Posted on 11/01/2004 6:48:31 PM PST by MissBaby
The Scourge of Outsourcing
There is no more a clear cut case of John Kerry's contradictions between his campaign utterances and his record as a U.S. senator than his pronouncements on outsourcing. Since August, GoGov.com has detailed Kerry's deep involvement in outsourcing of U.S. jobs to China through his association with Paul Marcus and Boston Capital & Technology. This story (detailed here) is one of direct involvement by Kerry in the set up of U.S. manufacturing in and the export of U.S. jobs to China.
Many supporters of Kerry have been taken in by the deception of Kerry's words on the campaign trail with complete oblivion to Kerry's past record on outsourcing. Among them is Anthony Wade, OpEdNews.com who recently opined that Kerry is the answer to the scourge of outsourcing. Wade writes:
....Jobs – George Bush ... will do nothing to address the rampant outsourcing that is weakening this country and nothing to help create better jobs. We are losing quality jobs and replacing them with McJobs. When asked about what he would do during the debates about creating jobs, he only talked about No Child Left Behind. He has no answer.
....John Kerry thinks we can do better than that. His plan includes closing tax loopholes that reward companies for outsourcing American jobs and create tax incentives for those companies which create jobs in this country. That makes sense.
....There is a clear choice here. Do we want more empty promises of job creation while the richest are laughing all the way to the bank or do we want common sense sacrifice from the most well off, with concrete plans to stop the scourge of outsourcing? (emphasis ours).
With only a little digging, Mr. Wade will find that Kerry led the outsourcing charge with Paul Marcus, a neighbor of Kerry in the Beacon Hill district of Boston, and the company owned by Marcus, Boston Capital & Technology. In the link provided above, you can see the full detail of Boston Capital & Technology's outsourcing scope. Briefly, Boston Capital & Technology specializes in helping U.S. companies set up operations in China with projects including advanced tool and die works and computer assisted manufacturing. So much was Kerry involved in the efforts of Boston Capital & Technology that Kerry actually led one of Boston Capital & Technology's outsourcing trade missions to China in the late 1990's. This involvement was detailed on the website of Boston Capital & Technology that has since been removed but is preserved here.
Supporting a candidate is one thing. Blindly touting something about that candidate that is far removed from the truth is quite another. The only excuse can be the main media's near complete ignoring of Kerry's record. We would think, though, that if someone like Wade were going to go to such lengths to detail his praises of John Kerry that he would at least take a moment to get it right.
On the subject of Kerry and outsourcing, getting it right is this. Boston Capital & Technology not only helped U.S. companies (70 companies in all) set up in China, it did it with the support of an influential senator from Massachusetts. Other companies in the same line of work as Boston Capital & Technology (there are others that help U.S. companies move to China) can only dream of such a U.S. political connection and the advantage it provided Marcus and Boston Capital & Technology. While other companies facilitating outsourcing do it with only their traditional business connections, Boston Capital & Technology did with with the help and influence of Kerry.
For those whose jobs have been lost through this outsourcing trade, it is a financially and emotionally painful experience. It is easy, then, to react favorably to a candidate that says he will do something about it. But in places like Xenia, Ohio where Kerry gave a speech on outsourcing and Mercer County, Pennsylvania hit hard by the loss of outsourced jobs, those people need to know that where they have seen pain and job loss, others see profits in facilitating the loss of U.S. jobs.
In those places and many other towns across America, unemployed workers would drool at the prospect of the jobs created by just one of the thousands of new factories set up in China during the 1990's. Those workers should know that Kerry himself himself worked to set up those overseas U.S. factories.
There is much talk of Kerry flip flops. But on the subject of outsourcing and Kerry's pronouncements about it, there is much more than a flip and a flop. For the U.S. workers that have lost their jobs to outsourcing, it was a thud and a crash that Kerry foisted upon U.S. workers, the very workers he and his supporters now say Kerry will look after. Outsourcing is, as Mr. Wade says, a scourge. But what he and other Kerry supporters miss is this: the scourge of outsourcing is Kerry.
from the article "There is much talk of Kerry flip flops. But on the subject of outsourcing and Kerry's pronouncements about it, there is much more than a flip and a flop. For the U.S. workers that have lost their jobs to outsourcing, it was a thud and a crash that Kerry foisted upon U.S. workers, the very workers he and his supporters now say Kerry will look after. Outsourcing is, as Mr. Wade says, a scourge. But what he and other Kerry supporters miss is this: the scourge of outsourcing is Kerry." (sorry if my formating was not perfect)
I hope Kerry outsources himself. Any chance he loses his senate seat any time soon?
Erskine Bowles (candidate for Senate-NC), is a huge player in the Chinagate scams. They're "partners in crime".
Yep. As I keep saying, both sides have sold us out. Both. It's inexcusable that they'd betray us to keep power.
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