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Bush Axes Southern Jobs and Southern Heritage
DixieNet Gazette ^ | Spring 2003 | Mike Tuggle

Posted on 05/25/2003 6:13:13 AM PDT by mac_truck

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1 posted on 05/25/2003 6:13:14 AM PDT by mac_truck
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An interesting read from a group of disaffected southerners
2 posted on 05/25/2003 6:21:01 AM PDT by mac_truck
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Yes, lets have a state run textile industry. We can all become socialists, power to the workers... NAH!!!
3 posted on 05/25/2003 6:27:20 AM PDT by Camel Joe (Proud Uncle of a Fine Young Marine)
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This is not Bush-bashing, or even Republican-bashing. Both political parties have scoffed at concerns about the impact of Federal trade and immigration policies on native-born Americans. The Republicans welcome the cheap labor, while the Democrats cheer the arrival of more voters as they sneak across the border. As jobs at home are appropriated by imported foreigners, many of them illegal, even more jobs vanish into Mexico, thanks to NAFTA.

Eventually politicians will realize that this one issue will dominate American politics. I would suggest that the Republicans have the majority of people concerned with this issue so they should take the lead now.

4 posted on 05/25/2003 6:28:17 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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Too bad, so sad...

You Sothrons were all pretty gleeful thirty years ago when all those textile mills and jobs left New England for your parts to obtain cheaper labor.

I said then that the cycle would start again and the unions would screw the pooch. (see the movie Norma Rae)

What goes around, come around.

5 posted on 05/25/2003 6:30:29 AM PDT by metesky (My retirement fund is holding steady @ $.05 a can)
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To: mac_truck
Heaven forbid we should allow American individuals the liberty to purchase products from other countries.
6 posted on 05/25/2003 6:34:56 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo
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Agreed. The loss of American jobs to overseas competitors, and the current administrations involvement/reaction in that process, could become a defining issue in 04. Especially if new jobs are not being created.
7 posted on 05/25/2003 6:36:49 AM PDT by mac_truck
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I would suggest that the Republicans have the majority of people concerned with this issue so they should take the lead now.

Perhaps that's one reason the pubs favor a weaker dollar...to make foreign imports (i.e. Chinese Tools) more expensive, and US exports more price competitive.

8 posted on 05/25/2003 6:39:31 AM PDT by sam_paine
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You Sothrons were all pretty gleeful thirty years ago when all those textile mills and jobs left New England for your parts to obtain cheaper labor.

Good point. But at least those jobs stayed in America. There is a certain irony to having a textile export quotas tripled for Vietnam, while 90,000 textile jobs in the south are lost. Makes you wonder what those brave sons fought and died for over there, doesn't it?

9 posted on 05/25/2003 6:45:44 AM PDT by mac_truck
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Southern governors Jim Hodges of South Carolina, Mike Easley of North Carolina, Roy Barnes of Georgia, and Don Siegelman of Alabama appealed to President Bush to help their textile workers, and asked that he meet with them to finally take action against the dumping of foreign textiles in Mexico, which used the NAFTA agreements against us.

How interesting, the author fails to mention that these guys are all Democrats.

10 posted on 05/25/2003 6:46:20 AM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: mac_truck
Sorry but Bush can't tell the companies in how to do run their own business.
11 posted on 05/25/2003 6:54:56 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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The Southern textile industry has closed more than 150 mills and slashed 90,000 jobs since 2001

Free trade and open border immigration is good for America. I'm sure that there are plenty of 7-11s and McDonalds down there to pick up the slack. Remember, we're a "service" economy now.(/sarcasm)

12 posted on 05/25/2003 6:55:10 AM PDT by willowpar
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How interesting, the author fails to mention that these guys are all Democrats.

Its also interesting to note that three of them (Barnes, Hodges, & Siegelman) are no longer governors also.

13 posted on 05/25/2003 7:02:37 AM PDT by mac_truck
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The time has come for America to move beyond LABOR intensive industries like textiles. Our labor resources are far too costly to allow us to compete without manipulation of the market by government. Not to mention the fact that the Unions are a large part of why labor has priced itself out of the market.
14 posted on 05/25/2003 7:05:29 AM PDT by Camel Joe (Proud Uncle of a Fine Young Marine)
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Not to mention the fact that the Unions are a large part of why labor has priced itself out of the market

That is the number one reason why factories are closing and moving overeas.
15 posted on 05/25/2003 7:08:13 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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The weaker dollar may be favored by Republicans but it is also the inevitable result of the current account deficit in our foreign trade,
16 posted on 05/25/2003 7:13:46 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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The time has come for America to move beyond LABOR intensive industries like textiles. Our labor resources are far too costly to allow us to compete without manipulation of the market by government.

I think the author is making the point that politics is playing a role in some of the decisions this administration is making about free-trade. He links the failure of this administration to protect southern textile jobs as a decision predicated in part on the premise that the south is safely in the Republican camp.

The cynical observer would note that the steel industry (in 04 battleground state) Pennsylvainia enjoys protection that the textile industry (in Republican strong holds SC/NC/AL) does not.

17 posted on 05/25/2003 7:21:59 AM PDT by mac_truck
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Yeah it's whole lot better to be supporting jobs in Ho Chi Minh City then Dalton , Georgia isn't it?
18 posted on 05/25/2003 7:34:16 AM PDT by arly
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yeah lets farm all of our jobs overseas... what industry do you work in ?...
19 posted on 05/25/2003 7:35:29 AM PDT by arly
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The time has come for America to move beyond LABOR intensive industries like textiles. Our labor resources are far too costly to allow us to compete without manipulation of the market by government.

Good idea, let's move into the computer industry. Oops -- Americans in the computer industry just got wiped out by the H-1Bs and L-1s.

20 posted on 05/25/2003 7:42:34 AM PDT by Mini-14
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