[Lazamataz]

No new news except now the major outlets are starting to run with it.

I think Bush will "get it" now.

[RockyMtnMan]

This is definately a political land mine and the Republicans had better get their game plan together. This issue has the power to sway public opinion more than any other. This about middle America's pocket book now and the threat of losing a job to offshoring will make everyone question their job security.

[RockyMtnMan]

I also noticed they are doing a week long special on this very issue. Since ABC is a big-time left leaning outlet I'll be curious to see how they "spin" it.

[RLK]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

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What you will hear from Bush is some meaningless evasive generalities.

[LibertyAndJusticeForAll]

As already pointed-out, nothing new, but major news outlet ping.

[MrNatural]

I remember the discussion you and Nick had the other day about the effect of corporations being able to shift work around the world and deploy automation, forcing the return on labor
(wages, salaries) to a minimum. Nick's idea was that if the trend continues, the return on capital will increase correspondingly and even the US ultimately becomes a country with
a small super-rich elite and a huge underclass just hanging on.

The danger of a socialist populist political movement to 'correct the social injustice' under those circumstances seems real enough, but how far in that direction can things go;
how can increasingly poor people be customers for the factory-owners products? Isn't it in the capitalists interest to have customers able to buy what's being produced?

Or are we tipping over into a 'tragedy of the commons' scenario with no one able to stop the destruction?

Is what's happening in the world economically the same thing happening in much of Africa physically: the exploitation of the weak by the strong?

[VadeRetro]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

Stop worrying about Bush II being the next Bush I. Start worrying about him being the next Herbert Hoover.

[jpl]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

I don't think so, based on what I've heard from him on this subject so far. I don't know what it is with the Bushes, there seems to be something genetic in the family that makes them completely oblivious to people experiencing economic and social upheaval. It may just be a natural outgrowth of growing up in the priviliged country-club set.

[Mini-14]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

I doubt it, I think that President Bush has a tin ear.

[montag813]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

What on earth makes you think Bush has a problem with this? He is a Harvard MBA and a globalist. His Yale and Harvard classmates are at the apex of American industry, driving this very exodus.

[gathersnomoss]

I think Bush will "get it" now.

I doubt it.