Reply #188: A lot of it sounds like it comes from the Tom Friedman/Marc Andreesen neo-lib playbook. [View All]

It almost makes you wonder if this sort of electoral indoctrination between the right-wing nutjob vs the right-leaning "democrat" is going to become ingrained from now on.

Year after year after year, it seems like we're not being left with much of a choice. Iran on the table, withdrawl (once we have the votes and the White House), capitulating to corporate needs, friendships with Reaganite bastards like Rupert Murdoch, not apologizing for believing the serial liar and war corporatist Failure Fuhrer, and now defense of job offshoring.

And to hear working people, people who aren't benefitting from offshoring or tax cuts actually becoming apologists for the practice and it's guillotine intentions, I gotta tell you all, it's REALLY fucking disheartening and despicable.

I'd like a logical explanation from Hillary how destroying one nation's working class to lift another helps working classes from both countries involved. Does she take in account unemployment and closed plants and businesses means less tax money going into the local and state communities, less income going into the economy, more secondary businesses such as bars, local stores, etc, closing because of all the lost revenue they once had when people are gainfully employed? Does she take into account the cost of retraining and the greater cost to the overall economy of likely underemployment (i.e. going from $25 to $13 dollars an hour)? Does she take into account the toll on the physical and mental health of the worker and the stress placed on families and relationships due to displacement? These are only some of the many reasons why offshoring and layoffs are unnecessary and economically detrimental.

Book after book after book provides more than enough real life examples of how this predatory and zero-sum practice is killing the livelihoods of everyday people, dismantling their hard work through no choice of their own. The Government and Corporate America does absolutely NOTHING to research, quell or cure this issue except brush off concerns and stunningly blame the WORKERS for their bad fortune.

It's sadder still to see the workers become big-business apologists.

Guess if it's going to happen, you might as well sit back and accept it, right?