Outsource THIS
11th July 2012
Scott Johnson gloats.
Andrea Mitchell invited Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu to appear on her MSNBC show to discuss the Obama campaign talking point of the day (or is it month?): outsourcing. Mitchell had the Obama campaign memo, alright, and sought to execute like a good foot soldier.
But Mitchell was unprepared for the Romney campaign’s counterattack on Obama as outsourcer-in-chief. It has something to do with those vaunted green jobs brought to us by the administration. “When you’ve sent $500 million to Fisker and it goes to Finland immediately. When you send the solar money and it goes to Mexico. When you send the turbine money and it goes to Denmark. And we can go on all day,” Sununu said. “There is $29 billion worth of purchases that came out of this administration, outsourced jobs to foreign countries.”
July 11th, 2012 at 12:32
I’m reminded of George Burns’ quip concerning dating: “I’d date women my age, but there are no women my age.”
And there are no companies in the US who can do this work.
But this isn’t really about outsourcing jobs; it’s about the Replicants utter rejection of ‘alternative energy’ in toto. They’re making plenty of money off Old Technology, and that’s being threatened. Left to there own devices, Romney and his fellow-travelers would have killed these initiatives outright, thus rendering the conversation about outsourcing moot because there would be no jobs to outsource.
The biggest burr under Romney’s saddle lies in not being able to buy these foreign companies, dismantling them, and walk away with a tidy profit whill leaving the stockholders to clean up the mess.
How’s that Trickle Down thing workin’ for ya?