What's Wrong With Barbara Mikulski?

Big money is the problem, and it's not just Barbara, it's all of Congress. I do want to shed some light on which lobbyists she is in bed with...

The worst of the worst offence, is her taking over $12K from Accenture, $4K from Sodexo, $20K from DLA Piper and $9K from EDS PAC (who are now defunct). These are all companies that make money by shipping jobs out of the US, to cheaper labor markets. Funny that Sodexo calls this a "remote site".

In the International Association Of Global Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) annual report, Accenture and Sodexo are proudly named numbers 1 and 3 in the list of companies that outsource US jobs. They get rich doing so.   These guys pressure companies to outsource, to bolster their bottom line (for all those poor stock holders).  They use international trade law firms (Holland & Knight and Hogan Lovells law firms contributed $12.5K to Barbara) to push for free trade agreements, like the ones being considered with Central/South America now.

These agreements are crap to American workers, because the companies only want the cheap labor in these places, they know there is no market there to sell anything.  They are poor countries!

Using a company called SAP the outsourcers identify cheap labor sites outside the US.  Sodexo specializes in ensuring the basic needs of these poor communities are met, to keep them happy.  Keep them working...

Once the trigger is pulled, the plants close in the US, and the new ones pop up in Asia, EU, Canada and Central/South America.  We then take US tax dollars and obligate them to "retrain" the unemployed US workers for new jobs, that don't exist.  We also pay their unemployment.

I guess the bottom line to all this is greed.  Greed is killing the American middle-class, so the rich company owners and stock holders can get richer.  Once all this all implodes (which it will, it is now), and the "largest economy in the world" has no one left to buy all these things built by outsourced workers, the rich people in America will have a question to answer.

Was the greed worth it?  Was the last recession and it's ongoing effects, worth making a few billion dollars to a few people on Wall Street??