Watch the latest "Fareed Zakaria GPS" special ‘Global Lessons: Putting America to Work,’ this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET.
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This year's U.S. presidential will hinge on one question: whom do you trust to be your job-creator-in-chief? Fareed Zakaria looks at the employment issues and innovative ideas that America should be talking about.
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9/22/2012. "ALL" I want is for CNN to provide us with DAILY, IN-DEPTH DISCUSSIONS regarding OUR COUNTRIES POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONFUSION!!!! Jesse Ventura, although he may be "radical", is a man with A BOLD VOICE!!! On "Piers Morgan" tonight, Ventura brought up points about OUR government that MUST BE ADDRESSED ENTIRELY!!! The idea of our government having the ability TO LIE IS NOT FAIR TO ANYONE!!! TRUE OR NOT, THE TRUTH MUST BE ESTABLISHED!!! I see many Americans with brilliant minds debating subjects that MUST BE RESOLVED!!! CNN MUST PROVIDE THESE CONCLUSIONS TO US AS THE AMERICAN PUBLIC!!! Agree of Disagree??? WE NEED TO DECIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your comment has nothing whatsoever to do with the CNN page you are on...why not go have this debate on Piers Morgan's page?
I'm tired of Fareed remaining on the air after committing plagiarism. Is anyone else concerned about this? Copying other people's work is not appropriate or ethical.
His staff failed to cite, and Fareed didn't catch it. It was a list of dates & not poetry. Get over it.
Whether or not he made that mistake is no reason to permanently label him for the remainder of his career. Everyone can change, so why not critique his current work instead of dwelling in the past?
I'm sorry Fareed but I still need to see American jobs have a come back because of outsourcing. The proof is in the pudding.
I just watched the interview with Salman Rushdie. I cannot believe that his interview was speckled with pop-ups about upcoming tv shows, etc., that hid part of his face! This is unbelievably rude! Plus his interview should have been longer given his very personal experience. Why give Bill Clinton, the consumate con artist, the bulk of the show and Mr. Rushdie a token? Poor judgement!
Well Shari, when you grow up, if you study really hard, maybe you can have your own show and make that kind of decision.
he is getting what he deserve,why not write a book on gays or the real hard ship people are going threw,the price for fame that is the out come the stake are higher on his life,did the embassador and the three live lost had to come as a consequence of some one ego,its is said an eye for eye makes the world bline,but if a man committ a crime what
Outsourcing does increase profits for American manufacturers and to their stockholders but does not provide jobs to Americans. For you to imply that because manufacturers make more profit due to cheap labor overseas where American workers will benefit from these larger profits is disingenuous since these owners do not invest in manufacturing in the USA with these added profits, they either distribute these profits to a handful of stockholders or invest more overseas.
i agree outsourcing is a huge problem and we need to pull back and grow from within... get ourselves back on track then be VERY careful not to do it all again. agreed . But not by putting everyone in a part time work status... and robbing the rich to give to the poor... let's all put our backs into it and build america again.
Outsourcing is a great way for venture capital to prey on viable companies and insure their doom. Economies need to act as if human being matter rather than seeing them as mere commodities to exploit. Outsourcing also insures that all the historical gains accomplish by unions in the United States will be constantly under assault until all the states are right to work states, pensions will be unheard of, and health care will be the sole responsibility of the worker. At that time we will be on equal standing with the Chinese and Indian worker who work for nothing, have no benefits, and are grateful to have a job. This is the real legacy of outsourcing.
This question is to Fareed directly. From my understanding, you are the CNN World news guy. So why hasn't there ever been a report by you, or CCN (I have even ran an online search to check old stories and couldn't find any) about the Icelandic Revolution that got rid of the old government and bank system, all bloodlessly?
That seems like a topic worthy of a supposed respected news station. Then again, almost no United States news stations have been giving this topic much attention. Well Bloomberg did. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-20/icelandic-anger-brings-record-debt-relief-in-best-crisis-recovery-story.html
It wasn't a good idea to bring Salman Rushdi on the show at this sensitive time
Why?
