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Angry cries of America's 'outsourced' middle class
The Arizona Republic ^ | 03.09.04 | E.J. Montini

Posted on 03/09/2004 5:35:30 PM PST by Beck_isright

Edited on 05/07/2004 5:22:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Among those who apparently didn't listen to the 43-year-old unemployed woman whose recorded message was posted online last week by The Republic were Arizona's Jon Kyl and John McCain, along with 24 of their Senate colleagues, all of them collecting fat government paychecks.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; election; outsourcing; unemployment
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"The fact that we're using taxpayers' money to ship somebody's job overseas, I don't think that's a good thing."

The day that I thought I would ever agree with Dodd about anything has arrived. I can not believe that the American people will buy his tripe as he has profited from the outsourcing craze.
1 posted on 03/09/2004 5:35:30 PM PST by Beck_isright
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To: Willie Green; Lazamataz
Ping...
2 posted on 03/09/2004 5:35:52 PM PST by Beck_isright ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - (Fill in name of Democrat here))
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""I am not remotely concerned about terrorism. I am not even mildly worried about gay marriages. I am in danger of starving to death.""

This guy is a true idiot!!!

How many american have starved to death since 9/11
3 posted on 03/09/2004 5:40:04 PM PST by raloxk
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To: raloxk
alot of people starve here in the US
4 posted on 03/09/2004 5:41:19 PM PST by Afro_conservative
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To: raloxk
of course, that is an exaggeration.

but do not discount this phenomena, its real, its affecting what is primarily a republican demographic (private sector middle class), and it may well bring an angry mob of voters to the polls, as Bush has not handled this well and is not showing he is at all connected to the people described in this article.
5 posted on 03/09/2004 5:42:40 PM PST by oceanview
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"alot of people starve here in the US"

I'd like to see some statistics on that.

youre telling me that people in the USA die from not getting enough food?????
6 posted on 03/09/2004 5:43:33 PM PST by raloxk
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To: Beck_isright
Bush should sign that bill as fast as possible.
7 posted on 03/09/2004 5:43:49 PM PST by oceanview
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To: oceanview
actually from today it sounds like he is going to veto it
8 posted on 03/09/2004 5:44:34 PM PST by raloxk
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How many american have starved to death since 9/11?

Probably more than civilian Americans in America?
9 posted on 03/09/2004 5:44:57 PM PST by lelio
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To: oceanview
"... as Bush has not handled this well and is not showing he is at all connected to the people described in this article."

Michael Savage pointed this out three months ago. Bush's handlers have never been in touch with the middle class and now are gambling that this issue is not important.

I think this is the hottest third rail now. The Social Security problem will not matter if household income declines along with increases in bankruptcies and foreclosures by the middle class.
10 posted on 03/09/2004 5:46:08 PM PST by Beck_isright ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - (Fill in name of Democrat here))
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"Probably more than civilian Americans in America?"


I dont understand what that means
11 posted on 03/09/2004 5:46:16 PM PST by raloxk
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youre telling me that people in the USA die from not getting enough food?????

The IT manager in the article? A good friend of mine.

I am telling you that she is going hungry so her kids can eat.

12 posted on 03/09/2004 5:47:20 PM PST by SCalGal
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"Bush should sign that bill as fast as possible."

It's just window dressing. There are more concrete efforts that could be executed, but the destruction of the IRS and revision of the tax code will never occur.
13 posted on 03/09/2004 5:47:21 PM PST by Beck_isright ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - (Fill in name of Democrat here))
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To: raloxk
I meant to say "More people have probably starved to death in America than civilians killed in terrorist activities since 9/11." Meaning that to this person to this person terrorism doesn't even enter his realm of thinking.
14 posted on 03/09/2004 5:48:18 PM PST by lelio
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Oh why, oh why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs?
15 posted on 03/09/2004 5:49:02 PM PST by Mike Darancette (General - Alien Army of the Right (AAOTR))
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To: SCalGal
Can you fill us in on the backstory?
16 posted on 03/09/2004 5:50:25 PM PST by reformedliberal
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Democrats plan to use America's fear of outsourcing as a strategy to get voters to reject President Bush in November. And because the opposition is playing up the problem, Republicans must play it down. But as one man who wrote to me said, "It is not about the left or the right, but about the middle."

The middle class is squeezed by uncontrolled legal and illegal immigration on one side, and offshoring/outsourcing on the other. Throw in the harsh environment after 9/11, and yes, this is a serious issue that Washington had better start paying attention to. Pissed off people don't usually vote for incumbents.

17 posted on 03/09/2004 5:51:26 PM PST by spodefly (The kinder, gentler spodefly.)
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To: Mike Darancette
sure, the semiconductor industry is the modern day equivalent of the blacksmith industry.
18 posted on 03/09/2004 5:52:28 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Mike Darancette
I was wondering when Rove would get those faxblasts out....
19 posted on 03/09/2004 5:52:37 PM PST by Beck_isright ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman" - (Fill in name of Democrat here))
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why didn't President McKinley outlaw automobiles so that buggywhip makers and blacksmiths would not lose their jobs

False analogy. The outsourcing issue is not about replacing an obsolete technology with a better one. It is about replacing American labor with foreign labor. Why do people adopt facile arguments with no moral compunction?

20 posted on 03/09/2004 5:53:22 PM PST by steve86
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