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Bush: Outsourcing painful, but remedy is worse
CNN.com ^ | Friday, March 3, 2006 Posted: 1640 GMT (0040 HKT)

Posted on 03/04/2006 2:25:11 PM PST by Gengis Khan

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Praising India's expanding economy, President Bush warned Friday that fears about job outsourcing to other nations should not prompt the United States to limit global trade. "It's ... important to remember that when someone loses a job it's an incredibly difficult period for the worker and their families," Bush said in a speech in New Delhi. "It's true that some Americans have lost jobs when their companies move their operations overseas," he said. "Some people believe the answer to this problem is to wall off our economy from the world through protectionist policies. I strongly disagree."

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To: nopardons
I do quite well indeed, my friend.

I just feel no desire to broadcast it.

I also feel some kind of obligation to my country - and you obviously don't. Your "I'm all right jack, screw you" attitude wins your position no friends, thank God.

I just hope the Republicans are smart enough to avoid your kind of country club attitudes.

241 posted on 03/04/2006 9:02:15 PM PST by rcocean (Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
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To: svcw

Watch out for irate, unemployed Dutch engineers! You should be ashamed of yourself.


242 posted on 03/04/2006 9:08:00 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: nopardons

You're funny....and transparent. So how many "white guys that don't speak Spanish" work for you?.....LOL! What do you do, pick "white guys" off the street or are you so filthy rich that you demand they come with resumes?....LOL! Is your maid typing for you as you sleep or are you, as the class act you pretend to be, nocturnal? And Lastly, why rub shoulders with us lowlifes, unless you want to influence our opinion.....try to respond without slapping the crap out of the abuse button...


243 posted on 03/04/2006 9:09:44 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: rcocean
Neither do I feel compelled to talk about my life in the real world. But sometimes, it serves as refutation.

Obviously, you feel NO obligation to following FR's posting rules ( no profanity nor cuss words, yet you've used the same non allowed word at least twice now ), so why should I believe that you feel anything much, including "obligation" to America?

Did you serve in the military? If not, then this conversation is at an end; since you proved that your so-called "obligatory" feelings towards this nation, are a sham.

Your position loses elections, loses wars, and does a disservice to this nation.

244 posted on 03/04/2006 9:35:27 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Did you serve in the military?

Did you? Get off your high horse.....you are one of the most pitiful and belligerent posters on this forum, and I believe you are posting from a shack, not a mansion.

245 posted on 03/04/2006 9:41:08 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: nopardons

Military service? Well, when and in what branch did you serve? And were you drafted?

I wasn't aware that the word "God" was regarded as profane.

Frankly, I thank God every day that I was born in the USA, by God.

God bless the USA.

And God bless us, everyone.


246 posted on 03/04/2006 9:44:12 PM PST by rcocean (Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
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To: rcocean

Amen.


247 posted on 03/04/2006 9:45:22 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: ScreamingFist
I don't think that women belong in the military, so no, I wasn't in it.

Frankly, I don't care WHAT you think or believe. But, just to keep things honest and above board, would you be so kind as to CCP the post, where I said that I "live in a mansion"? :-)

It is patently obvious that your projection complex takes precidence over all eles.

248 posted on 03/04/2006 10:00:30 PM PST by nopardons
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To: rcocean
Not the word GOD, the word "screw".

Oh, so you did NOT serve in any branch of the service. So your "sense of obligation to this nation" doesn't include any actual OBLIGATION at all. Just as I thought! :-)

249 posted on 03/04/2006 10:03:11 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Your position loses elections, loses wars, and does a disservice to this nation.

Darn straight. Tell your handlers that YOU are PO'ing more people than the time and effort are worth, then go drink a beer with MNJokie (still MIA notice) and laugh about how you were outed......

