More Jobs Lost As few Return

According to an on-line news article 'U.S. Loses 51K Jobs but Some Outsourced Jobs Are Coming Back' written by Alice Gomstyn of ABC News, "As the U.S. economic slump continues, American jobs are increasingly in short supply: the U.S. Labor Department reported on Friday that employers shrunk payrolls by 51,000."

Yet Gomstyn lets us know what employers like Monster Job on-line search Vice President O'Donnell are are saying about the returning jobs that were outsourced, "You've got to have a workforce that you can control and you can invest in and grow talent and skills over time, and that usually doesn't happen offshore,".

Gosh, and it took O'Donnell from when Bush first took office in 2001 until today, August 1 2008 to figure that one out. That is seven years of the Republican selling the lie that Americans are too stupid to do the jobs. Gee, what happened? Did Americans all of a sudden become intelligent again?

Remember, the whole concept of outsourcing was based on GW's early speeches about how "the American worker did not have the intelligence or skills or base knowledge for the high tech industry." GW Bush also stated during that same time period from 2001 through 2002 that "America will no longer be a High Tech country! America is now a service country!" Those words still rip through my heart, tearing it to shreds.

So according to Bush in his early speeches, the country of American workers who created the 'SILICON CHIP', and the country of American workers who created the 'PC', and the country of American workers who created the 'INTERNET', the country of American workers who built the 'SPACE ROCKET' for the Apollo missions and 'FIRST MOON MISSION', the country of American workers who launched the successful 'SATELLITES' into space, the country of American workers who designed and built the 'SPACE SHUTTLE' and had the successful space missions, the country of American workers who had the successful 'MARS MISSIONS', was just not smart enough to be the High Tech country anymore? Oh yeah and by the way, the country whose American workers created and built the first 'TELEPHONE', the first 'AIRPLANE', the first 'AIR CONDITIONER', the first, 'CABLE NEWS NETWORK' is just not smart enough?

But now, a new awakening is arriving. A very small portion of the jobs are returning. Just not the highly technical ones yet.

Alice also wrote in her ABC news report, "In March, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson told a Texas business group that the communications company was having trouble finding qualified applicants to fill 5,000 jobs -- mostly customer service positions -- that it had pledged to move back to the United States from India, according to a Reuters report."

Wow, did Randall Stephenson mean to say that when AT&T first took the jobs to India that all those new workers in India who took those jobs away from Americans had all the skills to work for a telephone company without having to be 'TRAINED?, or SCHOOLED in any way? Well if I remember those news articles in March concerning AT&T did admit to spending a lot of time and a lot of $$$$$$$ dollars in the millions or billions to train those Indian workers in India when they first outsourced those jobs back in the early Bush years.

Well maybe AT&T is just not willing to spend the same amount of time or money training the American worker that AT&T spent on the Indian Worker.

Also concerning the report written by Alice on AT&T, "An AT&T spokesman Thursday backpedaled from Stephenson's comments. Michael Coe told ABC News that AT&T had filled more than 2,500 positions and that the company is confident it will fill the rest."

Brain storm! Why not spend the same amount of time and money to train the American workers in the United States that you need just like you, AT&T, did on the Indian workers in India. DUH!

Alice of ABC news also got reaction from other companies who are either returning the jobs or bringing new jobs. ""It takes 70 Korean or Chinese workers 20 minutes to make a Chi flat iron," he said. "Now, in the United States and in Houston, with five people, I can make an iron in five minutes." Shami, who was first profiled by ABC News Houston affiliate KTRK, said he is building a new facility in Houston that he hopes will house 1,000 new workers within a year. He said he expects to neither save nor lose money through the new venture. A Palestinian immigrant, Shami said he's just doing his part to help the U.S. economy. "The only way to recover our economy is if we start manufacturing," he said. "I'm doing my part as a good citizen, that's all.""

Gosh, did Farouk Shami just give the workers of the United States of America a compliment?

You mean to say that the top 'CEO's' who were complaining in 2001 and 2002 that the American workers were just lazy and that the companies had to find more reliable workers was all a lie? Hmmm, What are the chances of that happening?