Posted on 10/20/2004 11:25:55 AM PDT by alchemist54
I have to believe that Senator Kerry understands the middle class and the poor, about as much as he understood the Vietnam War. And cares about them about as much as he did the brave young American soldiers he branded for life with his lies. So what does he have in common with the working man? Has John Kerry ever done manual labor? Has he ever cleaned bathrooms with people of color? Has he ever really considered how the average person really lives? Does he even have a clue?
Senator Kerry stated President Bush is to blame for US companies outsourcing jobs to other countries. He calls CEO's who employ foreigners Benedict Arnolds. But let's do the favor of taking Kerry's rhetoric seriously. CEO's seeking foreign customers and lower taxes abroad are "Benedict Arnolds," selling out their nation for venal reasons. Teresa Heinz Kerry owns millions in stock in the Heinz Company, the ketchup and pickle empire. Of Heinz's 79 factories, 57 are located outside North America, and 72 percent of its work force is offshore. John Kerry is, by his own logic, married to a woman implicated in acts of treason. Kerry's defense of the nation from dastardly betrayal should begin at home.
According to its website, Heinz is making ketchup, pizza crust, baby cereal and other edibles and products in such countries as England, Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Canada, Costa Rica, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Bostswana, Peoples Republic of China, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, Philippines, and India.
With wealth like THK's, the family has to be into everything: land, plastics, oil, trees, food, clothing, pharmaceuticals, everything.
From an email making the rounds:
Heinz
Check your Heinz bottles
I checked and my bottle of Heinz catsup says "Product of Canada"
Guess I'll be checking out all the Heinz products at the store! Shortly after reading the following e-mail content, I happened to look at the label of a jar of Heinz sandwich slice pickles. Yep...."Made in Mexico."
Check some of your Heinz products. Sen. John Kerry keeps talking about U.S. corporations leaving this country and setting up shop in foreign countries, taking thousands of jobs with them. He is right, because that has happened. However, he is trying to blame it on George W. Bush. As far as I know, Bush has not moved one factory out of this country because he is not the owner of a single factory. That cannot be said about Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Kerrys own 32 factories in Europe and 18 in Asia and the Pacific.
In addition, their company, the Heinz Company, leases four factories in Europe and four in Asia. Also, they own 27 factories in North America, some of which are in Mexico and the Caribbean.
I wonder how many hundreds of American workers lost their jobs when their plants relocated in foreign countries?
I also wonder if the workers in Mexico and Asia are paid the same wages and benefits as workers in the United States. Of course they're not. However, Kerry demands that other companies that relocate should pay the same benefits they did in the U.S.
Why does he not demand this of the Heinz Company, since he is married to the owner?
If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign factories and bring all those jobs back to America?
Of course they won't.
They're making millions off that cheap labor. The labels don't lie, does Kerry?
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE THE
FACTS!!
Kerry Led Outsourcing Trade Mission to China. Ties to Boston Company Boasting Over 70 Outsourcing Projects
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The facts are nice, but the truth about outsourcing is that it is not a bad thing, and nothing to be ashamed of. When US companies outsource, they become more efficient, cost-effective, which means lower prices for the consumer. Giving the libs the argument against outsourcing is like agreeing with them that Walmart is evil. Which is it?
As if the President of the US has any real authority regarding most aspects of the economy. Some other thoughts. One reason the GOP must appear to be "pro business" is simply that the GOP have only a mere fraction of the financial support structure the DNC have. Also, traditionally, and I like to believe that the GOP is more tradition minded than the DNC, the GOP has been on the side of traditional American values regarding economic freedom. Personally, I do agree that there is a point of valid criticism, though, regarding the way that some countries such as the PRC, who are ultimately inimical to Western values and goals, have been allowed to source much of our industry. That said, kowtowing the PRC (and taking the hands off approach towards companies sourcing there, and selling dual use items there) is not unique to either party. So, there is no point of true distinction. Yet another sKerry argument dashed to pieces.
I don't think she's on the board of directors, so while they profit for the outsourced jobs, they don't have control over them.
Will the Kerry's put their money where their mouths are & sell off all of their positions with corporations he previously referred to as traitors, but characterizing them as Benidict Arnolds?
This is about Kerry's hypocrisy. He's straddled the fence on this issue & should be forced to defind his position.
Right, I realize that, but are we going to sacrifice what is right just to hold Kerry to another one of his flipflops? It's not like we don't have plenty to choose from.
Actually, what I wonder is, will she have to put all her holdings in a blind trust if (please don't flame me, I'm just wondering) Kerry is elected ?
In a battleground state like Ohio, jobs is *the* issue. Job losses there can probably be attributed to state policy more than to national policy, but if the state is run by mostly Republicans, it might not be helpful to point that out. Meanwhile, Kerry's straddling position is ringing true to blue collars, who blame everything on national policy like they breath air. Years of union indoctrination has worked, which is why they do it.
WHich is why we need to preach the truth. Talk about what actually makes the economy grow. Low prices, low interest rates etc. When corporations are strong, the economy follows. What you're saying is we shold tell the libs what they want to hear and call Kerry out on something that we don't think is wrong in the first place, knowing that nothing will be done to change it? nuts.
WHich is why we need to preach the truth. Talk about what actually makes the economy grow. Low prices, low interest rates etc. When corporations are strong, the economy follows. What you're saying is we shold tell the libs what they want to hear and call Kerry out on something that we don't think is wrong in the first place, knowing that nothing will be done to change it? nuts.
We can't seem to convince many here about the truth, so trying to get through to the other side seems just so insurmountable.
Indeed. Check out...
"Official statistics published last March in the Survey of Current Business showed an increase of 2.8 million jobs outsourced by American-owned multinational corporations during a quarter of a century ending in 2001. Over that same span of time, there was an increase of 4.7 million jobs outsourced to Americans by foreign-owned multinational corporations." -- Thomas Sowell, here: http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3907
About the economy producing mostly "bad" jobs here: http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=208#
And see 10 myths about trade here: http://reason.com/0407/fe.bl.truths.shtml
Don't be so doctrinaire. If we always follwed the pure Catoite line, it would be a Dem landslide, 70% percent. Economic theories are fine as is the USA's tradition of economic freedom. That said, if one were to take the purist Catoite approach, we would utlimately lose our sovereignty. To pretend that there is no point of diminishing returns vis a vis "free trade," globalism and economic freedom, is to be just as much of an ideologue regarding economic freedom as Marx was regarding Communism. Let us not forget, the traditional feudal structures and the nation state are what led to the birth of capitalism. If we destroy them completely, capitalism will also die. Do not kill the mother of all geese laying golden eggs. Meditate on Burke, meditate on McKinley. Even Rove does the latter.
Ping.
See: "Presidents don't create jobs." here: http://www.capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=3907
"Politicians cannot make jobs." here: http://snipurl.com/91tj
"Politicians cannot create jobs or wealth. Such is axiomatic to straight thinkers." here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/perry/perry8.html
and
"Presidents DON'T control the economy, stupid" here: http://www.FreedomKeys.com/stupid.htm
it's just pointing out their hypocrisy.
kind of like when they talk about the 2nd Amendment being about hunting or looking at what Kerry voted for/against regarding guns.Or complaining that TaRayZa only paid 12. whatever % in taxes. I wish I could pay that little. It just points out their hypocrisy when they fight against the death tax or having a flat tax.
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