Love the metaphor...but this

jollyroger — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:55:19 +0000

In reply to I still think you're looking

Love the metaphor...but this is a family blog. Can we make it "beating" the wrong end...

I still think you're looking

Verified Atheist — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:29:05 +0000

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I still think you're looking at the wrong end of that horse…

As the jobs left the US, we

Resistance — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:24:42 +0000

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As the jobs left the US, we lost leverage on all these fronts you mention.

The exporting of jobs is a

Verified Atheist — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:19:15 +0000

In reply to “By all means, workers should

The exporting of jobs is a secondary cause at worst. The primary cause is not being willing to pay workers what they're worth. To that end, multiple means are applied, including:

Unpaid overtime,
Delegitimizing unions,
Fighting against the formation of unions, and, yes,
Exporting jobs to where there are no unions and wages are significantly less.

“By all means, workers should

Resistance — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:15:52 +0000

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“By all means, workers should rally to protect their jobs and pensions as they have in Wisconsin, ........who are ultimately to blame for the financial pressures behind the attack on them.”

I'd add who or what, is ultimately to blame?

IMHO allowing the EXPORTING of jobs, because to those industries that left America there was nothing to lose from their point of view.

We the American worker had plenty to lose.......our jobs, out taxbase, leading to our loss of a safety net. Hows that for something to lose?.

WHO DO YOU BLAME for this loss?

I hope the protest turns into something bigger? I hope the protestors don't disband when it appears they have won. They haven't won anything except holding ground.

Obama after HIS self serving victory, disbanded his army of supporters to soon. The opposition was able to regroup; they had only lost a battle, but not the war of ideology.

Had Obama gotten after the retreating foes, we wouldn’t be having foes, trying to still outflank us. We had the offensive and instead we went back to defense.

We need to stay on the offense, and again, because we failed to completely destroy the supply lines of the opponent. We are still fighting for our rights.

Our opponent returns more determined to cut our supply lines.

If Obama had more than a plan of self serving he should have been more like Sherman’s March; instead it was similar to General McClellan’ inaction.

You can't win a war game with defense;

Similarly, make corporations and industry pay, for abandoning the American worker.

Instead people like the Koch brothers can attack Unions with no reprisal, trying to cut our lines of supply ( Union dues to support our troops).

With the attitude "nothing to lose for trying" people like the Koch’s,wil take the offensive all the time and we will always be on defense.

What is or should be, the Democratic response to the Export of Jobs and the importation of foreign goods?

If the Democratic Party is divided on that issue the Corporations will continue to leave our country; why not; there is nothing for them to lose.

I am in favor of collective bargaining; I am more in favor of decent wages, so I can save enough for retirement I can pay for my health premiums,I can pay taxes.

Bring back the exported jobs or Tax the ones that left, call it reparations for attacking us, because they too thought “they had nothing to lose”

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Love the metaphor...but this

I still think you're looking

As the jobs left the US, we

The exporting of jobs is a

“By all means, workers should