Over A Million Jobs Lost In Districts Where Pro-Outsourcing Chamber Advertises

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Source: Think Progress

Over A Million Jobs Lost In Districts Where Pro-Outsourcing Chamber Advertises

Two simple facts remain irrefutable when it comes to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s election spending. First, the Chamber accepts foreign money, which by its own admission goes into a general 501(c)(6) account. Second, the Chamber is buying massive amounts of political advertising from that account — just this week, the Chamber spent an unprecedented $10 million on advertising in competitive House and Senate districts.

The Chamber has yet to reveal who, exactly, is funding these attack ads, though they claim we should trust them that foreign money is not being used. While that remains an open question, the Chamber’s political agenda is not: it has long advocated for policies that outsource American jobs to foreign countries. The Chamber’s CEO, Tom Donohue, frequently defends outsourcing: for example, in 2004, he said “there are legitimate values in outsourcing — not only jobs, but work.” Recently, the Chamber came out against a Senate bill that would have discouraged outsourcing.

Today, a new report by the nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog Campaign Money Watch http://campaignmoneywatch.com/chamber/outsourcing found that more than 1.4 million jobs were outsourced since 1994 in the nine states in which the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending significant money. The group also found that more than 184,000 jobs were lost to outsourcing in the 22 congressional districts in which the Chamber has spent $4.8 million on political ads in the same time period.

From the report, here’s what the Chamber spent last week in Senate races, and how many jobs were lost to outsourcing there since 1994:



Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/13/chamber-outsourcing-report/

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, 60 Minutes -- calling all journalists!!!!

where is the US media coverage of this story?

[Downwinder]

2. They are probably all members.

[independent_voter]

3. their silence is bought, like it has been for 12 years

the first real acknowledgement of outsourcing on NBC has been a comedy called 'Outsourced' where they rub the unemployed worker's nose in it

[sulphurdunn]

4. They are the main beneficiaries of the spending.

[valerief]

6. Bought and paid for by global corporations. nt

[scentopine]

5. Obama and Geithner Promised Outsourcing Will Continue to India

Why do centrists hate American jobs? Why do they continue send jobs to India and other unregulated labor markets around the world?

Why is Obama pushing hard to continue foreclosures? Why did he promise a 3 month moratorium on foreclosures during his campaign if he didn't plan to follow through?

Why is Obama so indifferent to the non-rich? And why is he so deferential to the rich?

Why punish people because they don't make $500K a year?

Does Obama think tax credits or a few hundred dollars a year in a tax cut will really stimulate the economy and win votes with unemployment pushing 10% (and real unemployment over 15%)? Unemployed and over 50? Too bad - its off to walmart with ya!

Geithner can be seen here bragging about fucking over Americans and protecting the unregulated labor markets in sweat shops. That's what you get with a centrist. Complaining about the little people trying to stop tax breaks for outsourcing. All centrists do is complain about the non-rich. They need to stop complaining and help the rest of us who are trying to country back on the right path. Tax breaks for companies outsourcing to unregulated labor markets is the wrong path. But its a centrist path.

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April 20, 2010 Geithner also said that the administration of Barack Obama, President, would not seek to curb the investments of U.S. companies overseas as "our fortunes are tied with the world". There have been proposals to trim the tax privileges of U.S. companies that operate internationally. "We are not going to go down that path," promised Geithner. We know that it would make us weaker, not stronger."

"We have got the worst labour market since the Great Depression," the Treasury Secretary said. "Most Americans are still going through an incredibly difficult economic series of challenges and yet we've been very successful in working to keep our markets open under all that pressure."
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/We_will_block_protectionism_Geithner_assures_India_-nid-66937.html
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[aquart]

7. Now there's an ad you can run.

[DCKit]

8. Thanks! Duly forwarded. n/t