Naum over at AZ Place
points out that Hillary Clinton, member of the Friends of India Caucus (but not much of a friend to working Americans, as it turns out), won the
2005 Weasel Award from the ITPAA.
The ITPAA based its award on Indian press reports of Sen. Clinton supporting outsourcing and assuring political and business leaders in India that the US would not attempt to save the jobs lost. "Outsourcing will continue," Clinton said in Delhi on Feb 28, according to a report by the Asia Times. "There is no way to legislate against reality. We are not in favor of putting up fences."
"Her statements got little press here but were splashed all over the Indian media," Kirwin says. "Does she think we aren't going to find out about it?" Kirwin says that the India media is the best source of information about outsourcing and what he terms "labor dumping" - using immigration policies to dampen wages.
Democrats often wring their hands and wonder what happened to organized labor, and why a large number of white, working class Americans no longer vote Democratic "despite it being against their economic interest."
I would suggest to you, when one of the more powerful and prominently known Democratic Senators so gleefully sells American workers out to India, and then turns around and acts like she did the opposite to American reporters, that a lot of working class Americans have no reason to vote Democratic, since many Democrats harm them at least as much as the GOP(see Biden & Bankruptcy bill for more information).
At least with the GOP, you don't have the hypocrisy of pretending to care about workers having their jobs outsourced that you do with "centrist" Democrats.
Hillary '08? Not if the Rat has anything to do with it.
Wussgawd, aka Desert Rat.
This entry has been crossposted at Desert Rat Democrat