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Take This Job and Ship It
Byron Dorgan
How Corporate Greed and Brain-Dead Politics Are Selling Out America
Thomas Dunne Books
August 2006
288 pages
ISBN: 031235522X
EAN: 9780312355227
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political
Our trade deficit increases by $2 billion a day.
Pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists have such
influence in Washington that Medicare, by current law, is
not allowed to negotiate lower drug prices. We import oil on
an ever-increasing scale, putting ourselves into dept with
the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, and other Middle Eastern nations.
With their windfall profits, they continue to buy American
assets. China's booming economy and abundance of cheap labor
are threatening our economic survival. We have mortgaged our
fortunes, our principles, and our way of life. In this comprehensive look at the real, human toll of
America's unsound trade policy, Senator Byron Dorgan exposes
the myth of "free trade." Indeed, free trade is not free; it
is something that is slowly but surely draining away
American prosperity. Sure, Chinese labor can drive down
prices at Wal-Mart; at the same time, however, those saved
wages--dollars that would have gone to buy these cheaper
goods--are gone. Too soon, it will all come crashing down. Major U.S. corporations continue to ship jobs overseas by
the millions and, because of their influence in Washington,
avoid paying a king's ransom in taxes. Many billions of
dollars that these companies fleece from the government and
the American people go overwhelmingly to investments in
expanding production capabilities overseas. In short, our
government is in the grip of corporate and foreign
interests, and the American worker has born the brunt of
this culture of corruption. How can we stem the tide of
outsourcing? Why has the White House done nothing? Will the
middle class survive? From describing corporate profiteering to calling to action
a lethargic, inactive government, Byron Dorgan exposes the
truth about the destructive relationship between
corporations and Congress and proposes strategies for what
can really be done to preserve America's preeminence in the
world.
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