Labor secretary says outsourcing anxiety belies facts

[Khephra]

NEW YORK - Anxiety over the overseas outsourcing of work by American businesses is refuted by the number of jobs that have actually been moved elsewhere and ignores the millions of jobs that foreign companies have created in the United States, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said Wednesday.

Chao added that she wasn't trying to sound "callous." Rather, "I'm trying to get out the facts," she said.

In the past year, employers have eliminated about 300,000 jobs in United States in favor of cheaper labor in other countries, Chao said.

Yet about 9 million Americans currently work for U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies, she said.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/9555409.htm

Kerry's comments follow her comments.

[wurzel]

1. Did those 9 million get all those jobs this year?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. Slitman Scarborough just said "facts are stupid things" to Frankin

"numbers aren't facts" too

MSNBC

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Yes but those foreign subsidiaries are companies such as car mfg'rs

SELLING their cars HERE...

The American companies outsourcing are NOT doing business in THOSE countries but HERE such as CALL centers and manufacturing.

[jpgray]

4. Chao can kiss my sack.

[PatriotGames]

5. On the Bright Side: 500 Wal-mart door greeter jobs opened this year.

[Robbien]

6. Those foreign companies were American owned companies

a couple of years ago.

How idiotic is that to use foreign owned as their basis of proof?

[MidwestTransplant]

7. People who worry about their jobs are Girlie Men.

[AmandaRuth]

8. they are girlie men who make hamburgers

at manufacturing plants.

[krkaufman]

9. I love to hear it

Can't wait to hear what Lou has to say about it.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. kick