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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (31461)	6/18/2004 6:39:46 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush's economic team thinks offshoring of R&D is a good thing for the US economy. When we offshore R&D and use our markets as a sortof dumping ground for products produced anywhere but here, we do not increase the intellectual capital of the nation or wealth of the citizenry. Its a race to the bottom and nothing more. Sortof a "nike-ization" of the entire US. What happens when you do that? The senior executives get richer and the middle class gets poorer. Instead of trying to mitigate the situation Bush policies encourage it. Take a look at the trade numbers today, sound good to you? Kerry intends to implement a double tax system to try to disspell offshoring. Sure it won't be 100% effective but it might help with some and shore up the Bush budget disaster to boot. Bush is a scourge on our markets and system. Bush's "manufacturing czar" was an offshorer and the company he visited in 02 as some sort of hallmark of the "Bush recovery" ended up closing plants and moving to china a year later. What a loser.