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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Despite the fact that Obama's own policies have wiped out countless jobs and
resulted in other jobs moving to foreign countries, the Obama campaign
today accused Mitt Romney of being the "Outsourcer-in-Chief." That was
deeply ironic, because the Obama Administration has spent billions of tax
dollars subsidizing the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries.
Obama, not Romney, is the Outsourcer-in-Chief.
“79 percent” of all green-jobs spending in Obama’s $800 billion stimulus
package went to foreign companies, with the largest payment going to a
bankrupt Australian company. For example, the Obama Administration spent $1.
6 billion on Chinese and other foreign wind power. The practical effect of
those subsidies was to outsource American jobs. ABC News reported on the
subsidies for Chinese wind turbines contained in the stimulus package:
Despite all the talk of green jobs, the overwhelming majority of
stimulus money spent on wind power has gone to foreign companies, according
to a new report by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at the American
University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C.
Nearly $2 billion . . . has been spent on wind power. . .But the study
found that nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers
of wind turbines.
“Most of the jobs are going overseas,” said Russ Choma at the
Investigative Reporting Workshop. He analyzed which foreign firms had
accepted the most stimulus money. “According to our estimates, about 6,000
jobs have been created overseas, and maybe a couple hundred have been
created in the U.S.” Even with the infusion of so much stimulus money, a
recent report by American Wind Energy Association showed a drop in U.S. wind
manufacturing jobs last year.
The stimulus package showered money on left-wing community organizers and
liberal lobbying groups.
NewsMax reported on a $2 billion subsidized loan by the U.S. government to a
Brazilian oil company:
Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski says President Barack Obama’s weekend
comments in Brazil that the United States looks forward to purchasing oil
drilled for offshore by that nation “is rather puzzling,” and “
hypocritical” as his administration has imposed a virtual moratorium on
domestic drilling. The signal to purchase more foreign oil comes after the U
.S. Export-Import Bank invested more than $2 billion with Brazil’s state-
owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration.
The CEO of General Electric, which received government “green jobs” money,
is a close Obama adviser. GE has been busy outsourcing American jobs,
eliminating a fifth of its U.S. workforce since 2002. GE made $14.2 billion
in profits in 2010, but paid no taxes at all, even though America’s
corporate tax rates are among the highest in the world. Indeed, GE actually
received a tax benefit of $3.2 billion from the government in 2010, and
received a preferential bailout at taxpayer expense.
In addition to paying for foreign “green” jobs that replaced American jobs
, Obama’s stimulus package also contained poorly-designed provisions that
ignited trade wars, wiping out jobs in America’s export sector and
aggravating the U.S. trade deficit. The Dodd-Frank financial law passed in
2010 is also expected to shift thousands of jobs from America to foreign
countries.
The Obama Administration has also given companies an incentive to move
overseas by interfering with employers’ merit-based hiring, and by imposing
a wide array of costly, harmful new labor and employment regulations on
American manufacturers. Democratic businessman Steve Wynn called Obama “the
greatest wet blanket to business and progress and job creation in my
lifetime,” saying that “the business community in this country is
frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of
the United States. And until he’s gone, everybody’s going to be sitting on
their thumbs.”
The Obama administration is reinterpreting federal labor, employment,
disabilities-rights, and discrimination laws in ways that impose costly
burdens on businesses and consumers. The Obama EEOC recently sued Pepsi for
doing criminal background checks on job applicants, forcing it to pay $3.1
million to settle the lawsuit. The EEOC is also threatening employers who
require high-school diplomas with lawsuits under the ADA.
Employers’ ability to hire and fire based on merit is under assault by
Obama appointees at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), an
agency that has recently ordered employers to discard useful employment
tests and retain incompetent employees. For example, a hotel chain was
recently compelled to pay $132,500 for dismissing an autistic desk clerk who
did not do his job properly, in order for it avoid a lawsuit by the EEOC
that would have cost it much more than that to defend. The EEOC has sued
companies that sensibly refuse to employ truck drivers with a history of
heavy drinking, even though companies that hire them will be sued under
state personal-injury laws when they have an accident. It has previously
sued other employers who take serious criminal records into account, or use
criminal background checks, even though employers who hire criminals end up
getting sued when those employees commit crimes. The EEOC’s demands thus
place employers in an impossible dilemma where they can be sued no matter
what they do. The EEOC’s aggressive anti-business stance reflects its new
left-wing majority under the Obama administration, which has appointed anti-
business extremists to the EEOC.
Obamacare’s burdens on employers will likely eliminate at least 800,000
jobs. Obamacare has caused layoffs in the medical device industry, and wiped
out jobs in other industries. |
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