[.cnI redruM]

I'm missing how a bunch of firms in San Francisco deciding to hire people from other countries because they work for lower wages is any US President's fault. There are a large number of variables at work here that are beyond our national government's ability to control.

If you value The Bill of Rights as anything other than a scrap of toilet paper, you don't want the US government to control who this company hires and fires. I've been layed off work and told to hit the f------ turnpike through no fault of my own before. It's not a joy-ride.

Letting it force you to seek a government solution is how government takes away your liberties. Believe me, the North Korean Government could tell Cisco exactly where it's workers would come from. You just don't want to live there.

[thimios]

Just look at the trade deficits that we are running. I guess it’s all right for these firms to call on the American taxpayer to pay to open up new markets for their products all over the world while they layoff American workers.

[lelio]

If you value The Bill of Rights as anything other than a scrap of toilet paper, you don't want the US government to control who this company hires and fires.

But that can be taken to an extreme too. Is it okay to hire slave labor to make your widgets as they are in a foreign country? Who is to tell companies that can't be done but the government? Certainly the market isn't as they'll have the cheapest goods.

What I think is missing is the "promote the general welfare" clause of the Constitution. The government should be working towards increasing the standard of living for all Americans, not just the CEOs that offshore all their work to foreign countries.

[A. Pole]

There are a large number of variables at work here that are beyond our national government's ability to control.

Are you saying that the government is not free to decide when it is abolishing tariffs, making new "free" trade agreements and providing insurance for moving jobs abroad?

If you value The Bill of Rights as anything other than a scrap of toilet paper, you don't want the US government to control who this company hires and fires.

Corporations are persons only in an artificial legal sense. Bill of Rights is for the REAL people.

[Keyes2000mt]

It's not President Bush's fault. This issues go back several administrations with NAFTA and GATT.