That's not the message on this issue and not all outsourcing steals jobs. Companies will often hire locals in foreign countries to obtain resources in those countries, along with US citizens.
The Bush admin should do something about the mass outsourcing. The campaign needs to also point out that the government does not completely control companies, that's socialism. Socialism is of course the goal of this democrat party.
Maybe he should talk to Teresa Heinz Kerry about the 57 varieties of catsup plants employing people in other countries.
The "mass outsourcing" (I question "mass") is really generated by the MASSIVE REGULATION on US businesses by LIBERALS!!!!!
How many in the public have you talked to?! That is exactly the issue and the message. This administration is telling us free trade is good for us while it is costing people middle class incomes in great numbers. I'm handicapped and buried in medical bills and repair bills from two major hospital visits, plumbing and electrical repairs in the last 12 months. And now I'm losing my middle class income in a town of 60k where good jobs are sparse to begin with. I got a good break to get this job after 14 years of dreaming one day I'd get in. Getting hired at Chrysler and Delco locally is done largely on a lottery system because the jobs are so hard to get. And Delco is outsourcing every bit of their operation here. The Delco facility right next to where I work has been taken apart bolt by bolt and shipped to Mexico. My facility is literally being taken apart around me while jobs there go to Mexico. They Go live next monday starting taking calls away from our call center. This ain't politics to me or to anyone else in this town or elsewhere that I've talked to. This is personal. You screw with my taxes and I may pay a little more. Your policies cost me my job and now we aren't talking about paying higher taxes, you've just cost my my ability to function. That is personal. And America sees it in that light.
Bush doesn't seem to get it. Nor do the people making a percentage off it in our party. But the will has to exist in our party to stand up to the crap and demand something be done. WHERE is it. Some of us here fought an uphill battle to the point where the free traders know they're in trouble. But many will only whisper about it for fear of how they might be treated. Either we stand up and reign in the jackasses in our own party, or we risk losing the whitehouse and both houses of congress. Bush doesn't have a Jimmy Carter to blame this on. Reagan did and the blame was aptly laid at Carters feet by right. Bush owns this blame right along with Clinton.
This party isn't about screwing Americans for a percentage. Some people in it are; but, this party isn't. And America will repay the screwing for a percentage in kind. What are you going to do now, Mr. President? That's my question. I'm already screwed. How does the president view the livelihoods of americans who his policies have cost their jobs. This is the precipice. And the clock is ticking.