Beasley attacks DeMint on trade

The State ^ | Sunday, June 20, 2004 | JENNIFER TALHELM

[Willie Green]

David Beasley wants S.C. voters headed to the polls Tuesday to think about the tired eyes of workers like Angie Painter, a 26-year-old new mother from Union County, where the jobless rate is 14 percent.

U.S. Rep. Jim DeMint — Beasley´s opponent in the Republican U.S. Senate runoff — has to answer for the shuttered mills and unemployed workers in Union and around the state, the former governor says.

DeMint has supported free trade policies in Congress that Beasley says allow cheap foreign clothes, toys and electronics to crowd out American-made goods. Such policies have cost the state 50,000 textile jobs since 1997.

[Willie Green]

SurveyUSA: Beasley, Demint deadlocked in SC GOP Runoff

Go Beasley Go!!!

[lelio]

Go Beasley Go!!!

Angie should stop her whinin as she's now freed up to pursue her dreams. Ah, the ideas of those born into money are easy to adopt.

Also perhaps Angie should listen to Bush's latest campaign ad saying that the economy's been growing for the past 10 months (wacky BLS birth and death rates notwithstanding). What she needs to believe in is a slogan, not reality.

[lelio]

From the article:

Many economists back up DeMint.
...
University of North Carolina business professor Robert Connolly "That wonderful BMW plant -- that isn't going to be there if the protectionists have their way,"

Huh? I must of missed that. Please professor explain that one to me.

[steplock]

Why is it 14% unemployment?

Look at the county! What else could you expect.

"Union County, where the jobless rate is 14 percent"

[SC Swamp Fox]

SC Ping

FReepmail me if you want on or off this list.

[Salo]

You can have the Sleaze for *your* senator, thank you very much.

[visualops]

"Exported" jobs work both ways.
Fact is, there are many "foreign" companies that employ Americans, both here and around the globe.
Additionally, many products are manufactured in one or more countries and assembled in others.
Some products, including textiles, may be woven and/or assembled in one country, and have "value added" in the U.S. and then sold here.
An estimated 3.9 million U.S. citizens living overseas voted in 2000. That's just the number that voted. So even though some jobs are "exported", we also "export" workers, and "import" jobs.

[LowCountryJoe]

No way, these are blatant lies that you spread. While trade causes unnecessary competition and reduces prices/increases quality, it does this at a heavy cost. The job picture becomes unstable and sometimes - especially during cost cutting periods - this puts downward pressure on wages and in some cases leads to unemployment. Dislocated workers have got to stay sharp, skilled, and in demand or they are left out completely in the cold. It is simply not fair to ask someone in their peak earning years - too stubborn to change - to have to get retrained and enter the work force into a new endeavor.

That's why we need to condemn individuals and politicians who advocate such a ruthless and vicious economic policy. We need politicians that will stand up for the worker and create state government positions like the Bureau of Job Protection. That's why, more than ever, we need a 'conservative' in the US Senate, we need David Beasley.

Hello, I'm LowCountryJoe and even though I'm not David Beasley, he probably would have approved this message.

[4everontheRight]

I am voting for DeMint, proudly doing so!
Beasley reminds me too much of Clinton, can't decide what lie to tell next. Did he run the mile in under one minute or was that under one hour??
Although I favor DeMint greatly, I just hope Inez doesn't get elected. I don't think Beasley can beat her.

[Clintonfatigued]

It's true that David Beasley has made mistakes and is far from perfect. But he's a better candidate than Jim DeMint. DeMint is a globalist corporate lackey and empty suit who would probably lose the general election. He has zero appeal in the rural areas, which are a key voting block. By contrast, Beasley has a history of running ahead of party lines in rural areas.