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Title: Obama Now Blames The Internet For Job Losses
Source: Real Clear Politics
URL Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi ... e_internet_for_job_losses.html
Published: Dec 6, 2011
Author: The Magic Negro
Post Date: 2011-12-06 16:23:37 by jwpegler
Keywords: None
Views: 18970
Comments: 55

"Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn't just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the internet," President Obama said at a campaign event in Kansas.

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#10. To: jwpegler (#0) (Edited)

I can't stand this globalist/communist...but the fact is, the stage was set way before he took office by another group of global/communist/traitors...Clinton and Gingrich, with all the "free trade" deals they FORCED down the throats of the American populace. Ross Perot was 100% correct. Businesses were forced to go off shore or shut their doors. The country with the highest standard of living was FORCED to compete with 3rd world communist dictatorships where the peasants are more than happy tho work for $25.00 per week. Now we get to send money, we don't have, to countries that are gay/lesbian/transsexual friendly.

These globalists have hollowed out this once great country, they have bankrupted the people, they've stolen our wealth, shipped our jobs overseas, they've collapsed the real estate market and they are in the process of wiping out what is left of the middle class...and the American people still believe there's a difference in the republicans and the democrats. Ron Paul is THE ONLY man that's not in the pockets of these global communists.

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2011-12-06   17:54:15 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: freedomsnotfree (#10) (Edited)

Somewhere in the last 30 years we took a very wrong turn.

Think about Wall Street's role in society. It's important, but very, very narrow. They provide money to established companies to expand their business. Wall Street doesn't provide money to start companies. That money comes from the founder's savings, his/her friends and family, angel investors and venture capital firms. Wall Street provides money to established companies. That's it.

Yet, somehow in the last 30 years or so, Wall Street became the tail wagging the dog.

The politicians started focusing on how to make the stock market and bond market happy, rather than focusing on how to spur technological innovation and job creation in America.

America still innovates a lot -- more than any other country. But then we send the innovations overseas to be built elsewhere.

I am for free trade. I am for the global economy.

Americans are capable of competing with anyone anywhere. WE DON'T NEED LOW WAGES TO DO SO. We can out produce them with our productivity, based on our technological prowess. But our politicians have destroyed our competitive environment with their 78,000 page tax code and ever mounting regulations.

That's the real problem.

jwpegler  posted on  2011-12-06   18:11:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: jwpegler (#12)

jwp...thanks for the thoughtful response, however history has proved you wrong on this. Not only is it 3rd world wages we can't compete with, but OSHA, EPA, EEOC and a million other rules and regs that don't have to be met in these other countries. I'm ABSOLUTELY for global trade...BUT with high tariffs. that's how this country ran for centuries. It brought manufacturing TO this country. We now have a country that is run by and for these global corporations...at the expense of our freedoms and national sovereignty.

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2011-12-06   20:18:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: freedomsnotfree (#18)

history has proved you wrong on this. Not only is it 3rd world wages we can't compete with, but OSHA, EPA, EEOC and a million other rules and regs that don't have to be met in these other countries

You've told me I'm wrong but you just agreed with me...

We can't compete because of our tax code and all of the regulations from OSHA, EPA, EEOC and a million other rules and regs that don't have to be met in these other countries...

That's what I said. It's the truth. We agree.

American entrepreuers and workers can out compete anyone, anywhere.

The reason we are not doing so is due to the U.S. government's rules and regulations.

jwpegler  posted on  2011-12-06   20:42:56 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: jwpegler (#19)

We can't compete because of our tax code and all of the regulations from OSHA, EPA, EEOC and a million other rules and regs that don't have to be met in these other countries...

That's what I said. It's the truth. We agree.

On this we agree...The playing fields are certainly NOT level...wages are a part of that scenario.

freedomsnotfree  posted on  2011-12-06   21:18:43 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#35. To: freedomsnotfree (#32) (Edited)

On this we agree...The playing fields are certainly NOT level...wages are a part of that scenario.

Let's say that you live in the third world. You can produce one thing an hour. You get paid $1 an hour.

Let's say that you live in America. You get paid $10 an hour but you can produce 12 things a hour.

Who is more valuable? Do the math.

America is the most productive society in the world.

The reason that we can't compete is because of the government's convoluted tax and regulatory systems. It's all about the rotten government.

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