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In reply to the discussion: Whoever believes "American jobs for Americans" is racist should give up their jobs now [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)5. Exactly. So why don't you give up your job and hire one of them in your place?
Walk the walk, don't ya?
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Whoever believes "American jobs for Americans" is racist should give up their jobs now [View all]
Zalatix
May 2012
OP
Unfortunately, there's a deep racist, nativist vein running through America that this taps into.
baldguy
May 2012
#3
So if an American worker is in a vulnerable job then they can just suck it, right?
Zalatix
May 2012
#9
You kinda are saying that. You show absolutely no pity for America's working class.
Zalatix
May 2012
#19
I am very much part of America's working class. Knowledge industry "no-collar" 1099 Proletariat,
leveymg
May 2012
#22
Your claim is that you have a *good reason* to undermine American workers. The rebuttal is
Romulox
May 2012
#23
I didn't make any such claim. You mischaracterized my statement. Read it again.
leveymg
May 2012
#26
Nonsense. You don't get to dictate how your attack on workers is received. You're transparent. nt
Romulox
May 2012
#28
Once again: You have no sympathy for America's working class. Your arguments work to their detriment
Zalatix
May 2012
#36
You don't seem to grasp the difference between Trade in Services and Trade in Goods,
leveymg
May 2012
#44
Yup, you still don't understand much of this at all. You didn't even address most of my points.
Zalatix
May 2012
#45
I don't think "we're" in a war at all, if by we you mean the US as a government + its corporations.
HiPointDem
May 2012
#78
sigh. it ain't that simple. there is collusion between the us & china because the arrangement
HiPointDem
May 2012
#80
TL;DR version: But *LEVEYMG* works in the service industry. So *these* jobs are important! nt
Romulox
May 2012
#47
Then the poor things should quit buying stuff made elsewhere because it is cheaper
treestar
May 2012
#25
What's this "us" stuff? I'm blaming *you* for promoting a rightwing economics. nt
Romulox
May 2012
#34
Ah yes, blame American workers. The US Chamber of Commerce loves that argument.
Zalatix
May 2012
#35
It's a Corporatist meme used to divide the Cultural Left from the Economic Left
Odin2005
May 2012
#6
Wait, China has tariffs and currency manipulation but you don't call them isolationist
Zalatix
May 2012
#69
Americans would need jobs in order to do that. Said jobs moved overseas. Any further questions?
Zalatix
May 2012
#46
Is it the Economic Left if "opposition to Globalist Corporatism" is more a right-wing phenomenon?
pampango
May 2012
#32
Marine Le Pen wears pants. Pampango wears pants. Draw your own conclusion!!!! nt
Romulox
May 2012
#49
Besides, pampango's bizarre contention that laissez-faire economics are not of the HARD RIGHT
Romulox
May 2012
#50
I wonder what Pampango has to say now that his argument has been destroyed. AGAIN.
Zalatix
May 2012
#55
There's nothing "left" about pampango--she spouts Rightwing economics here, and nothing else.
Romulox
May 2012
#75
It isn't corporatists who accuse me of being a racist for believing that americans should have jobs.
lumberjack_jeff
May 2012
#59
I support two big issues: 1) Abortion rights; 2) race-to-the-bottom "free trade" (prison labor AOK!)
Romulox
May 2012
#16
Gawd, it's not 'racist,' it's 'chauvinist' or 'nationalist'. The way
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#39
It's done intentionally, to shame American workers into letting globalism fleece them out of jobs.
Zalatix
May 2012
#40
It's not an honest mistake. It's a concerted effort by the Right to appropriate the language of the
Romulox
May 2012
#48
Yes, because those pesky foreigners working in sweat shops are the reason for unemployment.
Puregonzo1188
May 2012
#42
You're wrong again. American habits aren't the problem, and you are lying about American students.
Zalatix
May 2012
#71