Exciting!
"Whom do you trust to be your job cteator-in-chief?"
Who commanded and conducted the job that has been created, since the last Centuries and until recently?
Well, America voted only One commander-in-Chief, to lead US.
The commande-in-Chief sworn and took responsibility, to lead US into the right directions. Some what has been promised during elections and some that has been found as priority after the elections.
However, who are conducting the budgets that has been approved for job creation? This is the burning issue. It has also the conspirators and Mafia hands on it. Jewish they conduct the budget only Jewish and their challengers to be hired, Italians for Italians,...and so on.
So, now who are left behind???
Yes, only those who do not have accesses and voices to the Government and who are not trusted by the criminal rings (Conspirators), are always affected and will be affected for the time to come.
So, what we should do to stop the Conspirators and professional Criminal gangsters???
The answer is simple. We must appointee people from the affected ethnic groups and placed judicial independent committee and accountability, without manipulations.
It is a tough things to do.
Fareed Zakaria is a water boy for Obama.
His views are biased on immigration,jobs etc.
He thinks investment in construction is a way to create jobs when Obama already failed with this very idea.
He thinks we needs more immigrants from from pakistan and other third world to supply the american job market when infact 80% of H1B visas are used by companies like infosys,wipro and Cognizant for brining in cheap and poor quality worked from India and these companies are just interested in making profit from US economy and they dont even hire people that are american citizens.
Not sure why they fired Fareed in CNN
I think your view is skewed by your own personal biased towards President Obama. How can you say the Presidents failed at creating jobs by rebuilding our infrastructure when the Republican controlled house never allowed him to pass it. As a result, it was never tried in the first place!
Without a doubt I think that American workers should get all of the jobs that we bring contract workers form overseas to fill! That should never happen when we have plenty of American workers here! First thing is first! HIRE an AMERICAN!
However, most of the ideas about bringing cheap labor from other countries comes from President Obama's "opposition" and not him! Fareed is part of a generation of new Americans who have not been here long enough to fully understand the full picture of what is happening here in America! I do not mean this in any way shape or form to be an insult toMr Sakaria, but I believe it to be true.
The ideas being used in Germany and the Netherlands are great ones, but we Americans have a lot of social issues when deciding whom to train for jobs and exactly whom to give the jobs to! For if the government were to try and help all Americans get a job, the first thing people would yell is "SOCIALISM"! What wrong with the government helping to make sure all Americans get a job? Not a damn thing! But we Americans will shoot ourselves int he foot in order to up hold our "mislead" ideals instead of progressing ahead.
If we had done this, we might not have the issues with sending jobs overseas and people from other countries taking a lot of the job openings. It is not socialism. There would need to be "MAJOR" revolutionary changes to the American government for that to happen! It is merely taking care our own!! I wish more Americans would see this!!
The work of Naomi Klein and her 50 year history of what the Milton Friedman "free market" (forced with shock therapy) sheds much light on the type of corporate influence we have coming at us through the GOP. Their economic and political behavior from Chile to China and all of Southeast Aia is what we have now in their media owned contempt toward the poor and working in America. Zakaria offers a perspective from Europe, the nations so hated by this movement. I hope CNN does another segment addressing how the IMF and World Bank functions with coporations, in order to show how entire nations are manipulated in this lawless world market.
Nice analysis!
Having just come back from Germany the report from Fareed is very skewed. What he failed to leave out is that once the apprenticeship that most youth are participating in are rarely offered a fulltime opportunity to continue their work in that field and then if so they get limited, mostly yearly contracts only, thus making it very difficult to do any planning as to building a house, making major investments and leaving on their own. The report talked about pay for apprentice but it is not competive in regards to world views and about half of the pay is funding the social programmes that provide an unemployed worker 90% of the pay they received previously – for the unemployed there is no modivation to seek a job while they are being compensated very well for being unemployed.
