Posted on 07/18/2005 9:23:06 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
Washington, July 18: President George W. Bush on Monday said US looked forward to building a strong economic relationship with India for economic prosperity and peace.
Welcoming Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur on the lawns of the White House at the beginning of his three-day state visit, Bush said US and India has developed a relationship of great potential and we are looking to expanding our strong relationship for economic development and peace and prosperity.
Bush said the relations between the two countries had never been so strong and referred to the growing cooperation between the two countries.
Lauding the role of hundreds of thousands of Indian Americans for their contribution in development in various spheres and to America’s vitality, he said both the people of India and US were working for peace and stability and both the countries believed in freedom and were confronting global terrorism. India, he said has emerged as an economic power for the betterment of its people through the economic reforms launched in the early 90s. Development and economic progress, growth and prosperity, hope and optimism remained a national strength, he said.
Bush said both the countries shared a common commitment to democracy, freedom and human rights to make a better and safer world.
Thanking the President for the warm welcome, Singh said, “we share common resolve and common responsibility to meet those challenges.”
That silly pinhead sure goes out of his way to undermine the prosperity of the American Middle Class, doesn't he?
ping for another post on India...
"That silly pinhead sure goes out of his way to undermine the prosperity of the American Middle Class, doesn't he?"
This has gotten to be such a sore point with me that words can barely describe it. Why our nation cannot produce high level politicians who have even a passing concern about America's middle class is a mystery. The political system is notoriously corrupt, but it would seem every now and then one person would slip through who doesn't think it's a good idea to offshore American jobs.
>>That silly pinhead sure goes out of his way to undermine the prosperity of the American Middle Class, doesn't he?
Used to be a time when calling Bush a pinhead would get you in trouble on FR.
I can almost taste the kool-aid.
Now that you mention it, the sound of crickets on this thread IS somewhat deafening.
I guess nodoby wants to talk to a crotchety old paleocon who can remember when the GOP was going to disband the Department of Education and return responsibility back to state and local governments. Instead, we got stuck with a bunch of backstabbing Big Government weasles who outsource our jobs and promise that the nanny-state will "retrain" us for something else. What a bunch of pissants.
seems to me our unemployment rate is the lowest in years!
compared to europe at what 8-10%?
get a grip.
Funny to see FR’s token communist who wants an expanded or new bureaucracy to micromanage each citizen’s ability to trade overseas calling pro-capitalist policies “Big Government”.
I’ll take India over Old Europe in a heart-beat. Like us, they understand Islamo-fascism.
GW would do a 180 if he ever had to speak with a customer service rep. from an India call center. LOL. Makes me proud to be an American when I blow 4k on a DELL business system and waste 2-3 hours on the phone trying to understand the rep. on the other side. Michael Dell and GW and kiss my *ss.
I’ll take India over Old Europe in a heart-beat. Like us, they understand Islamo-fascism......ditto
LOL!
Biotech revolution: US backs India
NASA payload may ride India’s moon mission
US Plan to Make India World Power
U.S. Navy Is Removing Life Support For Shipbuilding Industry
LOL!
The really strange thing about that scenario is,
despite their odd accents, their English grammar is usually better than his!
Nothing wrong with India being a very close ally. It makes sense we are both democracies and are a huge trading partner. The real enemy is communist china friend. This PRC forum is Anti-American,Indian, and Japanese, it makes tons of racial slurs, and talks about ways of defeating the US and her allies. These chinese think they are entitled to rule the world and should get special treatment and everyone bow down to them. Its disgusting. I hope for a long prosperous future with the people of India. We have to contain the chinese. They are the greatest threat to all out nuclear war now.
http://www.centurychina.com/plaboard/
Puhleeze. Most of the jobs that go to India - and I say this as somebody who has lost much of my work to India - are jobs that are either marginal to begin with or in the process of transition anyway. Before the call centers went to India, we had prisoners doing that work here, which shows you what a great job it was.
I am a translator, and many translation jobs have gone to India, because agencies decided that it was cheaper to get a very low-rate job into fractured - or at any rate, non-standard - English and then edit it than to pay an American or British translator to do it. However, the field was changing anyway, and a lot of jobs Indians are getting are going to be automated and machine translated before long.
In addition, success has generated rising expectations in India, and their rates for their work are rising, so I suppose the jobs will just move on to the next stop on the global low-price chain.
Personally, I think a strong, prosperous India is all to the good, and I don't think it's hurting us (looking at my local help-wanted pages) at all.
also...
U.S. Navy Is Removing Life Support For Shipbuilding Industry ...
maybe this is part of the reason.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445308/posts
Not really.
In the overall scheme of things, India is just another source of cheap labor to play-off against everybody else.
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