India is a jobs creator! So speaketh our President. What are the facts?

From McClatchy –

The good paying, predominantly white-collar jobs that once sustained many American communities are disappearing at an alarming rate, keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high despite the end of the Great Recession.

More troubling, these jobs in accounting, financial analysis, commercial printing and a broad array of other mostly white-collar occupations are unlikely to come back, experts predict.

There isn’t a single cause to the trend. Some of it is explained by changing technology, some of it is the result of automation. Sending well-paying jobs to low-cost centers abroad is another big part of the story. So is global competition from emerging economies such as China and India.

Well, isn’t this sweet! At what point does any politician from any party address this issue? Don’t worry about the question. They won’t. They want to talk about abortion, family values, that mess in Washington, anything in short to take your attention away from the real game.

What’s the real game, you might ask?

How many American jobs, how much American infrastructure, how much American education, science and technology, can you sacrifice to make money? Actually, you could probably rephrase it to ask, “How much money?”

What can’t you sell? Blue collar jobs? Pretty much sold most of them. Remember when they told you we were going into a post industrial world and that a good education got you a job? Well, sorry, Charlie Brown, we moved the ball again.

And we’re not going to stop moving the ball. As long as you are stupid enough to believe that with enough education, enough grit, enough self reliance, you’re going to have and keep a good job, you’re part of the problem.

You see as long as your jobs are moving overseas, as long as your jobs are rendered useless by destroying the American economy and infrastructure, as long as government policies mitigate against stability and security, you’re just a bullseye waiting for the arrow.

And it’s never going to stop unless we stop it.

The promise of America is earned not given. The promise of America is worth an enormous amount of money and if you intend to have an American dread, you have to stop the people who are willing to sell it.

James Pilant