The dream of owning a home of their own is for most people an unachievable goal due to the pay limitations.
Fareed, excellent informative program. Please follow up with a similar program on our so-called regulatory burden. Which are the regulations which are supposedly unnecessary and burdensome?
I'm watching the Fareed Sakaria GPS Job security segment. FAREED we are NOT Germany or the Netherlands. Why are you comparing our free system to there's? I may be alone but I for one, do not want to be a socialist state!
i agree TOTALLY. My Father was a Col in the USAF and this is digusting! do you really want americans to all work for the socialist TEMP AGENCY OF AMERICA?? omg what is happening to my country !! WAKE UP AMERICA !
I'm watching the Fareed Sakaria GPS Job security segment. FAREED we are NOT Germany or the Netherlands. Why are you comparing our free system to there's? I may be alone but I for one, do not want to be a socialist state
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You call US`s system a "free system" and call ADVANCED democracies of Netherlands and Germany a socialism ?
Just have closer look on what is going on in the US; I don´t know your age, but I am 100% sure, you really don´t know
what socialism is...
Btw, have you ever been in Europe ?
i was born in europe, I live in america, I know what freedom is and I would like a full time, permanent job with benefits please.
JT
The show attempts to explain why America has fallen in the ranks and other countries have risen. By ignoring other countries we will continue our demise. You show your ignorance when you cannot even spell "their's" correctly.
Please make Putting America to Work available in sections for embedding in other websites (or YouTube it for embedding) - especially the section that we need to do BOTH what Obama and Romney suggest
"Putting America to Work" was a magnificent TV presentation of world class improvements to global capitalism as it is that we must consider now.
One problem not presented in great detail was balancing supply and demand by printing money instead of collecting more taxes.
Of course I do not refer to printing too much money so that what is printed will not work. I refer to the power of nations to print, for full employment, only enough money to stop taxation from reducing essential balancing demand.
If full employment is maintained to raise supply to where the American Second Bill of Rights of January 11, 1944, implies it must be, then we are ready to raise that supply to world class quality standards over time.
Sixty Minutes in the hour before GPS (but on CBS) offered political views that needed GPS ideas on work, and FDR's Economic Rights (Second Bill), to be combined - so that we go to work and stay at work until poverty is no more.
I will copy this to Amazon Politics and Economics forums for audience participation there as well as here.
Magnificent? You call 70% of the work force reduced to part-time temporary workers, bicycle riding everywhere magnificent? All that is missing is the grey little uniforms… Well I have worked temp and found it stressful and nerve wracking. Call me crazy but Europe is not the United States… you can’t compare the two. We are the most Industrial Nation in the World.. we started the whole thing …. We can do better.
Magnificent? You call 70% of the work force reduced to part-time temporary workers, bicycle riding everywhere magnificent? All that is missing is the grey little uniforms… Well I have worked temp and found it stressful and nerve wracking. Call me crazy but Europe is not the United States… you can’t compare the two. We are the most Industrial Nation in the World.. we started the whole thing …. We can do better.
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I don´t know where from you have all the statistics, but being frank, it is rubbish. How can you compare Europe to the chinese regime (which is btw definitely not to be called communists, they´re worse) ??? And on the top quote that 70% of the workforce is in part time / temporarely contracts ??
And please, for fairness sake, stop telling me that USA is the most "industrialized country" and "we started it". Read statistics, but the correct ones. Industrial revolution as such started middle of the 17th century in England. US industrialization followed singificantly around 1850 onwards.
All the best.
Links to above discussion on CNN GPS and others
http://www.whatisamericanmoney.com/putustowork.htm
FROM THE WASHINGTON POST VIA AMAZON POLITICS FORUM
The Washington Post Editorial on Obama
By Matt Patterson (Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)
Government & Society:
Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.
