Lou Dobbs (CNN): Exporting America: false choice

[BlueEyedSon]

I will tell you it does make a fellow think when attacked so energetically and so personally. But in none of the attacks on my position on outsourcing has a single columnist or news organization seen fit to deal with the facts.

Number one: We're not creating jobs in the private sector, and that's never happened before in our history. Our economists and politicians need to be coming up with answers, not dogma.

Number two: We haven't had a trade surplus in this country in more than two decades, and our trade deficit continues to soar.

Number three: We've lost three million jobs in this country over the last three years, and millions more American jobs are at risk of being outsourced to cheap overseas labor markets.

That seems to me, at least, to be more than sufficient evidence for all of us, Republicans and Democrats alike, to question critically the policies of both parties that have led us to this critical juncture in our economy and our history.

More: http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/09/commentary/dobbs/dobbs/index.htm

[BootinUp]

1. I read that transcript a little while ago

I just appreciate any Bush slamming we can get. so heres a :thumbsup: for Dobbs.

[mhr]

2. Mr. Dobbs, Words Of Truth Were Never Better Spoken!

Unemployed 45 months

BSEE,
MBA,
Commercial pilot,
Honorably discharged Naval officer,
Refugee from telecom and aviation,
1,430 resumes out the door,
Have not heard form a company or headhunter in two years.

This is a real problem that the republicans have ignored.

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[boobooday]

3. Wow, Mr. Dobbs

Good for you, seeing the light!!!!

Keep speaking truth -- we need more!

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Bhaisahab]

11. not so fast.. read this...

One of America's loudest anti-outsourcing voices is speaking with a forked tongue, quietly championing outsourcing as a side dish to main course of being against offshoring of jobs. Louis Dobbs, the well-known CNN anchor, is leading a double life, hunting with the dogs as well as running with the hares.
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For the masses, Dobbs has been running a series, indeed a "nightly crusade" -- called "Exporting America."

The programme decries "outsourcing" or "offshoring" -- that is, US businesses using suppliers in other countries, like programmers in India writing IBM software.

But then there is the other Lou Dobbs, where he is appealing to subscribers to the Lou Dobbs Money Letter, a "private and confidential market report," where he carries a different tune entirely.


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/532856.cms

[xang-chi]

5. Seldom do I agree with lou

I totaly agree with lou here. Just look at the trade deficit. You don't have to be a mathmatician to see that more money leaving the country than is coming in is bad. Think of this county as a busness, Bush our CEO should have already been fired for not turning a profit. I do know that we have been running a trade deficit through many administrations, not just Bush's.

[BlueEyedSon]

6. kick

:kick:

[eridani]

7. He's channelling Dennis Kucinich

And if Kerry wants to win, he'd damned well better do likewise.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=3D110004778

Not too long ago, the people who watch Lou Dobbs's evening business program on CNN tuned into see someone who looked just like Lou Dobbs ranting about free trade and corporations that outsource jobs--"Exporting America," he calls it. This didn't compute. The Lou Dobbs everyone thought they knew was a font of economic reason.
Every night of the week now, no matter how big or small the rest of the day's news, the Lou nobody knew finds time to kvetch about outsourcing, "cheap overseas labor" and about a Nafta free-trade agreement that flung open the door to "illegal aliens" whom he's happy to routinely identify as "Mexicans." >

He's got a Web site that lists "more than 350 corporations we've confirmed are exporting America." He reads letters from viewers who wonder "why are we importing beef." The new Lou mocks Adam Smith and David Ricardo--"economists who lived 200 years ago." He invites in liberal Democrats, such as Senators Hillary Clinton and Max Baucus, to share ideas on a "plan" to keep America's jobs "at home."

Old admirers are aghast. It's as if whatever made Linda Blair's head spin around in "The Exorcist" had invaded the body of Lou Dobbs and left him with the brain of Dennis Kucinich. No public figure has moved so far left so fast since the transfiguration of Arianna Huffington. So who is this wild and crazy guy in the dark suit, white shirt and dark tie and where did he come from? Since Lou Dobbs is on television, I can't answer who he is, but I think I know where he's coming from.

[bpilgrim]

8. i hope he doesn't get 'outsourced'

the nail that sticks UP gets HAMMERED down - Japanese proverb


screw that ;->

peace

[dw]

9. Wait just a minute...

"That seems to me, at least, to be more than sufficient evidence for all of us, Republicans and Democrats alike, to question critically the policies of both parties that have led us to this critical juncture in our economy and our history."

"both parties"???

Which party owns the White House, the Supreme Court and both Houses of Congress, Mister Dobbs???

There's only one party that's had any say in the matter at all. The MO of this misAdministration from Day 1 has been, "I don't care what you think."

Lou, it's time you took your beating like a man, just like all the rest of them.

[screembloodymurder]

10. Yes but

the Dems should be jumping all over this issue. When Bush tells the audience that Kerry is a protectionist, Kerry should say: Yes, I'm for exporting products not jobs. In fact, that's a pretty good bumper sticker......Export products not jobs: Vote for Kerry