1/07/2004

Democrats really begin to zero in on the outsourcing of jobs. This is a bigger hot button than many of you realize. They will attack "free trade" as a shipment of our jobs overseas and the only benefit is to the execs with the $50 million pay packages. This means things like runaway production in Hollywood, importation of music, as well as every piece of clothing you wear, every car made, etc., etc., etc. If they can make it simple by attacking WalMart and rich execs this will have big traction. Stay tuned. "The only beneficiary from "outsourcing of jobs" (free trade) is the fat cats with the $10 million pay package who make it by firing U.S. workers." Red meat stuff. And the awful WalMart pay and benefits packages coupled with firing workers who are on the company health care program so departments can lower expenses will be big too. Lou Dobbs at CNN is running point on this right now. Dobbs is very smart, he's no radical lefty, and he sees "free trade" as simply a looting of our creative output by foreigners. This election will about far more than Iraq and Dean is the ideal guy to carry these messages. Wake up GOP, you got what you wished for. Of course seniors (how the hell do you tell?) will want to buy drugs in Canada or some other place; music will be downloaded; the Hollywood big shots will evade in cooperation with the scab actors; then software companies will use the tried and true "reverse engineering" to get around the barriers; Toyotas will be banned; the GOP could have real problems with this.

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