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Gelles added this partisan idea to the above because it explains much of the problem we are addressing.
agreed. well said.
The reason our current president was elected was to prove to those who voted for him that they were so impressed by his desire for change and their own open mindedness on race that he was a better choice than Hillary Clinton or John McCain.
I also believe without any proof that our president is lucky. It is hard to ignore our own desire for good luck when we make certain choices.
it's almost like he is being voted in be HE CAN... without any further thought of what that entails or will do to the country. wow... FB democracy...
Excellent show, but you should be showing this program EVERY week until US employers get it. There is much to absorb with the differences in mindset and if you have not lived that experience it's difficult to wrap your head around these new and very effective concepts.
PS Why is CNN repeating this show 2 more times ONLY for CNN international viewers?
@Bianca:
Excellent show, but you should be showing this program EVERY week until US employers get it. There is much to absorb with the differences in mindset and if you have not lived that experience it's difficult to wrap your head around these new and very effective concepts.
PS Why is CNN repeating this show 2 more times ONLY for CNN international viewers?
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You´re nail it. 100%. It is about the mind set. The average American will call purely democratic countries like f.i. Netherlands and Germany "socialists" and "communists". This is the opinion which grew over decades in ths US.
But, this is not true. There are ways for the US to get out fo this horrible and world peace jeopardizing dead lock you´re in now. It requires a change of mindset and some logic.
Being European, I do highly appreciate the system, although am never home, because I am working abroad for almost 20 years now. Believe it or not, it make´s me sleep well knowing that my children have a right for unpaid education of good level and if I need public service, it is there...Because for that, I am paying taxes, and not necessarely..
Not all, which is DIFFERENT to the US is bad and "socialism " communism".
All the best.
NEW and effective? look at China... there is nothing new about it... when 70% of your workforce is NOT working full time, and making enough to afford a car and not a bIcycle THAT is not effective.. ok ... I just want to say something... when they train treasury workers to recognize counterfeit money in America... they show them THE REAL THING.. to memorize it... then when they come across the counterfeit they know it.... now I don't know WHAT i was looking at in this program... but it was NOT democracy... I have lived in democracy my entire life... that was not what I was hearing or seeing.
Chicago mayor said "when US was investing 4% in infrastructure our growth rate was 4%. When we invested 2% our growth rate was 2%." Be careful: Correlation does not prove causation. It could be the other way around -growth rate causing infrastructure investment, or the growth rate could be coming from something else, or so-called exogenous growth perhaps relating to which industrial revolution you're in the middle of. Mind you if you control the industrial revolutions -green energy, nano-tech- then growth becomes 'endogenous' to the extent you can manufacture industrial revolutions that increase value and productivity.
Yes but infrastructure adds more value than nanotech or social networking – see the following link/paper for a comparison of the impacts of various industrial revolutions – the thought experiment goes like this: imagine chosing between all the innovations up to year 2000 or chosing all the innovations that came after year 2000. For the second case you'd get social networking and nanotech, but haul a ton of water in buckets each day, and use an outhouse for a washroom. Conclusion the first industrial revolution with waterpipes and roads was the most valuable industrial revolution. Bottom line: infrastructure delivers more value than the current indstrial revolutions in nanotech and social networking. http://www.cepr.org/pubs/PolicyInsights/CEPR_Policy_Insight_063.asp – the pdf on this page
Mr. Zakaria in his typical one sided fashion tries to glamorize places like Dubai that treats foreign employees and labor like slaves. He highlights Dubai creating 10M jobs in a decade and none of those jobs are held by the 10% locals who have NO intellectual capital except that which their Oil can buy. Fareed should know as an Indian how some of the people from his homeland are treated. Places like Dubai and the rest of these gulf states will never be a target of criticism by media because, God forbid, if you do, you will be pumping $8/gallon into your Escalades. And as is customary for Mr. Zakaria, there is always that shameless plug about the great powerhouse that is Mother India. I wonder if some of my fellow Americans know that 25 years ago India was as as Socialist as they get. I am a proud American but have see first hand the unabated discrimination at the hands of these Gulf Arabs who exploit the poor who work unimaginable hours in dire conditions and are kept away from the glitz of the half a mile high building that is now the latest monument for capitalism. Looks like your GPS is acting up Fareed. Or is it your "moral compass" to make good with the Sheikh's.
