Just like more attacks in Iraq are a good sign.
Somehow, I don't think these headlines are playing well across the states, red or blue either one.
The economy has hemorrhaged 2.8 million manufacturing jobs since President Bush took office. And the Administration thinks that's just ducky. As the LA Times reported on yesterday's White House economic report with the headline, "President Bush supports the shift of U.S. jobs overseas ." And this wasn't just one newspaper's characterization – it was the headline all over the country: the Seattle Times noted that the White House claims, "Sending jobs overseas helps U.S.," the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said the "Bush economic report praises 'outsourcing' jobs" and the Orlando Sentinel notes, "Bush says sending jobs abroad can be beneficial." The rationale, as explained by White House economist Gregory Mankiw, is that shipping jobs overseas is simply the "latest manifestations of the gains from trade that economists have talked about." Summing up the Administration's position, the report said: "When a good or service is produced more cheaply abroad, it makes more sense to import it than make or provide it domestically." Paul Kennedy, a Republican and the president of Kennedy Die Castings Inc. summed up the Administration's problem: "These guys just don't get it, period." (American Progress's Christian Weller offers an alternative view of the Administration's support for sending jobs overseas.) Progress Report
But I'm pretty sure the administration figures Americans will swallow anything they're fed. It has no reason up to this point to think otherwise.
I'm still trying to figure out how cheaper prices are a good thing if you don't have a job. What can you buy with no income? I don't care how cheap it is.
I think the people they're aiming this at - the Repukes with money - are already convinced. It's those flag wavers who are losing their jobs in droves that I wonder about when I see headlines like that. Maybe they can't read.
....but hey, whatever.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
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