U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message

[http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/~senator]

July 13, 2006

Mr. Robert

where-I-live  

Dear Mr.:

     Thank you for your letter expressing your concern 
with the outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas.  I appreciate 
hearing from you and welcome the opportunity to 
respond as this issue is of particular importance to me. 

	I have received many heartfelt letters from 
Cans who have either lost their jobs when their 
company moved jobs overseas, or know people who 
have.  It is very troubling to me that the downsizing of 
companies and the outsourcing of jobs appears to be 
becoming a trend not only in Ca, but nationwide. 
The striking loss of good jobs in Ca certainly 
indicates that both the downsizing of companies and the 
outsourcing of jobs are playing an increasingly prevalent 
role in our economy.

     As such, I believe that instead of excusing the loss 
of high paying jobs as inevitable, we should be taking 
reasonable and sensible measures to stop encouraging 
U.S. companies to move their employees overseas.  For 
example, our tax code frequently rewards companies for 
moving jobs offshore by allowing the companies to bring 
foreign earned profits back into the U.S. at a rate well 
below what you or I pay on our income taxes.
     
     We also need to invest in our future.  We must 
continue to fund and strengthen our domestic education 
system, which has made Americans the most productive 
and skilled workforce in the world.   Furthermore, we 
must invest in appropriate safety nets for those who are 
temporarily displaced by shifts in domestic industry.  
Such safety nets would include the extension of 
temporary unemployment benefits, more affordable 
healthcare for those between jobs, and more robust job 
training and placement services for people displaced by 
outsourcing.  

     I am very troubled by the loss of American jobs 
and will continue to investigate the roots of this problem 
to arrive at an appropriate and effective solution.  Please 
know that I will continue to work hard to keep good jobs 
in the U.S. and to keep Americans employed.
     

			Sincerely yours,

			Dianne Feinstein
			United States Senator