Romney Adviser Hits Back On Bain Offshoring: Obama Is ‘Outsourcing’ Jobs To Nebraska!

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Romney Adviser Hits Back On Bain Offshoring: Obama Is ‘Outsourcing’ Jobs To Nebraska!
By Igor Volsky posted from ThinkProgress Economy on Jun 24, 2012 at 11:03 am

Mitt Romney’s campaign is responding to evidence that Bain Capital invested in companies that sent American jobs overseas by accusing the Obama administration of “outsourcing” telemarketing jobs to Omaha, Nebraska.

During an appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Romney adviser Ed Gillespie continued the campaign’s dubious strategy of schooling reporters on the difference between “outsourcing” and “offshoring” jobs, insisting that a Washington Post investigation — which found that Romney’s company “invested in a series of firms that specialized in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China and India” — misunderstood the complicated business jargon.

Gillespie said that he was “not aware” if companies tied to Bain shipped jobs overseas, before adding, “what happened in the story as near I can tell is that the reporter confused the notion of outsourcing.” “Now a lot of American companies outsource, they outsource domestically,” he said, noting that the Obama campaign outsources jobs to Nebraska and CNN contracts out video editing projects.



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[liberal N proud]

1. Nebraska?

They don't even know that Nebraska is part of the United States and they want to run the country?

[appal_jack]

19. Ed Gillespie is a tool. N/T

[PatrynXX]

25. oh sure Obama just picks red states to outsource to

or does Ed know Nebraska is mostly red. except well Omaha. Politics aside, the people in Nebraska aren't that bad..

[liberal N proud]

27. I was thinking about that - Neb. being traditonally red.

Romney doesn't even know they are part of the electorate, yet the majority in the state will support him.

An ad should be run in the Omaha World Herald reminding hem of their status.

[James48]

2. This offer good everywhere....

except in Nebraska.

[rateyes]

3. Sounds Clintonesque with his semantics...

depends on what the definition of "outsourcing" is. "Outsourcing" or "offshoring" either way, RMoney screwed the USA workers.

[Voice for Peace]

11. exactly.

It will be enough of a response for a dumb person who wants
to believe in Romney.

But I hope they'll keep clarifying exactly what Bain is all
about and who has benefited.

[Swede Atlanta]

29. Well outsourcing is different than off-shoring to a certain extent.......

Outsourcing, absent a union contract, is a decision by one company to simply have another company some service or perform some task on their behalf. Companies could just have laid employees off and outsourced that work. That is common where the task/activity is very focused and may not require full-time, permanent employees.

Obviously in an environment where there is a union, the contract should prohibit outsourcing but many companies do it anyway and it ends up in a labor dispute.

But at a minimum with outsourcing, the jobs stay in America and, in some cases, create good-paying jobs. My company outsources certain project management work and the project managers for the contractor make about 25% more than our in-house contractors.

Off-shoring is the danger where jobs that could be performed either within the company or outsourced to other American workers are done in another country. This is where Bain was the expert, the pioneers. Obama needs to hammer this home over and over again.

This is especially important among blue-collar white communities in the rustbelt. They were strong supporters of Hillary but mostly came along to Obama in 2008. Polling suggests support is weak in 2012. These facts need to be driven home to this audience. Obama did not offshore your jobs to India, China, South Korea, etc. but Mittens RMoney did (in addition to torturing his dog Seamus).

[AlbertCat]

4. Y'see, Babe, it's too complicated for you to understand.

It's so intricate that you need an expert to explain this grown up stuff, Honey Lamb. No one outside of the loop could possibly understand. We are essential to run this stuff for you know-nothings.

Like derivatives!

TRUST US.




Like Laurie Anderson says... "Only an expert can deal with the problem..."

[marble falls]

13. Thanks! I just bought it and a couple other tracks. After listening to it here three times.

After listening to it three times.

[annabanana]

17. ^^^ What YOU said ^^^. . +1. . . . .n/t

[Enrique]

5. Gillespie is lying

he knows it's about offshoring, not domestic outsourcing.

[marble falls]

6. AND he kept a straight face the entire time ..... its really all about Geography: .....

Nebraska, the Caymans, China, Hawaii, Kenya.

