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The Causes of Unemployment

Brencis Wrote: Jan 05, 2010 2:37 PM

In 1996/97 the USA was debating offering China favoured nation trading status and the WTO debating China's admission to the international body. At that time I said,

"If the world, and the USA in particular, offer economic acceptance to China without imposing political reforms to ensure a change in human rights, then within 50 years the way China treats it citizens will become an acceptable international norm."

Neither the WTO nor the USA made any such demands.

Since then we have seen Mugabe get a standing ovation at the Non-Alignment Movement's meeting in Durban.
We see no effort by African leaders to stop Al-bashir in Sudan.
Libya has chaired the UN human rights panel.
Thailand goes without even a paper...

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The Causes of Unemployment

Much has been written about our current high unemployment, but there is a strange reluctance by both liberal and conservative commentators to assess blame for the dramatic loss of well-paying American jobs. The causes are not only the general recession and the collapse of the housing market, but bad decisions by government and business that deserve finger-pointing.

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost millions of jobs due to outsourcing and insourcing. Those are euphemisms for exporting high-paying jobs to low-wage foreign countries, while importing an uneducated underclass willing to work for lower-than-U.S. wages without benefits.