TONE DEAF - George Bush & Thomas Friedman on outsourcing

[Stephanie]

The repubs are absolutely TONE DEAF. They have no clue how upset Americans are about offshoring and the unemployment rate. This issue is going to kill them. They just don't get it.

Try to catch Friedman on the Newshour tonight. It's a lighthearted look at Bangalore, as Indian students learn American accents so they can take over American call center jobs. It's a laugh riot!

And here is Bush today:

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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullS...

President George W. Bush hit back at Democratic critics of his administration's job-creation efforts on Tuesday, branding them as "economic isolationists" who would raise new trade barriers and damage the US economy.

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Mark my words - this is the issue that's going to kill them. Because they just don't give a damn about working people, and they don't care who knows it.

[Bullshot]

1. That's a typical reaction from conservatives...

Any time you discuss trade with them and tell them about the fundamental flaws in NAFTA, the WTO and any other free trade agreement the U.S. is involved in, right away they argue that you are an isolationist and if it were up to you, you'd build a wall around the U.S. and not allow trade of any kind to take place.

The concept of a NAFTA or the WTO are OK, but they are not what their supporters claim. Using these idiots' logic, I guess if you take a rusted out Vega and tell them it's a spankin' new Lincoln, they will pay you a Lincoln price for the Vega, because that's what you labeled it.

Same thing with Bush and his warmongering policy. You try to explain that things could have been handled differently to any of his stooges, right away, you're branded as unpatriotic and you don't support your troops.

Typical wingnut logic. They can never debate on the facts and always have to degrade the conversation to some name-calling contest.

[Stephanie]

4. They ridicule what they can't refute

That's their only trick. Once you ask for some facts to back up their assertions, they are sunk.

Welcome to DU, Bullshot! Stick around - it's going to be a bumpy night!

[drthais]

2. guess what?

It's STILL the economy, stupid

[dfong63]

3. they say we're "isolationists" - i say we're "patriots"

... and we have every right to expect OUR elected government to serve OUR best national interests, and to put OUR welfare above the ideology of "free trade", and above the interests of the multinational corps.

[Stephanie]

5. Am I the only one who saw the T. Friedman segment?

It was outrageous.

Especially if you caught Friedman's "joke." Well, MY job can't be outsourced...

Wanna bet, Friedman? You smug little creep.

How does it feel to interfere with world affairs when you're dead wrong but won't admit it? Can you sleep?

[cryofan]

10. Friedman was INCREDIBLY smug, and the host was suitably patronizing

I say we hang all these globalists (after a trial in a court of law, of course).

[Stephanie]

11. certainly they should have a trial first

after all we are democrats

[Mountainman]

6. Working class Americans are waking up to the world according to

conservatives and it means they can no longer expect to achieve the American Dream and their kids will probably be worse off than they are.

I hope we can undo the damage of the last three years. Add the surplus Clinton left and the deficit Bush has created together and that's how far we have gone in the hole in just 3 damn years! Give them four more years and there will be no middle class just the wealthy ruling class and the working poor.

And to any freeper lurkers out there, this means you too! You will not become part of Bush's chosen ones.

[Stephanie]

7. That's the plan - I call it neo-feudalism

And I was just thinking about that - the total number is never discussed.

THAT'S what Kerry needs to talk about - the sum total of <Clinton's Surplus> plus <Bush's Deficit> = that is exactly how much $$ Bush has squandered in three years.

[Mountainman]

8. I also lament all the missed opportunity that happened

I had so much hope that we would use the surplus to make this a better country for all of us and now we see it was used to make wealthy people wealthier and the rest of us worse off. That is the selfishness of conservatism right out there for all to see!

I don't know if we will ever get back to that point again in my lifetime.

[Stephanie]

9. Right - they stuffed it all in their pockets

The good news is - when we have laws and government again, we can arrest them.