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"George Bush hasn't just looked the other way as U.S. jobs have gone overseas, he's actually helping to send them there. Clearly, this president just doesn't understand that we should be exporting products, not jobs. When John Kerry is in the White House, we're going to have a president who is going to work to keep American jobs in America."Well, Phil, I wouldn't be so sure about that whole "American jobs in America" bit. Your guy is planning on sending you and your pal Chad off with reporters throughout the world at the command of the United Nations so you can make balloon animals.
-- Phil Singer, Kerry/Edwards
Seriously, I'll point out, again, the stupidity of getting all hysterical about outsourcing. Here is FactCheck.org:
Labor Department data underscore what even Democratic economists have said for some time -- outsourcing jobs overseas, or "offshoring," accounts for just a small fraction of the many millions of jobs that are lost each year even in a good economy.Only 2.5% of major layoffs in the first quarter of 2004 in the entire nation was a result of outsourcing.
There is indeed a tax break for US-based multinational corporations to locate operations overseas. Bush isn't to blame for it -- it's been there for decades. It's also true that Bush doesn't support Kerry's proposed remedy, which is controversial.
But even backers of the Kerry plan concede that eliminating the tax break won't end the offshoring of some US jobs. Multinational businesses build plants in other countries to take advantage of lower wages and to be near their global customers, too, not just for tax reasons.
Phil, get back to blowing up the balloons, buddy...
