{"id":283,"date":"2003-07-22T00:57:14","date_gmt":"2003-07-22T07:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/22\/no-lutefisk-outsourcing\/"},"modified":"2003-07-22T00:57:14","modified_gmt":"2003-07-22T07:57:14","slug":"no-lutefisk-outsourcing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/22\/no-lutefisk-outsourcing\/","title":{"rendered":"No lutefisk outsourcing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TomPaine.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tompaine.com\/feature2.cfm\/ID\/8390\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph                   Nader writes about the last 40 years export of millions of                   jobs overseas in the name of free trade<\/a>. It really is no                   secret that IT jobs being outsourced overseas is reminiscent                   of Detroit&#8217;s export of automotive jobs from its Michigan plants                   to cheaper states, and then eventually to Mexico and other                   countries with a cheaper labor force and lax environmental                   laws. This race-to-the-bottom is covered in detail at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtech.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washtech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yay! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seafoodfest.org\/index-alt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The                   Ballard Seafood Festival<\/a>! Lutefisk, anyone? July 26th and                   27th in Seattle&#8217;s favorite neighborhood. It looks like polka!<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/22\/no-lutefisk-outsourcing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At TomPaine.com, Ralph Nader writes about the last 40 years export of millions of jobs overseas in the name of free trade. It really is no secret that IT jobs being outsourced overseas is reminiscent of Detroit&#8217;s export of automotive jobs from its Michigan plants to cheaper states, and then eventually to Mexico and other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/22\/no-lutefisk-outsourcing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No lutefisk outsourcing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/07\/22\/no-lutefisk-outsourcing\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}