Lou dobbs has had nothing good to say about *

[w8liftinglady]

he is totally disgusted...saying the economy is going to shit,jobs are going to shit,and * has no desire to secure the borders

[WI_DEM]

1. Lou Dobbs?

[converted_democrat]

2. Yep... He's been super harsh on * tonight.. It's quite ammusing..n/t

[w8liftinglady]

3. he says bush failed to address the middle class at all

all the programs are set to benefit the wealthy voters

[Protagoras]

4. Dobbs does this once a week...but then

he goes back and trashes the dems and votes republican and repeats neocon talking points.

He has his cake...he continues to eat it. I'm willing to agree with him when he's right but not when he's Right.

And most of the time he is plenty far to the Right. If the real old school Conservatives hated the Neocons as much as they claim...they'd stop voting for them.

[xultar]

5. Yes, apparently the Dem Trashing comes the very next day after

* bashing

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. And he is right. nt

[napi21]

7. I link Lou's program,, and I listen every night.

I don't expect to ALWAYS agree with ANYBODY! In fact, I can't think of a single official, TV personality, radio personality, or newspaper that I agree with ALL THE TIME!

Yes, there are some issues that Lou is on the Right side of, but more times than not, he asks the questions I would like to ask, makes some good suggestions, and he's not afraid to state his positions! You don't find that with very many show hosts anymore.

[Zambero]

8. He's as close to being objective as any journalist

He doesn't "tow the line" for either the right or the left. Consequently partisans on either side of the divide don't like him.

[stillcool]

9. I beg to differ....

if my information came from any cable news medium, I would be truly ignorant. All of them do a dis-service to the American people.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I'll bet Lou wishes he hadn't donated a grand to Bush/Cheney inc.

SUCKER!

[Just Me]

11. His is one of the few shows I still watch because,...

,...he is quite persistent about defending the middle class, even if I don't always agree with how he thinks we need to be defended.

[JohnyCanuck]

12. Sounds like Lou has been reading Counterpunch.

The True State of the Union
More Deception from the Bush White House

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

<snip>

Neither did Bush tell Americans any of the dire facts reported by economist Charles McMillion in the January 19 issue of Manufacturing & Technology News:

During Bush's presidency the US has experienced the slowest job creation on record (going back to 1939). During the past five years private business has added only 958,000 net new jobs to the economy, while the government sector has added 1.1 million jobs. Moreover, as many of the jobs are not for a full work week, "the country ended 2005 with fewer private sector hours worked than it had in January 2001."

McMillion reports that the largest sources of private sector jobs have been health care and waitresses and bartenders. Other areas of the private sector lost so many jobs, including supervisory/managerial jobs, that had health care not added 1.4 million new jobs, the private sector would have experienced a net loss of 467,000 jobs between January 2001 and December 2005 despite an "economic recovery." Without the new jobs waiting tables and serving drinks, the US economy in the past five years would have eked out a measly 64,000 jobs. In other words, there is a job depression in the US.

McMillion reports that during the past five years of Bush's presidency the US has lost 16.5% of its manufacturing jobs. The hardest hit are clothes manufacturers, textile mills, communications equipment, and semiconductors. Workforces in these industries shrunk by 37 to 46 percent. These are amazing job losses. Major industries have shriveled to insignificance in half a decade.

Free trade, offshore production for US markets, and the outsourcing of US jobs are the culprits. McMillion writes that "every industry that faces foreign outsourcing or import competition is losing jobs," including both Ford and General Motors, both of which recently announced new job losses of 30,000 each. The parts supplier, Delphi, is on the ropes and cutting thousands of jobs, wages, benefits, and pensions.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02012006.html

[magellan]

13. Good for him.

I happen to agree with his opinion, but he and the rest of the corporate media shills are still blocked in this house.

All truth, all the time, backed up with well-researched facts, or nothing.