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Joe Biden: Romneys Outsourcing Explanation A Cruel Joke
Benjy Sarlin June 27, 2012, 1:33 PM
Vice President Joe Biden kept up the heat on Mitt Romneys investments at Bain Capital in companies that outsourced on Wednesday, telling a crowd in Dubuque, Iowa, that it went to the core of the governors economic philosophy.
After days of saying nothing in response to our criticism for that policy, the Romney campaign responded, I think yesterday, by saying we just dont get it, we dont understand the difference
between offshoring and outsourcing, Biden said. If youre looking for work, thats a pretty cruel joke.
He continued with an image straight out of a New Yorker cartoon: I can picture one guy in my old neighborhood standing next to another guy in the unemployment line and saying, Hey John, did you get offshored or outsourced?
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Arguing that Romney put outsourcing into practice in public policy, Biden went into an extended riff on a bill he vetoed in Massachusetts as governor that would have prevented state contractors from farming out operations overseas. At issue was a $160,000 contract with Citigroup, which used call centers in India to help manage the states food-stamp program. Biden called the measure a cruel irony.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/joe-biden-romneys-outsourcing-explanation-a-cruel-joke.php?ref=fpa
sinkingfeeling
(51,499 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)How can ANYONE justify such a thing???
BeyondGeography
(39,398 posts)Pretty damn good, Joe.
Lionessa
(3,894 posts)I'm sorry, but yeah, Romney's a jerk, but while they're talking this up, they're selling our futures in new trade agreements and making corporations even more powerful, worldwide.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)labor and environmentalists and local governments are sitting at the table.