinational employment in the U.S. Existing employment simply moved into the multinational category from a change in the status of firms to multinational

If Mr. Slaughter (or Cohen) had consulted the Bureau of Labor Statistics nonfarm payroll jobs data, he would have been unable to locate the 5.5 million jobs that were allegedly created. It was reported for about a decade the details of new jobs creation in the U.S. as revealed by the BLS data, as has Washington economist Charles McMillion. Over the last decade, the net new jobs created in the U.S. have nothing to do with multinational corporations. The jobs consist of low paying, no benefits , temporary , waitresses and bartenders, health care and social services (largely ambulatory health care), retail clerks, and while the bubble lasted, construction.

These are not the high-tech, high-paying jobs that the “New Economy” promised, and they are not jobs that can be associated with global corporations. Moreover, these domestic service jobs are themselves scarce !

But facts have nothing to do with it. Did Mr Slaughter, Cohen, the Chamber, and the Wall Street Journal ever wonder how it was possible to have simultaneously millions of new good-paying middle class jobs and virtually the worst income inequality in the developed world with all income gains accruing to the mega-rich?

In mid-October Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs puppet Tim Geithner gave a speech in California in the backyard, or former backyard, of 60 Minutes’ Silicon Valley dispossessed upper middle class interviewees in which Geithner said that the solution is to “educate more engineers.”

We already have more engineers than we have jobs for them. In a recent poll a Philadelphia marketing and research firm, Twentysomething, found that 85% of recent college graduates planned to move back home with parents. Even if members of the “boomeranger generation” find jobs, the jobs don’t pay enough to support an independent existence.In 2002 in the city of Melbourne, Florida, the well known High tech JDSU Corp. used to employed many fiber optics communications Enginneers that were suddenly laid-off due to the company closing and opening up in Beijing, Communist China.


The financial media ( CNBC ) is useless. Reporters repeat the lie for the benefit of their republican viewers that the unemployment rate is 9.6%. This is a specially concocted unemployment rate that does not count most of the unemployed. The government’s own more inclusive rate stands at 17%. Statistician John Williams, who counts unemployment the way it is supposed to be counted, finds the unemployment rate to be 22%

The financial press turns bad news into good news. Recently a monthly gain of 64,000 new private sector jobs was hyped, jobs that were more than offset by the loss in government jobs. Moreover, it takes around 150,000 new jobs each month to keep pace with labor force growth. In other words, 100,000 new jobs each month would be a 50,000 jobs deficit.

The idiocy of the financial press is demonstrated by the following two headlines which appeared on October 19 : “Dollar Index Appreciates as Geithner Supports Currency Strength” , “Geithner Weak Dollar Seen as U.S. Recovery Route”

To keep eyes off of the loss of jobs to offshoring, policymakers and their minions in the financial press blame US unemployment on alleged currency manipulation by Communist China and on the financial crisis. The financial crisis itself is blamed by ignorant Republicans on low income Americans who took out mortgages that they could not afford.

In other words, the problem is Communist China and the greedy American poor who tried to live above their means. With this being the American mindset, you can see why nothing can be done to save the economy

No government will admit its mistakes, especially when it can blame foreigners. Communist China is being made the scapegoat for American failure. An entire industry has grown up that points its finger at Communist China and away from 20 years of corporate offshoring of US jobs and 9 years of expensive and pointless US wars to protect Israel,s interests.

“Currency manipulation” is the charge. However, the purpose of the Communist Chinese peg to the US dollar is not currency manipulation. When the Communist Chinese government decided to take its broken communist economy into a market economy, the government understood that it needed foreign confidence in its currency, while keeping the communist ideology and government control of free speech and other basic freedoms. It achieved that by pegging its currency to the dollar, signaling that Communist China’s money was as sound as the US dollar. At that time, Communist China, of course, could not credibly give its currency a higher dollar value.The US foreign policies double standards allow the Communist Chinese to get away with manipulating their currency.They are not less communist than North Korea or Cuba, yet the US ignores the lack of democracy and human rights in Communist China

As time has passed, the irresponsible and foolish policies of the US have eroded the dollar’s value, and as the Communist Chinese currency is pegged to the dollar, its value has moved down with the dollar. The Communist Chinese have not manipulated the peg in order to make their currency less valuable.Althoug it is possible coming from those communist pigs.


During 2006,while working undercover in Communist China, the exchange rate was a little more than 8 yuan to the dollar. Today it is 6.6 yuan to the dollar–a 17.5% revaluation of the yuan.

The US government blames the US trade deficit with Communist China on an undervalued Chinese currency. However, the Chinese currency has risen 17.5% against the dollar since 2006, but the US trade deficit with Communist China has not declined.

The major cause of the US trade deficit with Communist China is “globalism” or the practice, enforced by Wall Street and Wal-Mart, of US corporations offshoring their production for US markets to Communist China in order to improve the bottom line by lowering labor costs. Most of the tariffs that the congressional idiots want to put on “Chinese” imports would, therefore, fall on the offshored production of US corporations. When these American brand goods, such as Apple computers, are brought to US markets, they enter the US as imports. Thus, the tariffs will be applied to US corporate offshored output as well as to the exports of Chinese companies to the US.

The correct conclusion is that the US trade deficit with Communist China is the result of “globalism” or jobs offshoring, not Chinese currency manipulation.


An important point always overlooked is that the US is dependent on Communist China for many manufactured products including high technology products that are no longer produced in the US. Revaluation of the Chinese currency would raise the dollar price of these products in the US. The greater the revaluation, the greater the price rise. The impact on already declining US living standards would be dramatic.

When US policymakers argue that the solution to America’s problems is a stronger Chinese currency, they are yet again putting the burden of adjustment on the out-of-work, indebted, and foreclosed American population.
The United States lost six million jobs, indebted itself to Communist China by $ 1.4 Trillion, and received in return a host of consumer goods, many of which are toxic and very poor quality and now reside in landfills across the country.

1 comment:

  1. Paul Tudor Jones latest Letter to Investors -- covers this Chinese revaluation issue as well:

    http://cache.dealbreaker.com/uploads/2010/10/TudorInvestmentsLetterOctober2010.pdf

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