crossposted from unbossed

A new study by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and CareerBuilder.com provides new data on motives for sending US jobs abroad (and abroad can mean Canada) as well as which jobs are a likely target.

Two cows were standing in a field and talking:

"Say, old chap, this Mad Cow disease has me in a bit of a tizzy."
"Not me," replied the second, "I’m a duck."


I like irony. I don’t know exactly what it is, but I know it when it hits me. I can’t say I know it when I see it because I suspect there is good deal of irony that gets lost on me – which is ironic, for someone who likes irony.

The World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland http://www.worldeconomicforum.org/ asks us ...

"What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008 ?"

Hillary Clinton supports laws, regulations and trade agreements which subordinate the broad general good of all Americans and the long term interests of the United States to the whims of corporations controlled by monied elites. Hillary Clinton believes in the same radical corporate-managed trade and labor policies supported by the Bush Administration. These radical pro-corporate policies, established in law and government regulation, enable corporations to destroy good paying jobs for Americans undercutting the very idea of a broad middle class society.

In my recent copy of baseline magazine a magazine targeted at chief information officers (CIOs). I saw an article called "How to leave Iraq"

I always like to read diaries that take a non-political perspective on issues we talk about here so I thought I pull out some excerpts from this one.  

Crossposted from SmokeyMonkey.org

At the beginning of August, the EPA released a report to Congress per its Energy Star program requirements.  This EPA report (PDF) details the increasing levels of energy consumed by computer datacenters, both federally and in the private sector, as well as suggesting standards that could save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This report assesses current trends in energy use and energy costs of data centers and servers in the U.S. and outlines existing and emerging opportunities for improved energy efficiency. It provides particular information on the costs of data centers and servers to the federal government and opportunities for reducing those costs through improved efficiency. It also makes recommendations for pursuing these energy-efficiency opportunities broadly across the country through the use of information and incentive-based programs.

40 million high-skill American jobs leaving for other countries.  

Alan Blinder, a Princeton economist, predicts that 40 million computer programming bookeeping, graphic deisgn and other jobs will be gone from American soil in the next decade or two.  40 million is more than twice the total number of people now employed in manufacturing.

Blinder was taken aback when, sitting in at the business summit in Davos, Switzerland, he heard U.S. executives talk enthusiastically about all the professional jobs they could outsource to lower-wage countries. And he's a free trader.

More from this Seattle Times editorial   is below the fold, and it ain't pretty.

My name is Sona Shah. I'm an Indian-American computer programmer, an American citizen, and a victim of unjust laws and unjust business practices. I lost my middle class technology job to Harris Miller's vision of the "competitive global economy" -- "business visa" abuse and offshore outsourcing.

More than just a mere "player" in the insider business lobbyist-political nexus, Miller has been one of the most influencial lobbyists for moving American white collar jobs offshore. While Miller's organization, the ITAA, is indeed a "tech lobby" the processes and excuses championed by Miller and used to move information technology jobs offshore or import low wage foreign workers are "dual use".