jasmine621
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:17 AM
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NAFTA isn't the only thing to cost US jobs...maybe not even the biggest factor. |
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Remember all those good paying jobs for telephone operators, mainframe computers requiring punched cards and tapes, receptionists, airline hostesses and stewards, conference coordinators, machinists and mold fitters...a lot of these jobs have been computerized, automated, and modernized so that people are not necessary. I can think of many more good paying jobs that have met the automation fate. Wonder why folks don't get angry with Bill gates and others who made billions by displacing all those workers? (see how silly it all sounds). Those good apying jobs did not go to Mexican crossing the border but to H1-visa holders who flew into the country and never left. If you want to spend time looking for scapegoats there are enough to go around. We need to focus on what we should be doing to address the problems we face instead of looking for opponents to blame. I hope Obama understands this. Lately I have heard mostly blame-game from him with some rhetoric about hope and yes we can. Yes we can what? Blame HRC for Iraq, blame Bill for NAFTA (which was introduced and passed before he came into office), blame each other for the misery many are suffering? I am so sick of this primary. By the time the GE comes around voters will be so tired of it all many will just stay home. I keep hearing more and more people say they are fed up with ALL the candidates.
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:19 AM
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1. Bill signed it, Hillary voted for it. It doesn't matter what they thought personally. |
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:53 AM
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2. Since she was First Lady at the time, how could she have voted on it? |
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:54 AM
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3. I was talking about NAFTA (Bill) and the IWR vote (Hillary) |
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Tue Apr-15-08 12:59 AM
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4. No, just fed up with bullshit like your OP |
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It is completely fair to put some blame of Hillary for Iraq - SHE VOTED FOR IT! This is a nasty fact Hillary supporters don't want to seem to admit.
And NAFTA was only able to pass Congress because Bill made it a legislative priority in 1993. He and Hillary both championed it.
These are facts that Clinton supporter's rhetoric and yelling won't undo.
And finally, for a Clinton supporter to say "We need to focus on what we should be doing to address the problems we face instead of looking for opponents to blame" at this point in the campaign is beyond belief. You clearly are not paying attention, there is no other way to explain that.
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