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Counterpunch Special Report As Jobs Leave America's Shores... The Paul Craig Roberts: The New Face of Class War in America Page 1 of 56 home / subscribe / donate / tower / books / archives / search / links / feedback / events / faq What You're Missing in Our Subscriber-only CounterPunch Newsletter Special Investigation: Why Did the World Trade Towers Fall? A scientific explanation at last, from a physicist and mechanical engineer. P. Sainath recalls Gandhi's 9/11, one hundred years ago; Chris Sands reports from Afghanistan on the rise of the Taliban. just missed, but can still get, in our last newsletter: Paul Craig Roberts on the Collapse of America. CounterPunch Online is read by millions of viewers each month! But remember, we are funded the subscribers to the print edition of CounterPunch. Please support this website by buying a subscription to our newsletter, which contains fresh material you won't find anywhere else, or by making a donation towards the cost of this online edition. Remember contributions are tax Click here to make a donation . If you find our site useful please: Subscribe Now! Get CounterPunch By Email for Only $35 a Year ST. CLAIR IN PORTLAND; COCKBURN & P. SAINATH IN OLYMPIA AND BERKELEY Today's Stories Weekend Edition Now Available September 30 / October 1, 2006 from CounterPunch Sept. 30 / 0ct. 1, 2006 The Case Against Israel By Michael Neumann Weekend Edition CounterPunch Special Report Paul Craig Roberts The New Face of As Jobs Leave America's Shores... Class War The New Face of Class War September 29, 2006 Bruce Jackson By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Chavez's Reading, Bush's Reading Te attacks on middle-class jobs are lending new meaning Michael J. Smith to the phrase "class war". The ladders of upward mobility The Lobby Debate are being dismantled. America, the land of opportunity, is Does Manhattan giving way to ever deepening polarization between rich and poor. Emira Woods http://counterpunch.com./roberts09302006.html 12/6/2008 Paul Craig Roberts: The New Face of Class War in America Page 2 of 56 Oil Trip: Record The assault on jobs predates the Bush regime. However, Click Here to Order Michael Profits for Exxon, the loss of middle-class jobs has become particularly Neumann's Devastating Deprivation for Africa intense in the 21st century, and, like other pressing Rebuttal of Alan Dershowitz problems, has been ignored by President Bush, who is William S. Lind focused on waging war in the Middle East and building a WHAT'S INSIDE The Sanctuary police state at home. The lives and careers that are being Grand Theft Pentagon: Illusion: Pakistan, lost to the carnage of a gratuitous war in Iraq are Tales of Greed and Afghanistan and Iraq paralleled by the economic destruction of careers, families, Profiteering in the War on as Theme Parks for and communities in the U.S.A. Since the days of President 4GW Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s, the U.S. government by Jeffrey St. Clair has sought to protect employment of its citizens. Bush has David Swanson turned his back on this responsibility. He has given his Mommy, What's support to the offshoring of American jobs that is eroding Waterboarding? the living standards of Americans. It is another example of his betrayal of the public trust. Jonathan Cook Bad Faith and the "Free trade" and "globalization" are the guises behind Destruction of which class war is being conducted against the middle Palestine class by both political parties. Patrick J. Buchanan, a three- time contender for the presidential nomination, put it well when he wrote1 that NAFTA and the various so-called Website of the Day trade agreements were never trade deals. The agreements Jesus: the were enabling acts that enabled U.S. corporations to dump Recruitment Tapes their American workers, avoid Social Security taxes, health care and pensions, and move their factories offshore to locations where labor is cheap. September 28, 2006 The offshore outsourcing of American jobs has nothing to Sen. Russ Feingold do with free trade based on comparative advantage. The Flaws in the Offshoring is labor arbitrage. First world capital and Military Commissions technology are not seeking comparative advantage at Act home in order to compete abroad. They are seeking absolute advantage abroad in cheap labor. Ron Jacobs The Generals, the Two recent developments made possible the supremacy of Democrats and Iraq: absolute over comparative advantage: the high speed One Policy, Two Internet and the collapse of world socialism, which opened Parties China's and India's vast under-utilized labor resources to first world capital. Mokhiber / Weissman Scenes from Laura's In times past, first world workers had nothing to fear from Book Festival: Elmo cheap labor abroad. Americans worked with superior Will Not Save You capital, technology and business organization. This made Americans far more productive than Indians and Chinese, Lee Sustar and, as it was not possible for U.S. firms to substitute A Left