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Oh oh --- more cheap labor. So where is Obama negotiating for factories to go now that Chinese workers want more than $0.25 an hour?
You seem to be confused. It was Romney who negotiated for cheap Chinese workers to make products for a Bain Capital investment, not Obama. Obama will be talking in Asia about human rights...you know those nice little things like not locking workers in factories 24/7 working for slave wages and not putting children as young as ten to work in factories. Trying to level the playing field a little to make it easier for us to compete.
He showed up, made a speech, tells someone else to do the work, off he goes. Nothing new. The GOP should just put forth a single page solution, raise taxes on the rich and 10 percent cut in all spending across the board.
So what exactly is it that conservatives want now? For the President to not ever travel overseas?
How about work? You know the thing the rest of us try to do every day?
How about work on a budget? He's been let off the hook on this for FOUR years!
How about meeting with the jobs council? We are a little desperate for them.
Spend some time on domestic economic affairs and delegate this other crap that doesn't benefit the American people one bit!
Oh oh --- more cheap labor. So where is Obama negotiating for factories to go now that Chinese workers want more than $0.25 an hour?
Yea f**k the G20. Obviously, b/c presidents should never care about global politics and diplomacy. I mean, that totally not one of the jobs of the executive branch is does.... oh wait.
Obama heads off to Asia as fiscal cliff approaches
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Originally Posted by KUchief25
What a shock. The US left to look at the empty chair in the white house yet again. Just remember you fools voted for this when you have to pay the piper.
"President Obama yesterday announced he’s jetting off on a victory lap around Southeast Asia, despite a new government report warning the Jan. 1 fiscal cliff will plunge the US into a recession and drive the unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent.
Obama and Congress have just 52 days to reach a deal to avoid sailing off that precipice, when a devastating double whammy of tax hikes and budget cuts will rock the economy and hit just about every American. …
But those tense negotiations won’t interfere with Obama’s boarding Air Force One for a three-day tour of Bangkok, Rangoon and Phnom Penh.Along the way, he’ll meet with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to mark 180 years of diplomatic relations, chat with Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi and attend the East Asia Summit in Cambodia. He takes off Nov. 17."
The destruction of the economy will begin post haste.........
"Meanwhile, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a report highlighting the economic shock that awaits America. The automatic spending cuts and tax increase will shrink the already anemic economy by 0.5 percent and cause the jobless rate to spike to 9.1 percent, the report predicted."
Thise "fiscal cliff" is a creation of the GOP house and it's up to Boehner to get it cleared up, if he's so inclined.
If the president doesn't lift a finger, the Bush tax cuts expire, raising revenue. The Simpson/Boles spending cuts go into effect, slashing the deficit.
Seems to be exactly what the right wingers have been asking for.
He showed up, made a speech, tells someone else to do the work, off he goes. Nothing new. The GOP should just put forth a single page solution, raise taxes on the rich and 10 percent cut in all spending across the board.
Uh...isn't that what the whole "Grand Bargain" thing was going to be that the GOP refused to agree to?
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Obama heads off to Asia as fiscal cliff approaches
