Unions Press Clinton on Outsourcing Of U.S. Jobs

[Life Long Dem]

By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 8, 2007; Page A01

When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Delhi to meet with Indian business leaders in 2005, she offered a blunt assessment of the loss of American jobs across the Pacific. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she declared. "Outsourcing will continue. . . . We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences."

Two years later, as a Democratic presidential hopeful, Clinton struck a different tone when she told students in New Hampshire that she hated "seeing U.S. telemarketing jobs done in remote locations far, far from our shores."

The two speeches delivered continents apart highlight the delicate balance the senator from New York, a dedicated free-trader, is seeking to maintain as she courts two competing constituencies: wealthy Indian immigrants who have pledged to donate and raise as much as $5 million for her 2008 campaign and powerful American labor unions that are crucial to any Democratic primary victory.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702780.html?nav=rss_business

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Hillary votes one way and talks another way.

[antigop]

1. Watch these videos....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLBSLLIhUs
Hillary pushes for more h1-b visas and outsourcing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNOSGM2jK4
Lou Dobbs: Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdrh2Bc95M
Lou Dobbs: Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy (part 2)

[itsrobert]

2. Ouch and very embarrasing to Hillary and her supporters

thanks for posting.

[asdjrocky]

7. Sorry,

Not a Clinton fan, but I can't listen to anything Lou Dobbs says.

[antigop]

8. Lou Dobbs has reported on outsourcing and the destruction of the middle class for quite some time nt

[asdjrocky]

9. I feel ya.

Nothing at all against you, or the middle class, believe me. I'm pro Union, for the working slobs, and against corporate greed. I just can't stand Lou Dobbs.

[antigop]

10. Pro-union...YES!!!! n/t

[Union Thug]

3. Hillary needs to tune into Thom Hartmann for some ideas.

Of course, she doesn't really believe that there is no way. Hillary is Bill in a pantsuit. Bill stabbed US labor in the back and Hillary is unlikely to do anything differently.

[asdjrocky]

4. Thanks for the post.

K&R

[HughBeaumont]

5. Reason number 1 why I'm not voting for her.

I've pointed this out for years. Some of Hillary's supporters on this board amazingly support this Republican predatory business practice. They think there's nothing wrong with destroying one middle/working class to elevate another's.

I think it's frankly dishonest to tell America's HS graduates to major in science, tech and math when in all likelihood they'll be priced out of the market and deeply in debt after 4-6 years of college.

[papau]

6. Seems Post forgets their reporting Tata's Buffalo office's 2 Americans out of 50 after Tata had

promised Hillary that if she supported - or at least did not oppose - their getting an outsourcing contract from IBM they would open an office in a job poor part of New York State (Buffalo) with 50 jobs.

Seems the Post loses its memory if it helps them bash Hillary.

[Life Long Dem]

11. Two jobs make up for how many outsourced jobs?

50 jobs would no way make up for the fact that Hillary is for offshoring jobs.