The Bush Concept of the Middle Classes' Future

[General Lee]

Here is a quote from the NY Times regarding bush's continuing plans for Middle Class jobs!:

"People do lose jobs as a result of globalization, and it's painful for those who lose jobs," Mr. Bush said at meeting with young entrepreneurs at Hyderabad's Indian School of Business, one of the premier schools of its kind in India. Nonetheless, the president said, "globalization provides great opportunities."

Mr. Bush strongly defended the outsourcing of American jobs to India as the reality of a global economy, and said that the United States should instead focus on India as a vital new market for American goods. Hyderabad is a center of India's booming high-tech industry, and was also on Mr. Clinton's itinerary when he visited India in 2000.

"The classic opportunity for our American farmers and entrepreneurs and small businesses to understand is, there is a 300 million-person market of middle-class citizens here in India, and that if we can make a product they want, that it becomes viable," Mr. Bush said at the business school.

Outsourcing the Middle Class


Is this guy for real?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. His idea of middle class and what they call middle class in India

are totally different. Anyway, the US makes very few non-perishable mass market consumer goods anymore, so it's a moot point anyway.

[Justpat]

2. In other words -

Let them eat mangos.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. "new market for American goods?" WTF do we make other than weapons?

[kenny blankenship]

7. Gleaming piles of debt, stretching up into the sky.

something to be proud of.

[BlueEyedSon]

8. I don't think anyone is looking to import THAT!

[kenny blankenship]

9. Nevertheless, it's a legacy, to be proud of & pass on to future Americans

[LiberalEsto]

13. fries nt

[BlueEyedSon]

15. No, they're FRENCH

[phantom power]

4. At a guess, the Chimp isn't aware that..

there's a difference between being middle class in a country where middle-class is defined as earning something like, say, $80K/year, and a country where middle-class is more like $20K/year

[tularetom]

5. "vital new market for American goods" my ass

Unfortuantely there is no such thing as American goods anymore. We are not a manufacturing economy. Thanks to * and his global cronies and outsourcing of tech jobs to India we are barely even an idea economy anymore. We are well on the way to third workd status as a resource economy, a colony of those countries to whom * has sold us out.

I'm glad there is a 300 million person market of middle class citizens there because they are an endangered species here in Amurka.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. I found some interesting statistics on our exports to India over

the past few years.

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/product/enduse/exports/c5330.html

It looks like a large part of our exports include raw materials for their manufacturing industries so the goods can be sold back to us.

[liberal N proud]

6. Crush the Middle Class - one of bu$h's ultimate goals

I managed to turn a republican today against bu$h and a republican manager. 8x10 pic of bu$h on his desk, you know where most people would have their wife's picture.

Scenario:
Sitting in a meeting with the people I manage and upper management for our firm. The department I manage has been downsized in the last five years from 25 to 7 people.
One of the topics of the meeting was how to handle the backlog of projects within the department.
This asshole manager (director level) sits there and says we can outsource the work to India.

The group went silent for a few moments, then moved on to the next subject.

Later, my people were in my office in outrage. I did get a chance to speak to each one in a one on one setting. One of them has spoke out several times when others are talking politics.
I pointed out to him that I was not shocked when this guy said it because he was just repeating what he heard bu$h say earlier. It was a chance to seize the moment and I think he actually saw what I was saying. I think he actually felt that bu$h policies may hit home.

That is what it is going to take for most of the sheep to come out of the stupor that KKKarl and bu$h regime have them in, an awaking from the 9/11 comma

[madrchsod]

11. walmart wants to and maybe importing milk products

from india. i read several months ago that they wanted to import milk products but i haven`t seen a follow up...american farmers? ya right

[sutz12]

12. I've got it...

WE should all emigrate to India and work as servants to their middle class. There certainly won't be one around here for very long.

The neo-con ideal doesn't recognize a wage earner as 'middle class.' Therefore, they think that destroying jobs is good for Amerika because it keeps those lower class workers in their place, worrying about whether they can feed, house, and clothe their kids.

[European Socialist]

14. The clapper. But, I think thats made in China.