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BUSH ENDORSES U.S. JOBS MOVING OVERSEAS

HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
edited February 2004 in General Discussion
BUSH ENDORSES U.S. JOBS MOVING OVERSEAS

On Labor Day, President Bush said, "I want people to understand that when somebody wants to work and can't find a job, it says we've got a problem in America that we're going to deal with. We want everybody in this country working." But yesterday, President Bush directly contradicted himself, releasing a report which "supports the shift of U.S. jobs overseas." When asked about the report and how it contradicts the president's supposed concern about job losses, the president's top economic adviser said, "Outsourcing is just a new way of doing international trade."

With more than two million jobs lost since President Bush took office,
newspaper headlines across the country told readers of the White House's new support for the practice of wealthy corporations eliminating U.S. jobs and shipping them to lower-wage countries. The Seattle Times headline read, "Bush report: Sending jobs overseas helps U.S." The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said, "Bush Economic Report Praises 'Outsourcing' Jobs" and the Arizona Republic said, "Bush Report Lauds 'Outsourcing' Jobs."

And while this may be troubling to the millions in the United States who are out of work and suffering from stagnating wages, it was celebrated in India, where thousands of good paying, white-collar U.S. jobs have moved. The headlines in India read, "Bush Aides: Outsourcing win-win for India." The story said the Administration believes exporting jobs to India and other lower-wage countries "is a win-win for both exporter and importer" - failing to explain how this is a win for American workers who the president just months ago purported to care about.





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Comments

  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Keep posting them up Hairy... sooner or later ALL ( republicans and Democrats ) will catch on. I heard a statistic that 18% of Manufacturing jobs have already left the U.S. Everyone soon will be making the minimum wage or be wealthy.
  • HeavyBarrelHeavyBarrel Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Companies are in it for the money, nothing else. Are you gonna make a law making it illegal for a company to pick up and move? I don't like it either but the free market is exactly that. Hairy, what do you propose to do about this?
  • Red223Red223 Member Posts: 7,946
    edited November -1
    Companies dont make money, ceo's make money. no one else


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  • HeavyBarrelHeavyBarrel Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
  • HAIRYHAIRY Member Posts: 23,606
    edited November -1
    HeavyBarrel: quote:Companies are in it for the money, nothing else. Are you gonna make a law making it illegal for a company to pick up and move? I don't like it either but the free market is exactly that. Hairy, what do you propose to do about this?If the tax laws were not so favorable to these companies, they wouldn't be moving there, would they? So do about it: Change the tax laws to make it less financially worthwhile for the companies to move. (I'm a dreamer, aren't I?)[:D]





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  • HeavyBarrelHeavyBarrel Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sounds interesting, might work.
  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,822 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ever notice that people who voted for this bozo just can't seem to admit they made a mistake?

    Keep on voting for him.....pretty soon you'll be sitting on gunbroker all day long instead of working.....


    Merc (fed up with people who can't see the light....and no, the democrats are no better!)




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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Same kind of situation in California.
    Companies there are relocating to states with "favorable" taxes.
    As revenues is lost because of the companies moving out.
    The taxes have to be raised on the companies that are still there, to make up the difference.
    Can you see a pattern here?


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