Reply #35: But does the CEO class care? NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[HughBeaumont]

Really, the only people who seem to support this Reaganite/Welchian practice is the extremely wealthy, and those who think they aren't peasants.

I mean, let's face it. It's not like Marc Andreesen, Greg Mankiw, David Dreier, Carly Fiorina, Mike DeWine, Jack Welch, the BFEE, Elaine Chao, every idiot at the Heritage and Cato institutes, Thomas Friedmann, etc, etc, are ever going to be in danger of losing a job. They're never in danger of starving, forced to train their replacement for severance pay, being hounded by bill collectors, having their utilities shut off, have their life stopped dead in it's tracks, forced to scrap up money and time to train for a new career (never mind that they may have loved what they did previously, or the fact that the career they're training for likely isn't location-safe), be constantly in fear that this may be your last day on the job . . .

Of course they support it. They're on the firING side of the desk, not the FIRED side. America's victimizing ownership class never take it personally when they fire someone or hundreds of people; it's something far worse. It's that they simply don't care and think not one iota about it at all. All they give three shits about is pleasing the fat white rich old men who own their companies. There's no concept of empathy in them. They're all cold-hearted bastards who drained their souls for greed and wouldn't veer from that numbness if one of their relatives died right in front of them.

Who the hell is from the middle class and can say "job offshoring is a GOOD thing" with a straight face? What's even MORE unbelieveable is that there are supposed DEMOCRATS thinking this way????!? If you were cattle, would you have a shit-eating grin all the way to the slaughterhouse? Offshoring jobs destroys corporate morale, makes rich men insanely richer, expands nothing but the rich-poor gap, fattens CEO pockets (Chainsaw Carly proved this in every company she ran), ruins communities and small businesses and more to the point, further allows imperial corporations to yet again thumb their nose at their economic, societal and cultural responsibility (and make no mistake, they do have some). This is why it's good for the economy . . . because THEY ARE the economy and we're on the outside looking in.

"Free trade" is an ownership class LIE. You want to impress me, Dems (because Repukes will go down the bunker with the Failure Fuhrer on everything)? Let's take a cue from Sherrod Brown and talk FAIR trade. FAIR trade would include labor protections and safety regulations for foreign workers, something that doesn't exist under the unbridled capitalist model now. FAIR trade would include corporate regulations of some sort and eliminate corporate personhood. FAIR trade would have to include a better plan for re-entering displaced workers into equivalent wages at equivalent careers. Maybe FAIR trade should also include provisos that no worker should have to fend for their damned selves when they're axed through no fault or choice of their own, but because they simply weren't cheap enough.

All free trade does is plunge the middle classes of ALL nations to the bottom of the well, especially ours. Indian wages are already rising, leaving corporations to look for even cheaper nations. Even with the wage increase, it isn't like they live in astounding conditions. Their infrastructure and pollution problems still exist, as does the overcrowding and outdated utilities.

A strong economy is supposed to accommodate EVERYBODY at a liveable wage, not just the heavily degreed and privileged.

Free trade is a moldy bill of Reaganite goods that benefits the CAPITAL of the country, not the labor. Retraining is a crock when you don't even know what you're re-training for, nor do you know that the career you choose isn't going to follow it's predecessor offshore or be subject to the wage-ravaging phenomenon spawned from . .. er. . . "competitiveness".

Just remember this, for those who want to defend this very detrimental and Republican business tactic.