Post by kramer on Mar 4, 2010 22:30:44 GMT -6
From the WashingtonPost:
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
By Alec MacGillis
Wednesday, March 3, 2010; A15
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization's winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia.
Soon, however, Americans may be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shutter the unit that produces them.
President Obama's budget would eliminate the International Labor Comparisons office and transfer its 16 economists to expand the bureau's work tracking inflation and occupational trends. The White House says the cut, estimated to save $2 million, is one of many difficult decisions the president was forced to make to control spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030201568_pf.html
Here's my take on this move... It's being closed because the number of jobs transferred out of America must be staggering.
And how about the part where the Obama admin says the closing will save $2 million. Well, how's that going to save $2 million when they aren't laying off those 16 economists? And the massive spending by the government dwarfs this $2 million dollar savings.
What a fucking lie.
These SOBs are purposely going to get rid of this office because it gives outsourcing data which must look really bad. And then lie about the reason why. How stupid do they think we are. More importantly, they are incredibly stupid if they can't see how stupid this reasoning is.
Sorry for the f-bomb... Things like this bug me.
Kramer
Obama administration plans to close International Labor Comparisons office
By Alec MacGillis
Wednesday, March 3, 2010; A15
Like a scorekeeper for the world, a tiny unit within the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks globalization's winners and losers, and the results are not always pretty for the United States. Manufacturing jobs here, for example, have fallen faster since 1979 than in Canada, Germany or Japan. Compensation for those jobs dropped here in 2008 but jumped in South Korea and Australia.
Soon, however, Americans may be spared the demoralization in these numbers: The White House wants to shutter the unit that produces them.
President Obama's budget would eliminate the International Labor Comparisons office and transfer its 16 economists to expand the bureau's work tracking inflation and occupational trends. The White House says the cut, estimated to save $2 million, is one of many difficult decisions the president was forced to make to control spending.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/02/AR2010030201568_pf.html
Here's my take on this move... It's being closed because the number of jobs transferred out of America must be staggering.
And how about the part where the Obama admin says the closing will save $2 million. Well, how's that going to save $2 million when they aren't laying off those 16 economists? And the massive spending by the government dwarfs this $2 million dollar savings.
What a fucking lie.
These SOBs are purposely going to get rid of this office because it gives outsourcing data which must look really bad. And then lie about the reason why. How stupid do they think we are. More importantly, they are incredibly stupid if they can't see how stupid this reasoning is.
Sorry for the f-bomb... Things like this bug me.
Kramer