Remember Saddam banned helva making back 10 years ago. Helva takes fat, flour and sugar to make. You just stir it around so that it does not get burned.. It was so easy to make that Saddam banned it simmply because no one did ANYTHING ELSE.. By the way Libia was under more or less global sanctions in the meanwhile. So hardly a chance to learn about a cheesecake. How far can a cook go on global curfew on the way to a eggnug? That is the global answer I wander.
But meanwhile an U entreprneur may make some money on cooking HELVA.
Fareed, On your Sunday GPS program, you suggested that outsourcing is actually a good thing. You quoted someone from a long time ago that said if you can buy a product from someone who could make it better and cheaper that everyone wins. I suggest that many of the companies who went offshore did not do that at all. They took existing products to low wage rate countries and actually set them up to produce these products. These products were not already being produced there. In fact, I believe many of the workers haven't a clue what they are producing. The quality was very questionable. And, when you think about warranty work, they suddenly can't understand you.
The good thing about proper outsourcing is that it shows Americans that we are not No.1 in many areas and it prompts us to improve.
Fareed Zakaria's program is one of the most refreshing, thought provoking, well written programs I've watched in a long time. I too disagree with some of the things he chooses to highlight, but he and his writers present a very well rounded mixing pot of ideas that many people are not talking about...(In depth) We are running out of time and we need to get started by bringing new ideas and tough decisions to the forefront. Chicago is a great example. Both sides of the isle have to agree on something and put people back to work. This government doesn't think long term like it should. (10-20 years) Things like energy, infrastructure, technology, education. It's just bits and pieces of legislation that get passed to pacify us until the next bridge collapse, middle east conflict or us government hacking incident.
Well done on keeping the conversation going guys. Keep it up!
Well said Shawn! Some of the most innovative ideas are coming from the local levels of government.
All things considered, I see the next 4 years of boomtime charlie for USA. Provided President Obama gets reelected so that he can aggressively pursue his ambition and plans to uplift America's improving economy – and brighten up a gloomy global image have of USA.
But this will not be possible – if Republicans control Congress. Which will turn America's economy and policies back to square one where Congress will be a hindrance to reform and creation of more American jobs.
Contrary to what American medias are hailing as good signs – I feel bringing American companies back to US is going to hurt American pockets more than before.
I guess the President is busy in fighting for Coal !
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Is CNN retransmitting this special? or Where can you replay the entire show?
Will this episode be rebreadcast in the USA? How else might it be available?
Fareed, I enjoyed the program very much, and as usual, there seems to be many lessons that the US can learn from other countries. One thing that your story didn't address is the large sector of older displaced workers here in the US that seem doomed to remain unemployed or forced to accept menial employment for the remainder of their lives. What hope is there for these people who will enter their golden years with depleted resources and less-than-optimal health due to the current lack of medical insurance? None of us have any job security and laws to prohibit age-discrimination are a joke. Corporations are free to dump longtime and loyal employees in favor of younger, cheaper ones and the long term impact on our economy can only be dismal.
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I can't agree with Fareed about Rmney on two grounds. First: J wouldn't call him a good Govenor. He used Mass. for a resume for his Presidental bid. In mass we were well aware of his motives. Plus he failed to run again because of the very good chance that he would fail and that would not have looked good on his resume.When Romney left the govenorship he took all of his computer record of his transactions. Why?
Second he sounds like a little boy when he says that he is afraid of releasing his tax returns because people may make fun of him. I don't believe that he is afraid of America knowing where his funds are but where they came from.