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.
"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.
Understatement of the decade......
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.
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.
The government is supposed to protect individual rights, not sacrifice individuals for an anti-American trade policy.
No, this is REALITY. Take some basic Econ and learn the FACTS, not just regurgiate the nonsense Mike Savage and Pat Buchanan scream at you.
Isn't it US middle class fighting in Iraq?? Bush, I hope your "outsource" ideas are lies too! Govern with hypocrisy, "say one thing, do another". Hope US gets more
men, equipment and money from India for war against Terror
to even up the effort.
I agree with Bush. We cannot wall off our economy any longer. It's a new world. Compete or fall by the wayside. It's harsh but it's the reality.
This should win us lots of votes. /sarcasm on/
That's right. CLING to your ignorance. Maybe it is this fudemental inability to evolve that explains why the Whine All The Time Choir is in such a panic to avoid "Outsourcing" (Aka EXTICTION). It's Called Capitalism. Learn to live with it. It only works better then every other economic system every tried by man.
It's a very confusing issue and I don't pretend to know what the answer is. Many conservative economists (from American Enterprise Institute, to cite one) claim that outsourcing is a painful but (in the long run) beneficial and inevitable consequence of a globalized economy. Look at the auto business. Ford owns Volvo, Jaguar, Kia, etc. and the 60,000 parts of a car come from all over the globe. What the hell does "American car" mean? When Sam Walton started Wal Mart he proudly had a policy of "made in the USA" but now it's hard to find anything that's made here and not in China. The highest protectionist tariff this country ever had was Smoot-Hawley under Herbert Hoover and everyone agrees it deepened the depression. We get directory assistance on our phones and discover we're talking to someone in India to get a neighbour's number! On the other hand, free markets are not a level playing field. Our products are not permitted markets in many countries. At the same time many foreign markets "dump" products in the USA (some made by a labor force that's paid about 90 cents per hour) to get a foothold in our economy. The question seems to be not if all this is right but whether it's inevitable in the 21st century globalized economy (?) Who knows?
Globalism is as it implies- The end of America. Now we can actually see the writting on the wall. That is for those who are willing to see.
The US government doesn't owe you a job. I was in IT for over twenty years and after several layoffs I went back to school. I now have a new career in the medical field and love it. If I can do it, anyone can. Or y'all can sit around and whine and cry about how the world isn't fair. Jeez, I thought only liberals whined about the government owing them something.
Nonsense. I have asked you nicely to take this out to Freeper Mail. You seem bound and determine to get earn a ZOT.
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Yep so called "free trade" by the new world order elite is going to put us all in the poorhouse.
Saw all of the former factories -- that once employed people -- that are now warehouses for imported stuff, or "loft" apartments, or abandoned, or turned into offices for the goofy sorts of service businesses that people try to make a go of, film editing, printing, odds-and-ends stuff (God only knows what sorts of vices).
The moral of the story is that Unionized America cannot compete with Slave-labor China (and its slave-labor nations).