“Globalize This” Corporate Hiring Job Jam Dance Party

by on January 31, 2011 · 7 comments

in Are You Kidding?, Economy, Labor

Here’s an audio/video project cobbled together from publicly available information… a reaction to President Barack Obama’s emphasis on job creation in his “State of the Union” speech last week.

Just want to point out that American corporations are creating plenty of jobs all the time!

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annagrace January 31, 2011 at 3:45 pm

Gee Shane- this wasn’t nearly as much fun as your satires. I would like to know these companies’ tax rate here. Google pays 5% taxes because it is registered in Holland.

Our Prez, in his State of the Union address talked about maintaining a technological edge to remain competitive in global market. He didn’t say very much about policies that enable multi-national corporations to establish a presence where labor is cheap. That’s a helluva competitive edge…

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Dixon Guizot February 1, 2011 at 8:23 pm

Yes, I always wondered about “free trade agreements” under which citizens are still bound by national borders but corporations hop-skotch from country to country. That’s not NAFTA, that’s GRAFTA (ba-da-boom-tiss)

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RB February 2, 2011 at 5:56 am

Shane, you only feel this way because you are a part of the old economy and are still doing your own work. You need to outsource your work.
http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourcing-own-jobs-oversea,14329/

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RB February 1, 2011 at 10:03 am

We have the highest corporate rates in the world.

Germany taxes internal consumption not all production and does not tax profits made on goods sold outside of Germany. Gee, I wonder if this is why Germany exports 30% of what it’s well paid workers produce? If you want to export jobs all you have to do is tax profits made overseas.

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annagrace February 1, 2011 at 3:03 pm

That is exactly what we need to do- tax profits made overseas.

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Dixon Guizot February 1, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Man, I thought Google was so cool. But tax dodging is so weak.

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