Outsourcing is bad, insourcing is better (Republicans test new phrase)

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The Hill
March 9, 2004


Outsourcing is bad, insourcing is better
Republicans test a new phrase in debate over jobs
By Josephine Hearn


Stung by Democrats’ attacks on the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas, Republicans have begun to emphasize “insourcing” — a catchy new term that describes the friendlier flip side of free trade.

Insourcing is the movement of foreign jobs to the United States. Conventionally known as foreign direct investment, insourcing has risen in recent years as more foreign firms set up operations in America.

(One example: the 4,300-worker BMW factory in Greer, S.C.)

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“Outsourcing is a matter of concern,” said Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on the Senate floor last week, “but we are proud of the insourcing that is going on, too, and the fact there is an enormous number of foreign corporations that have come into our country because they think it has a good business environment.”


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House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Calif.) sent around a “Dear Colleague” letter last month that introduced House members to the insourcing term and included a Feb. 4 op-ed piece from the News & Observer of Charlotte, N.C., trumpeting the benefits of insourcing.


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http://www.thehill.com/news/030904/insourcing.aspx

[I AM SPARTACUS]

1. how come all these alleged insourcing jobs are NOT resulting in higher

levels of employment...???

[aquart]

2. Hmm. Businesses move for lax regs and cheap labor.

Wow. George has successfully turned us into a third world nation.

What a proud achievement.

[Sugarbleus]

3. lol..right you are. What and who are they "insourcing"...haven't

seen much new business in my area yet......... *tick tock*

[stopbush]

4. Lost jobs=insourcing; hamburger flipper=manufacturing job

These repigs are truly sick. Destroy the language and you control the argument.

Remember when you used to get *fired*? Then it was *let go*, then *permanently laid off*, then *downsized*, and finally, the adding-insult-to-injury *right-sized*! But not matter how they sugar coat it, YOU are out of work!

They don't give up, do they?

[radfringe]

5. Insourcing new code word

for worker visas...

with the current state of our economy, the federal debt and record-breaking deficits we are teetering on the brink - not exactly a fertile ground for foreign investors to pump money into projects that would result in jobs