Kerry is concerned about jobs lost overseas??? Really??

[Gopher Broke]

Kerry does not like off shore companies: Oh Really?

Just came across a bit of information regarding Kerry and his claim of the Bush administration sending jobs abroad.

Well, it seems that the Heinz Corporation, owned by Kerry's wife, has 79 plants where it manufacturers products and 57 of the 79 are located in countries outside of the U.S. How many U.S. jobs are lost here?

Factories located at:

Taipei,Taiwan; Dublin,Ireland; Paris,France; Dovarmenez, France; Lisbon,Portugal; Madrid,Spain; Milan,Italy; Monguzzo,Italy; Athens,Greece; Warsaw,Poland; Pudliszki,Poland; Wodzislaw,Poland; Miedzychod,Poland; Moscow,Russia; Georgievisk,Russia; Cairo,Egypt; Tel Aviv,Isreal; Haifa,Isreal; Elst,The Netherlands and 6 other plants there; Brussels,Belgium; Dusseldorf,Germany; Turnhout,Belgium; Rovereto,Italy; Chateaurenand,France; North York, Ontario,Canada; Wheatley,Ontario,Canada; Caracas,Venezuela; San Jose,Costa Rica; Johannesburg,South Africa; Gaborone,Botswana; Harare,Zimbabwe; Cheguta,Zimbabwe; Wellington,South Africa; Melbourne,Victoria, Australia; Republic of Singapore; Auckland, New Zealand; Tokyo,Japan; Guangzhov, People's Republic of China; Qingdao, People's Republic of China; Inchon, South Korea; Bangkok,Thailand; Mumbai, India; Jakarta, Indonesia; Surabaya, Indonesia; Manila, Philippines; Wanchai, Hong Kong.

Think of the conflict of interest a President would have who's wife owns business interests in all of these countries and others. Pass it on!!!! We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hannity said last week 70-something percent of Heinz employees were outside America.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Oh, don't be ridiculous. Heinz is the largest seller of, e.g., canned soup in Britain. You think that they should make it here and ship the cans overseas to Europe?

It's food. Of course it's made locally.

[SpinyNorman]

Do you really think shipping times are an issue for canned and prepared foods nowadays? I buy food items from Europe and the Middle East, India and the Far East all the time. Check your cans of tuna.

I can't think of anything Heinz makes that could not be shipped overseas like any other product.

Heinz is simply outsourcing. Been doing it for years without a second thought.

For Kerry to be bitching about it is Hypocrisy with a capital H.

[Perseverando]

Imagine that!

I'm not sure about Kerry's faith, but we know where the majority of his family's works are - OVERSEAS!

Kerry is just another democrat hypocrite!

[xp38]

From what I have read Theresa hardly owns Heinz. Her position in the company from what I have read is quite small if at all and the person who does run the company is a Republican if one goes by his political donations. That would be CEO and President Bill Johnson.

[no dems]

Yeah, well, my question is: "When will the GOP make this an issue?" But then again, even though there are many free thinking union people who wouldn't vote for Kerry anyhow, the Neanderthals who have voted the way the union tells them to for years would support Kerry even if he was found sharing a bed with Michael Jackson and a 12 year old boy.

[Ciexyz]

As a Pittsburgh resident, I have a number of relatives who worked at Heinz over the years. It was their ticket to the middle class. They always urged me to sign up and get on the hiring list, since Heinz was paying ten bucks an hour to start back in the late 70's, a good starting wage. (I went into another enterprise.) Now I hear from my relatives that the current owner of the plant, Del Monte foods, may eventually outsource the remaining factory jobs. So much for an entree to the Middle Class for American workers.

[bray]

And he pontificates on Global Warming and fossil fuels as his campaign 747 lifts off for another fundraiser from one of his 6 mansions!! Yaaaawn Tax & Kerry is the definition of Limolib!!

Pray for W and The Truth

[SedVictaCatoni]

Do you really think shipping times are an issue for canned and prepared foods nowadays? I buy food items from Europe and the Middle East, India and the Far East all the time. Check your cans of tuna.

It's not the time, it's the weight. Shipping steel cans of low-value-by-volume goods across an ocean is crazy.

Oil and tuna are imported because as neither raw material is available locally, they must be imported. That is not the case for soup.

Heinz is doing exactly the right thing by making baked beans for European consumption in Europe, and ketchup for American consumption in America.

[SpinyNorman]

Then by extension, the other companies outsourcing their jobs are probably doing the right thing as well.

My point is that Kerry cannot have it both ways, and he is inextricably tied to Heinz by marriage anyway.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Then by extension, the other companies outsourcing their jobs are probably doing the right thing as well.

The point is, the jobs were never American to "outsource" in the first place. That's like saying that if Dell opened a sales center in Australia to sell to Australians, that those jobs "left" the US.