NoSlaves.com is a group of activists, grassroots lobbyists and bloggers trying to obtain trade, economic and global labor policies which will strengthen working America, the middle classes and are in the national economic interest.
FAQ:
Q: How come my comment didn’t show up?
A: We moderate the first two comments. After that, you have proved you are a thinking human, so you can post comments unmoderated, although anything is subject to edit to keep the blog on topic.
Q: How come even though I’ve posted more than 2 comments my comment didn’t show up?
A: It’s probably off-topic or has no actual insight, details or information.
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A: This is a group blog but in order to author on here you must contact the site administrator to have your account upgraded.
Q: What is “off-topic”?
A: We talk about trade, labor economics, especially global labor issues, budget deficits and general economic issues that affect the middle class. We especially center in on H-1B for many in our group are directly affected by global labor arbitrage with this guest worker Visa. We are not social conservatives but because these issues are bi-partisan, we try to keep that whole topic realm off of the blog. We also want fact based posts. Anything based on Objective studies that is trade, economic and labor focused, budget deficits, tax code, corruption skewing economic policy, are most welcome to be discussed.
Comments don’t seem to work
Yes they do, but the site is moderated. You have to post your comment and if it’s spam or troll like behavior, you won’t see it. but this is all you tried.
For some reason, it keeps saying ‘wrong math’ to the answer. Anyways, reformus.org petition agrees with the views here.
Thanks for alerting me to that, if one registers that script doesn’t show up and yes it’s broken it seems, so it’s now fixed.
People can just post, they don’t have to fill out the information if they don’t want to, should be easier.
I know about reformus.org, very nice ad. but the Americanworkercoalition.org site is linking to a series of groups and sites that are defunct and some of the domains even are not registered.
I’m a little confused now as to who is behind it. I saw NumbersUSA there so are they now expanding to present activism just based on labor economics?
This is just a comment about ads. I’ve been experimenting, trying to find a way where things are free yet we can fund some trips to DC. Unfortunately adsense (Google) I couldn’t control very well what was showing up on the site. I just switched it so hopefully no more “Ann Coulter”. But one thing you could see is just how much money various attorneys, “recruiters” are making from H-1B, L-1 and offshore outsourcing, because there are thousands of advertisers peddling cheap labor via web ads.
We are Progressives, Populists, Democrats so as any Political site using ad sense, you might see some ads that are completely out of place, or the anti-thesis of economic policy that is in the US national interest. We’re working on it, but bear in mind making the opposition pay for our writings cannot possibly be a bad thing.
How come only a few countries are being mentioned in this outsourcing mess? Back in the 1980s, the US heavily outsourced to Japan and China and no one complained. India isn’t the only country with firms taking over US ones. Plenty of other countries especially in Europe and South America are doing the same. Besides, no country can take away your jobs unless you actually let them. You’ll have to go local first and then work it to the top.
“How come only a few countries are being mentioned in this outsourcing mess? ”
That indeed is the problem and this is why the US continues to lose. There are plenty of offshoring deals in the works that aren’t even mentioned on this blog or for that matter on most blogs. The reason why Mexico and India are targeting more than other foreign countries doing just as much damage is simple. In those countries, there are just as many dark skinned people as there are light skinned ones. Japan and Russia have been sucking out just as many jobs but you’ll never hear anyone in the US complain about it because there are fewer darker skinned people living there. Likewise, in Europe and a great deal of South America. China is perhaps an exception though despite the fact that that country is getting the most from offshoring, you’ll hear very little of it on this blog or most, let alone the news media. But set aside race, we can be angry and violently react all we want but until we all learn to get our ideas together and reframe the debate on all economic issues, it’s going to continue to be a lose-lose situation. Moreover, neither the author of this blog or most blogs ever mention the fact that it was our MISleaders since 1980 whose economic policies of union busting, wage depression, offshoring, outsourcing, undermining of worker safety rights, giving huge tax breaks to companies that shaft their workers and/or even outsource while raising taxes against companies that treat their workers with respect, privatization, and deregulation completely opened the doors to massive illegal immigration and visa abuse by big business. Add to it the US Government/Media support of oppressive regimes along with illegal wars and this is what this country is stuck with and will continue that way for the foreseeable future
That is absolutely ridiculous. It has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with PPP. PPP is purchase power parity and is precisely what corporations are manipulating for cost savings. They also do this for capital protection, tax savings. The only color involved here is green, as in the dollar.
The fact that we’re talking about India here is because India and China are influencing our Congress right at the moment. But, that is the United States fault for having such a corrupted system and no real plan that is in the national economic interest.
I let this post slide because it’s idiotic and so others can read such absurdity and realize so.
Trying to claim that global economics, labor arbitrage agenda is somehow “racist” is absurd, naive and does not follow what is going on here in terms of economics.
Russia is NOT getting the billions in offshore outsourcing because of the government, corruption and security issues as well as the multinational corporate players themselves. It’s also absurd to assume that somehow the United States is all white people or Russia is all white people. Or all economists are white people. I think someone needs to look up their ethnic diversity per nation state!
It’s also absurd to think that racism can only occur in white people.
Japan is not sucking out jobs because they also have a 1st world PPP. They have a very focused, long term, government involved R&D, investment strategy and they focus especially on targeting technologies which require sophisticated manufacturing capital, design and expertise. One area is lasers, another is batteries and they do not labor arbitrage their citizens. They are sucking out industries, not jobs by pure labor arbitrage. China demands the US train their citizens and give them major manufacturing know-how, corporate secrets and partner with the Chinese government to do business in and with China. That’s giving away industries for a short term profit increase and is in the China PNTR trade agreement.
Europe has a PPP that is more equal to the US and so does Canada, which is why jobs are not moving there and in fact offshore outsourcing, insourcing is a major one with those nations, any 1st world economy.
The EU has better worker protections than the United States, which is one of the reasons the US is being so targeted, it’s workforce has little representation in Washington D.C.
As far as our MISleaders, this blog is entirely about writing about our leaders, current policy and bills as well as trying to get good Progressives and economic populists into office. Since you are commenting into the about page, instead of the many articles where comments are welcome and I address these very things, I’ll assume you just decided to name call erroneously and didn’t bother to read any of the articles.
While I have to write up positions on the GOP Presidential candidates there is not one of them who is addressing trade, offshore outsourcing and insourcing in total. There is no real Progressive or Economic Populist running.