Bush: Outsourcing painful, but remedy is worse

CNN.com ^ | Friday, March 3, 2006 Posted: 1640 GMT (0040 HKT)

[Thorin]

Several of my engineer friends have commented on Bush's idiotic praise of outsourcing. Engineering enrollment in the US in down precisely because our politicians have decided that it makes sense to send technology jobs overseas.

It will be a great day for America when we outsource the jobs of people who've never done a real day's work (i.e., every member of the Bush and Kennedy families) and preserve the jobs of the American middle class.

[Shermy]

"India needs to continue to lift its caps on foreign investment ... and to continue to lower its tariffs and open its markets to American agricultural products, industrial goods and services."

In other words, Bush didn't get a deal. India can continue with its successful "protectionist" policies and we'll give in, with nothing to trade. Embarassing.

[Dallas59]

If Bush means that by outsourcing jobs it will create a lesser climate of terror....he's dead wrong.

[Shermy]

Bush supports the strip mining of the American middle classes on the mere idea that certain investment houses and farmers will benefit by the goodies they can sell overseas.

The issue should have been a major topic in the 2004 election but Kerry is a one-sided free trader as much as Bush.

[ScreamingFist]

"It's true that some Americans have lost jobs when their companies move their operations overseas," he said.

Understatement of the decade......

[svcw]

My husband is an engineer. His job is outsourced from Holland to the US.

[TomGuy]

GW is in India praising the outsourcing of US jobs to them. Chertoff is in south Texas praising the flood of illegals.

What is that rationale?

Even Bill Clinton didn't do this much damage to the Nation. It will take years to recover, assuming we can survive 3 more years of this kind of idiocy.

[Thorin]

>>>>>>>Bush supports the strip mining of the American middle classes on the mere idea that certain investment houses and farmers will benefit by the goodies they can sell overseas.

>>>>>>>The issue should have been a major topic in the 2004 election but Kerry is a one-sided free trader as much as Bush.

You are exactly right. America has been a great country in large part because it has been a middle class country. But neither party is now willing to defend the economic interests of the middle class.

[Dallas59]

We outsource and they outsource. Make it a two way street.

[SunnyD1182]

It will be a great day for America when we outsource the jobs of people who've never done a real day's work (i.e., every member of the Bush and Kennedy families) and preserve the jobs of the American middle class.

Right on. Don't forget to outsource every member of the Clinton family too. Although I'd actually outsource the Bushes before I'd outsource the Clintons, that's how incompetent Bushes have been in office, except for Jeb in Florida.

[citizen]

More globalist dogma from our Globalist President.

Outsource our jobs & technology and import poor, uneducated [and illegal] workers while our trade & spending deficits and national debt grow ever higher...there are bad times coming sooner or later.

[A knight without armor]

"We outsource and they outsource. Make it a two way street."

Or we keepsource and they keepsource. I don't want to sell chapatis on the street while an Indian does my job.

[MNJohnnie]

You are an Economic Ignorant. Take some BASIC Econ classes and you will learn why the statement you made is so rabidly irrations. Economic Isolationaism is a DISASTER for every society that has tried it. It is the SOVIET UNIONS Economic school. What bone head ignornat fools the Economic Isoationsists are.

[MNJohnnie]

You are an Economic Ignorant. Take some BASIC Econ classes and you will learn why the statement you made is so rabidly irrations. Economic Isolationaism is a DISASTER for every society that has tried it. It is the SOVIET UNIONS Economic school. What bone head ignornat fools the Economic Isoationsists are.

[MNJohnnie]

You are an Economic Ignorant. Take some BASIC Econ classes and you will learn why the statement you made is so rabidly irrations. Economic Isolationaism is a DISASTER for every society that has tried it. It is the SOVIET UNIONS Economic school. What bone head ignornat fools the Economic Isoationsists are.

[Shermy]

"GW is in India praising the outsourcing of US jobs to them. Chertoff is in south Texas praising the flood of illegals.

What is that rationale?"

Middle and lower income wage depression policy to reduce costs. Former cost cutting focus was on increasing productivity. The mantra under Bush cost reduction via labor. Certain jobs cannot be physically outsourced overseas so illegals are insourced to "fill" them - really depress the wage market for the jobs.

The Globablists were shyer during Clinton. Bush, Chertoff, etc. are on-board unabashedly. The Bushbot base is still engaged with fantasies that Bush is "sleeping" or isn't hearing from the right people, etc. etc. year after year. Bush believes in these active and tacit middle class wage reduction policies. Always has, always will. Will get away with it until the Bushbots wake up, since the Dems can't articulate a policy.

[hedgetrimmer]

The government is supposed to protect individual rights, not sacrifice individuals for an anti-American trade policy.

[MNJohnnie]

Amazing how the SAME people who scream bloody murder about the size, cost and scope of the Federal Govt what to take ever great portions of the Private Sector and force it into a Statist, Micromanaged Govt System. Big Govt run wild is what Protestionism IS you fools. Guess all that limited Govt/Cut Spending talk is just so much hot air. The last major Protectionist Tarriff was passed during Herbert Hoover's Administration. Go LOOK read the facts of what your ignorant nostrum "protectionism" ACTUALLY creates.

[TomGuy]

import poor, uneducated [and illegal] workers

A couple of days ago on his radio program, Michael Savage made reference to a report (I haven't seen it posted, nor found any other links) that GW said we will need 60 million 'immigrants' to support the Social Security program in a few years.

If that is GW's new, revised solution to Social Security, this nation is in big trouble.