250 posted on 03/04/2006 10:04:34 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: ScreamingFist
Sorry, but I have NO "handlers", I don't drink beer, and I have NOT been "outed", whatever you mean by that. LOL
251 posted on 03/04/2006 10:11:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Thorin

protectionist policies are not beneficial for the working class.


252 posted on 03/04/2006 10:22:58 PM PST by mojojockey
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To: nopardons
...where I said that I "live in a mansion"? :-)

Uhhh, I don't know....duhhhh. Perhaps when you said that you have a maid and platoon of "english speaking" gardeners....you dug your own hole, and frankly I call BS...

You want to pretend you have money, no prob.....but at least have some understanding of the realities, mexican gardeners are a dime a dozen, and the good ones speak English. White gardeners usually come with a resume and you get to pay for their travel from Europe......then you get to pay them real money, and it isn't $4.00 an hour.

253 posted on 03/04/2006 10:23:37 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: nopardons

I'm off, big thunderstorms. We'll argue later. Regards.


254 posted on 03/04/2006 10:26:39 PM PST by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: ScreamingFist
Actually, I have a housekeeper, but I was replying to someone other than YOU, who told me that I should move to Mexico, so that I could have "a maid and servants."

And I said that my gardeners are white, American, and speak English, because they do. If I hadn't said that, I would have immediately been accused of hiring illegals. LOL

I dug nothing; OTOH, you have, long ago, shown exactly what and who you are.

255 posted on 03/04/2006 10:53:18 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ScreamingFist
Ummmmmmmm...why would I have to pay for "travel expenses from EUROPE", of all places? I said that my gardeners are AMERICANS! So is my housekeeper. All of them not only born here, but whose families have been Americans for many generations.

Americans don't speak English, only the English speak ENGLISH"?

Gee, Canadians speak ENGLISH; so do Australians and New Zelanders and the Irish and even most South Africans.

Is that what you pay the boy who mows your lawn? LOL

Look, you and I both know that you aren't being series; you just want a flame war, you really don't care about any of this at all.

256 posted on 03/04/2006 11:00:44 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ScreamingFist

Nope, YOU will hurl insults and irrelevancies; that's all you ever do.


257 posted on 03/04/2006 11:01:29 PM PST by nopardons
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To: mojojockey
protectionist policies are not beneficial for the working class.

Nah, but it sure makes them feeeel better. It's all about 'feelings', don'cha know?

258 posted on 03/04/2006 11:02:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: MNJohnnie; ctdonath2
The first 13 posters and a few after that are the regular bash-Bush crowd. I can see your irritation with them. They are ignorant of economic principles and facts. It seems they, like the Democrats, have a get together and decide on what they are going to post and do. They have their talking points and they act in concert.

You point out some of the solution but ctdonath2 expands upon it.

We don't need isolationism, we need to eliminate socialism.

Take a look at what percentage of one's income goes to taxes. Then look at the minimum wage laws, and other financial losses most companies must incur by law just to stay in business. On top of that add unions which mostly just demand more pay for less work. Result is: the cost of doing business in the USA is so high it's cheaper to send it elsewhere.

Unfortunately, socialism is getting so ingrained, and is so complex, that it's far easier to call for isolationism - which is just another form of socialism.

Don't just call isolationists ignoramuses, explain why socialism is the problem and why isolationism is just protecting/reinforcing socialism.

The thread could have easily ended there but many of differing opinbions and varying levels of economic and political sense joined in and decided to fight.

I joined the thread late and read it all before responding. I know MNjohnnie's opinions so I felt a need to lend support.

259 posted on 03/04/2006 11:10:52 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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To: Logophile
One more thing. Politicians should have no say about where companies hire their engineers. Politicians do not have a good track record when it comes to managing the economy. We would all be better off if governments were limited to their constitutionally specified functions.

Absolutely. Trade is done between individuals and companies, not countries. Governments can set up the legal processes and procedures and they can either facilitate or interfere, but they don't trade.

260 posted on 03/04/2006 11:14:40 PM PST by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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