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Title: Obama to Tout Jobs Act at Company that Outsources
Source:
White House Dossier
URL Source: http://www.whitehousedossier.com/20 ... t-jobs-act-company-outsources/
Published: Sep 14, 2011
Author: Keith Koffler
Post Date: 2011-09-14 16:17:22 by Happy Quanzaa
Keywords: Obama-doma-ding-dong, Obamatuer Hour, Obamanomics in Action
Views: 4019
Comments: 3
President Obama today is visiting a small North Carolina manufacturing company that has outsourced half its workforce to Costa Rica and whose president is a Democratic politician who has contributed $2,000 to Obama. WestStar Precision, a machine manufacturing firm headquartered in the Raleigh-Durham area, has a second plant located in San Jose, Costa Rica. There are 24 employees at each site, according to an NBC affiliate in Raleigh. Ironically, Obama is traveling to the company’s headquarters to tout his new proposal to create jobs in the United States. While he’s there, he can thank WestStar President Ervin Portman for his financial assistance. According to the website Opensecrets.org, Portman, calling himself “Erv,” donated $1,000 to Obama on August 10, 2008. In a separate filing, “Ervin” Portman reported donating $1,000 to help fund Obama’s Inauguration. Portman, who sits on the Board of Commissioners for Wake County, N.C., has also been a major contributor to other Democratic candidates. In 2009-2010, Portman gave $5,000 to Democratic North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall’s failed campaign to unseat Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.). He also donated $250 to the successful 2008 campaign of Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.). Portman’s company makes no secret of its outsourcing, touting its Costa Rican plant on its website. A big tip of the hat to one of our readers, Lizzy, who first alerted me to the Costa Rica plant.
Our new office and manufacturing facility in San Jose, Costa Rica, also has approximately 10,000 sq. ft. with similar equipment as the main office. This facility is designed for high volume production to support our international and domestic clients.
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#1. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
Free trade globalization - once they kicked Buchanan out of the party - has been a right wing Republican sacred plank.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
Part of his jobs plan is to give incentives to companies to repatriate jobs and profits...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
What bad for all of us is this won't be Owe-bama's worst week by the end of the year.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
President Obama today is visiting a small North Carolina manufacturing company that has outsourced half its workforce to Costa Rica and whose president is a Democratic politician who has contributed $2,000 to Obama.
#2. To: Happy Quanzaa (#0)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
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