The thread specificly addressed the issue of domestic job creation.
I expressed my opinion on the issue, backed up with links to articles that supported my position.
As a conservative, there is absolutely no way on God's Green Earth that I would ever support Kerry or any other Democrat for the presidency.
But I also think it extremely sad that the Administration's policies are so pathetic and indefensible that you have to resort to a lame rebuttle about "Democrat talking point propaganda turds".
What it boils down to is that neither Kerry nor Bush have viable policies to stimulate domestic business, industries and resultant domestic job creation.
Sad that you think it requires them, Congress, and policies to do the job of the free market for itself.
The only viable program for government is to get out of the damn way, stop regulating business to death, stop forcing high costs on operations through taxation, minimum wages, unemployement insurance, ridiculous workman's comp laws etc., and stop frivolous lawsuits that are more designed for social change and not justice.
You sound no different than a typical cherry picker...pick this industry over that industry. Protect steel workers? Sounds good until companies that use steel go out of business. Protect sugar manufactures? Why not? Who cares if 20,000 candy making jobs go to Canada, not because of high labor costs imposed by government regulation, but high sugar costs!
Also, the vast majority of manufacturing jobs across the country are not the $20-50 an hour, unionized jobs for life you love...they are basically $10-12 an hour routine jobs putting gromments in holes. But you are willing to have "policies" to "protect" those jobs for some reason while at the same time saying every $10-12 an hour job at Wal-Mart is fueling the sixth level of hell.
You have no economic perspective. But at least you wouldn't vote for Kerry. Too bad the vast majority of those wonderful, unionized mid-manufacturing job workers will in key states like Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
While the happy, non-union employees of the Nissan and Mercedes plants in the South vote for Bush. Look at the demographics...that old Midwestern manufacturing, heavily unionized, Eastern European decendant worker is dying out and fading away.
That's one reason Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York lost representation (and electoral votes) in the 2000 census.
You want government policies but like to ignore the damage of collective bargaining and union BS in caring only about an increasing wage with no regards for increasing productivity or efficiency. It's almost like tenure when you can't fire an incompetent factory worker.
And Buchanan or whichever third party loon du jour does?