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American Jobs Act--Facts


Posted: Sep 12, 2011

There are some here who need to provide some facts instead of rhetoric. Here is the source "straight from the horses mouth." This is to be presented to Congress today. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/08/fact-sheet-american-jobs-act Many of the proposals will favor the retention of jobs in the United States rather than the offshore outsourcing. As I am sure everyone remembers, Democrats tried to propose anti-offshore legislation between June 2010 through September 2010, when the Republicans blocked the bills to promote their political motives of trying to make Obama look bad and what was good for their corporate sponsors, rather than what was good for the American worker. We shall see how far President Obama's proposals go with the Republican-controlled Congress this time. After the August recess, apparently some of the Republicans are now giving lip service that they are willing to work together. Why don't I believe any of them? I guess because they have not proposed anything, and have blocked everything that would be of any help. Contact your legislators and let them know how you feel on Americans working! ;

Outsourcing - SadMT

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My job went overseas last year in medical transcription. When I first lost my job, I contacted everyone I could think of about this. The emails and letters I got back were form letters. I would say not to waste your time of contacting anyone because NO ONE cares about the Americans anymore. They just want to pay less money for everything including transcription. Just my opinion from experience of contacting senators, congressman, and even President Obama. They DON'T care! Believe me .... been there, done that .... should have got the T-shirt! LOL! :)

Yes, I got a form letter back from my Republican rep - and he didn't even show up

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for the joint session of Congress last Thursday night. However, I am going to keep writiing to him and to our local newspapers so he feels the pressure of what his constituents want, and to let people know about his awful behavior. The more American jobs available, the better for everyone, right? I don't think I can wait another 14+ months for the next election and legislature turnover.

In our area, the representatives really got an earful - sm

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Lately, our guy has "telephone robo-call town meetings" because he is afraid to meet face-to-face with the voters. In August, there were local TV stories about how you have to pay to get into see some of the Republican reps to talk to them. Now, after the recess, they are pretending to be willing to work with the Democrats. I don't think a leopard changes his spots that suddenly. I agree, you have to keep the pressure on them to get them to do anything.

I was stupid too - offshored

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I wanted to find a job where I could work from home so bad, I took an MT program even though I had heard the warnings about offshoring. This has been talked about since the early 2000's. See the wiki article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_outsourcing

We cannot change history, but we can try to improve retraining and hiring conditions for everyone.

Do you know if the actual bill is posted anywhere yet? - Zville MT

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I know he hasn't sent it to congress just yet, but is the entire thing up on the net anywhere? I'd rather read the actual bill than talking points from the WH.

I'll post it if I find it anywhere ;)

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