Posted on 03/13/2006 10:30:20 PM PST by Cedar
It is estimated that the combination of illegals and outsourcing brings down the average wage of American workers by more than 10% and virtually stops wage growth. This is good for business and keeps inflation down - for now! The fact that the middle class is being destroyed and the social fabric of the nation is being strained is not important to the Treasury or the FED.
The Christian Right is getting it !!! The money quote.
That picture just killed my buzz.
Yes, but when you disengage with another country then you have no leverage over that country. My point is that it's a more complex situation than the writer thinks.
Christianity isn't banned in the UAE.
HERE is what the Port Deal was about you silly people.
Was it not just the sweetest little Influence for Hire scam.
Eller & Co , run by fat cat Democrat Donors, got beat out for the P&O deal by Dubai Port World. They hired a big shot lawyer and filed a lawsuit. They knew the Lawsuit was crap so they scurried up to Capitol Hill to cry for help. The Unions also hated the deal cause they knew in new Union Negotiations with the new company they were going to get seriously squeezed by demands of labor saving technological improvements. Chucky Schumer, head of the Democrat Senate Election Committee, took the lobbying info and ran with it. It allowed him to do a number of things. It allows Democrats to nuke their "weak on National Security" PR vulnerability. It gets him a big wet sloppy kiss from the unions in terms of money and foot solider for the Senate campaigns. It gets him big dollars from the Port Terminal companies, it drives a wedge into the Republican base, and best of all he got Know Nothing Talking Heads like Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Laura Ingraham etc. to do the PR dirty work for him.
The best thing is he can walk away a big winner now, OR he can go to stage two and lobby that the ports be "nationalized" like they did with the Airline Screeners. The Congresscowards, their usual gutless selves, simply looked at the polls and panicked. NEVER even thought that they should stand by the President and fight for the truth. They simply panicked and rolled over for the Dem's AGAIN.
No national security implications, no nonsense about "turning our ports over to Arabs" simply a business deal where the losers went to Congress to buy the influence to reverse the deal. The same Americans running the port terminals now would of been running them after the deal for Dubai Port World. The name on the outside of the terminal and the name on the paycheck given to the American terminal workers would have change and that is about it.
Simply amazing that the same people who whine endlessly about "Bush big spending" and "Big Govt Republicans" now have seen to it that there will be an expansion in the cost, scope and reach of the Federal Govt over the Private Sector. That's the REALITY which the Whine All The Time Choir just screamed down rather then admit the knee jerk nature of their "I'm mad at Bush" hissy fit about the Terminal Deal.
But that right. Don't try to actually learn the facts. Just scream "Koolaid drinker" or "Bush bot" and cling your rabid ignorance.
Great post. Thanks for the ping.
Yeah, he's controlling GWB with his joystick again. Probably from that same undisclosed location he takes the liberals he invites bird hunting.
Unlikely, since the muslims are killing Christians around the world in record numbers.
Ops4 God Bless America!
Unlikely, since the muslims are killing Christians around the world in record numbers.
Ops4 God Bless America!
It's like that in most of the ME, USE is no different. They are more free than other countries though.
DPW doesn't own the port terminal leases. They brought P&Q and P&Q owns the leases. When Congress raised its fit DPW just made P&Q a subsidiary of DPW instead of changing the name P&Q to DPW. That way no port terminal leases have changed hands. DPW owns P&Q and has no plans to sell P&Q. P&Q owns the port terminal leases and has no plan to sell the leases. P&Q does not require a security check, they have been doing business in American pots since the 1600's.
The US has a 700 million dollar trade surplus with UAE, not a deficient.
The Democrat plan did not work to steal the operation of port terminal leases. DPW simple made P&Q a subsituary of DPW and no leases exchanged hands. P&Q still owns the leases. A security check is not required. DP has no plans to sell P&Q. Congress took a big one.
Bitter, party of one, your table is ready. You lost. Again.
You are correct. UAE is NOT giving up, or selling our portion of this company.
It's all a lie, from what I've heard. This is not over...
Really. We've all been had. Just because DPW SAID they would divest, we believed it? *smacking my forehead*
"""From the European point of view the high US-defict is indeed a problem""
You realize dont you that the USA would not have such a large trade deficit if 10% of Europe wasnt chronically unemployed and EuRo zone GDP growth wasnt perenially stuck at 1%
Frankly if the US consumer didnt spend so much money, the global economy would fall into a deep recession.
You are correct I made a mistake.
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