Most Vulnerable to Offshoring October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Foreign Trade.comments closed
Submitted by a regular reader.
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Table: “Most Vulnerable: Selected Occupations Ranked By Princeton Economist Alan Blinder As ‘Highly Offshorable’: Number of US Workers in Such Professions”, in Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2007. p. A1.
Computer programmers: 389,000.
Data entry keyers: 296,700.
Actuaries: 15,770.
Film and video editors: 15,200.
Mathematicians: 2,930.
Medical transcriptionists: 90,380.
Interpreters and translatiors: 21,930.
Economists: 12,470.
Graphic designers: 178,530.
Bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks: 1,815,000.
Microbiologists: 15,250.
Financial analysts: 180,910.
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Table: Selected occupations that should be the most vulnerable to offshoring, and number of US workers in such professions. St. Louis CofCC Blog, October 13, 2007.
U.S. President: 1.
U.S. Senate: 100.
U.S. House of Representatives: 435.
U.S. Supreme Court: 9.
U.S. State Governors: 50.
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The Zimbabwe Dollar Today October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Zimbabwe's Exchange Rate.comments closed
Today: 30,695
Yesterday: 30,725
Roberts’s Restraint October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Courts and Judiciary.comments closed
Time magazine profiles the first several years of the tenure of John Roberts, as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Two themes characterize “the first inning,” as Roberts terms his first few years on the highest bench in the country, and they are both related to restraining the judicial branch, and thereby making it co-equal with the Executive and Legislative branches once again: One is that decisions are being made by applied Constitutional and statutory law, and not by activism of either the left or right, and the other is that cases that the Roberts Court has taken up are highly specialized issues, and only apply to a small coterie of interested individuals.
In decades past, more activist courts would take up cases that affected a large swath of the population, and the decisions had far-reaching sociopolitical consequences. For instance, Brown v. Board in 1954 ultimately changed every major city in America, festered urban sprawl, and created an uproar of disgust from whites in the South and in big cities elsewhere that still lives on to this day. (To wit: This blog, the organization it represent, and the other organization which it succeeded.) Time also cites Roe v. Wade in 1973, and the legalization of aborticide by means of that decision has altered gender relations, and changed American racial demographics.
However, there doesn’t seem to be any of that today. And Time magazine is none too happy about it.
Wrong Place at the Wrong Time October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Education.comments closed
Gun incident cancels school game
Spring-Ford officials called it off last night after a fight in which the weapon appeared.Spring-Ford Area High School officials called off last night’s football game after a gun incident stemming from an after-school fight over a girl.
The dispute erupted yesterday afternoon near the high school in Royersford, Montgomery County, shortly after students were dismissed.
Damn this gun for just showing up and inserting itself in between two young men feuding over the same girl.
Surprise Package October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Black Crime, St. Louis Local.comments closed
He tried to jack a Hazelwood package liquor store. But the store clerks wrestled him to the ground and tied him up into a package, then the Hazelwood P.D. delivered the package the jail in Clayton.
Might? October 13, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Immigration, Left-Wing Extremism.comments closed
Washington Times headline:
Republicans fear federal aid for ‘far-left’ causes
As if it’s something that might happen. Newsflash: It has been going on for a long time, and not just in the realm of illegal aliens. When Republicans ran Congress, they didn’t seem to do anything to stop it.
Two top Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday called for a probe into whether a California-based legal aid group used federal grant money to fund “far-left” political causes, then stonewalled a law-enforcement investigation.
Rep. Thomas M. Davis III of Virginia and Rep. Darrell Issa of California said they want to know whether California Rural Legal Assistance Inc. (CRLA) has been using federal money to provide services for illegal aliens.
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Jose R. Padilla, executive director of CRLA, told The Times last month that the organization does not provide services to illegal aliens because federal rules prohibit the practice.
Gosh. Federal rules prohibit illegal aliens from being in the country, yet as many as 38 million are. Federal rules prohibit illegal aliens voting, but about 3 million did in the November 2000 elections. Federal law limits the use of Social Security Numbers to individual taxpayers and the Social Security Administration, and actually prohibits certain institutions (e.g. public schools) from asking for SSNs, but that doesn’t preclude just about anyone or anything from whom or which you want a service from asking for it.
