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From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 February 2004 17:42
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The White House agreeing with the sending of
jobs overseas


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Shawn corrects:

> You really need to follow all that news a little more closely, one of
> the  economists in the administration made the comment and Bush
> disavowed it,  but the economist is mostly misunderstood on what he
> was trying to  say.  There are some compelling argument for free trade
> and its ability to  improve the lives on both sides of it ...


 Wirt says : -
                Let me correct Shawn's correction a bit. Bush hasn't
disavowed the comments.

Well, maybe not, but he didn't pile in with the support. This from Brad
DeLong ( the bit in the bracket is key) : -


Support for Greg Mankiw Arrives...
The Wall Street Journal's Bob Davis spends the day on the phone, rounding up
Democratic economists willing to say that Greg Mankiw is correct when he
says that "outsourcing" is, for America as a whole, more of an opportunity
than a threat.
Who does he succeed in rounding up? Former CEA Chair Janet Yellen... former
CEA Chair and NEC Head Laura D'Andrea Tyson... former Labor Secretary Bob
Reich (I think Reich hits the exact right note when he criticizes the Bush
administration for failing to make "a serious attempt to deal with the
profound structural problems of an economy in transition as it affects
middle-class jobs"; working-class jobs too; it is certainly true that the
Bush administration is much more concerned with the problems of CEOs
suffering under SEC overreach than it is with the problems of regular people
who have lost their jobs)...





 Wirt's right. Competent software professionals should thrive in any
environment - we've been around the block, seen how businesses succeed and
fail. It's not just programming that we do. But people without transferable
skills, people trapped by commitments and unable to relocate, people
desperately needing a job that carries a medical plan that will look after a
chronically sick child, they need retraining and employers need subsidies to
bring jobs to them.
 In the short term at least.

 Unfortunately there are campaign contributors to look after first.



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