Reply #63: Dick Gephardt [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

While he didnt win in Iowa at all (he really should have dropped that total repeal of the Bush tax cuts spiel) He is a figure with considerable drawing power in the heavily unionized mid-west. ANd this time, that is where the battle will be fought. In places like Ohio, which are Republican states, but have lost a lot of manufaccting jobs, and Bush cutting all funds to retrain people who have lost jobs in those industriees for new jobs.

Outsourcing is nothing new, and there is little that can effectively stop it. Even Germany outsources lots of jobs to India and China, it just pays to support people who are without jobs while it provides active retraining of workers, as well as pays for relocating workers to new areas of the country if they wish to do so to get work in new areas.