Ron Johnson: Outsourcing "Quite Beneficial to America"

[Scuba]

http://www.uppitywis.org/blogarticle/ron-johnson-outsourcing-quite-beneficial-america

The Global Economic Intersection estimates that over the last the last couple of decades the United States has lost over 30 million manufacturing jobs due to our enoromous trade imbalance-- we buy much more from foreign countries than we sell to them. Using the GEI's conservative estimate of jobs exported, if those jobs had not been exported, we would have "unemployment of 4.4% and we would be complaining of labor shortages."

Warren Buffett has sounded similar alarms about the trade deficit, saying it is "selling the nation out from under us" and that if we balanced our trade deficit the trend of diminishing manufacturing jobs would be reversed and the number of manufacturing jobs would grow.

Senator Ron Johnson, however, has a different view. He thinks that outsourcing of our manufacturing plants is "quite beneficial to America" and claims that for every one job that is outsourced, two are created back home:

Hey, RoJo, where are those two jobs?

[hobbit709]

1. "Beneficial to America"-TRANSLATION-Beneficial to the 1% assholes like him

Us serfs can starve

[bigdarryl]

2. Is he up for reelection this year

What a idiot

[Scuba]

3. He rode in on the teabilly wave in 2010 so we're stuck with him 'til 2016.

[dragonlady]

4. Not until 2016, unfortunately

There are rumors that Russ Feingold wants to get back to the Senate (he could return at his former seniority too!).