[madashelltoo]

7. Did he really say, "Nebraska?"

There are stupid people all around the world right now saying, "Don't give him our tag. Even stupid has boundaries." Nebraska? What the hell?

[perdita9]

8. First Hawaii isn't a state, now Nebraska isn't either?

Politics gets weirder all the time.

[emulatorloo]

9. How stupid do they think we are?

[lunasun]

30. Oh they are very stupid and now they been given their

talking points on the Bain outsourcing overseas argument "hey - Obama does it too-he sent jobs to Nebraska"

It makes sense to the sheepies even if they live in Nebraska I bet

Base is very stupid and proud of it too don't forget - =no elites

[Autumn]

10. Ya know, that boy is just too fucking stupid to breathe.

And there ain't no cure for that. When you stop and think about it, the fact that he is actually a Presidential contender sickens me more than anything. This country is beyond help.

[KakistocracyHater]

12. I think they're just playing to their idiot base

not anyone else

[BeyondGeography]

14. Wow...whatever happened to Nebraska?

[DallasNE]

15. Ed Gillespie Is Conflating Contracting With Outsourcing

Contracting has been around for a long, long time. Offshoring is something done to avoid taxes and is done in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands or on board ships anchored in international waters. Outsourcing can be either contracting with other companies to perform the work or the moving of the plant overseas. It can even involve offshoring. The most common outsourcing is moving production overseas and companies like Apple are a prime example of that where most of their production is done in China. Automakers contract with suppliers for many of their parts. Under Gillespie's definition this would be outsourcing. This type of work has been going on much longer than the term outsourcing has been around so that means that outsourcing is a different animal than contracting. Did CNN give any pushback to this outlandish attempt to conflate contracting with outsourcing?

[tanyev]

16. And that's bad....why, exactly, Ed?

[onehandle]

18. Weak. nt

[Iliyah]

20. Remember the movie "Idiocracy"?

Where two people went into an hibernation program regarding a governmental top secret project and were forgotten about. After 500 years they were awaken and after awhile realized how dumbed-down the American people were to the extent of plain stupidity.

Well folks, looks like the GOP group of folks are headed in that direction.

We know that the GOPs don't think Hawaii is part of the US since Pres O was born there, now add Nebraska

Thats fucking sad.

[NewJeffCT]

21. "Nebraska - isn't that one of those former Russian states?"

[LynneSin]

22. God forbid we actually *gasp* hired NEBRASKANS for jobs?

[high density]

23. I find it hard to believe the WaPo would publish an article

where the two initial, core sentences of the story are completely incorrect. Ed Gillespie lying, however, would be very easy to believe.

[wordpix]

24. bwahahaha, outsourcing to Nebraska! Wow, whatta stretch! Calling Jon Stewart to make sense of this

one

[Mz Pip]

26. Pretty soon they'll be saying

Obama was born in Nebraska.

[Samantha]

28. Nebraska is a battleground state so thanks, Mitt, for promoting Obama's candidacy there

I am hoping Nebraskans are made aware of the assistance our Democratic President is giving them in the jobs arena, and thanks to Mitt, they just became better informed.


"Nebraska

This is a solid Republican state that has leaned more Republican in presidential races over the last half-century than any other state but Utah. Yet Nebraska can divide electoral votes by Congressional district. Four years ago, President Obama carried the state’s second Congressional District – Omaha and the surrounding area – and collected a single electoral vote. A competitive Senate race could help drive up Democratic turnout again, but Republicans are less likely to be taken by surprise."

at http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/electoral-map


Sam

[Smilo]

31. He didn't say Nebraska was another country.......

what he was trying to do was use the word "outsource" with the word domestic and then tie in with Obama and Nebraska. He failed.

He came across as disingenuous and stupid. But sadly as we know this will play of Fox and the foxtards will say to themselves "see outsourcing it's only like send jobs to Nebraska.

[Suji to Seoul]

32. This is all they have? If they are this desperate now, wait until September.

They may accuse Obama of drinking the blood of unbaptized babies in front of a witch's pyre made of sulfur and brimstone.