Challenge to cheaper foreign labor for U.S. labor, American jobs and Lula living standards were not threatened by low wages abroad or by the products that these low wages produced. Robert Jensen Finding My Way Back The advent of offshoring has made it possible for U.S. to Church -- and firms using first world capital and technology to produce Getting Kicked Out goods and services for the U.S. market with foreign labor. The result is to separate Americans' incomes from the John Chuckman production of the goods and services that they consume. http://counterpunch.com./roberts09302006.html 12/6/2008 Paul Craig Roberts: The New Face of Class War in America Page 3 of 56 America Has Just Lost This new development, often called "globalization," allows Two More Wars cheap foreign labor to work with the same capital, technology and business know-how as U.S. workers. The Evelyn Pringle foreign workers are now as productive as Americans, with Inside America's the difference being that the large excess supply of labor Nursing Homes: a that overhangs labor markets in China and India keeps Hidden Tragedy of wages in these countries low. Labor that is equally Neglect and Abuse productive but paid a fraction of the wage is a magnet for Western capital and technology. Nicola Nasser Bush and Islam: Although a new development, offshoring is destroying Words vs. Deeds entire industries, occupations and communities in the United States. The devastation of U.S. manufacturing Uri Avnery employment was waved away with promises that a "new Political Corruption in economy" based on high-tech knowledge jobs would take Israel its place. Education and retraining were touted as the answer. Website of the Day Art Against the In testimony before the U.S.-China Commission,2 I explained that offshoring is the replacement of U.S. labor Empire with foreign labor in U.S. production functions over a wide range of tradable goods and services. (Tradable goods and services are those that can be exported or that are September 27, 2006 competitive with imports. Nontradable goods and services are those that only have domestic markets and no import Patrick Cockburn competition. For example, barbers and dentists offer A Final Explosion nontradable services. Examples of nontradable goods are Looms in Mosul perishable, locally produced fruits and vegetables and specially fabricated parts of local machine shops.) As the Camilo Mejia production of most tradable goods and services can be Blowback From Iraq: moved offshore, there are no replacement occupations for Giving Terrorism a which to train except in domestic "hands on" services such Reason to Exist as barbers, manicurists, and hospital orderlies. No country benefits from trading its professional jobs, such as Pat Williams engineering, for domestic service jobs. Tax Burdens and Cheaters in the At a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, D.C., Rockies: Send Those in January 2004, I predicted that if the pace of jobs IRS Mercenaries in outsourcing and occupational destruction continued, the Search of Montana's U.S. would be a third world country in 20 years. Despite Land Barons and Oil my regular updates on the poor performance of U.S. job Drillers growth in the 21st century, economists have insisted that offshoring is a manifestation of free trade and can only Ben Terrall have positive benefits overall for Americans. Failing Haiti: Another Bungled UN Mission Reality has contradicted the glib economists. The new high-tech knowledge jobs are being outsourced abroad Ridgeway / Ng even faster than the old manufacturing jobs. Establishment Paul Weyrich economists are beginning to see the light. Writing in Explaines His Foreign Affairs (March/April 2006), Princeton economist Opposition to the and former Federal Reserve vice chairman Alan Blinder Patriot Act: a Short concludes that economists who insist that offshore Film outsourcing is merely a routine extension of international trade are overlooking a major transformation with http://counterpunch.com./roberts09302006.html 12/6/2008 Paul Craig Roberts: The New Face of Class War in America Page 4 of 56 Joe Allen significant consequences. Blinder estimates that 42-56 Where are the Mass million American service sector jobs are susceptible to Protests? offshore outsourcing.3 Whether all these jobs leave, U.S. salaries will be forced down by the willingness of foreigners Andrew Wimmer to do the work for less. Don't Disappear Into a Black Hole Software engineers and information technology workers have been especially hard hit. Jobs offshoring, which began Franklin C. Spinney with call centers and back-office operations, is rapidly Rumsfeld's moving up the value chain. Business Week 's Michael AutoCarterization: Mandel4 compared starting salaries in 2005 with those in Skullduggery in the 2001. He found a 12.7 per cent decline in computer Pentagon's Budget science pay, a 12 per cent decline in computer engineering pay, and a 10.2 per cent decline in electrical engineering Website of the Day pay.
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