Sen. Ron Johnson backs outsourcing, says it's better to have products made 'dirt cheap' overseas

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Sen. Ron Johnson backs outsourcing, says it's better to have products made 'dirt cheap' overseas

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@SenRonJohnson
: "To me it makes no sense for American workers to produce high-labor-content products. Let the billions of people around the world do that and provide us these goods — high quality, dirt cheap.”

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[budkin]

1. I'll bet the people of Wisconsin would love to hear that!

What a fucking idiot.

[machoneman]

3. RonJohn has always been a total idiot. I can;t even see why Trumpers backed him as he's....

..been called the dumbest Senator for years. Geez, even in the red parts of WI, they must have smarter politicians to take over for.....
....oh, wait a minute. It is Wisconsin now isn't it?

[LuvLoogie]

19. Because they, too, are fucking idiots.

But these government footmen are experts in bigotry.

[Wounded Bear]

2. You can't drive prices low enough to run an economy on minimum wage as it is...

or on 10-15% unemployment.

[machoneman]

5. All the high tech and financial services are in blue states.

Take NY, Silicon Valley, L.A. and other heavily blue cities and states and they have nothing left in red states, all 'takers' of federal $.

RonJohn's WI has what........cheese?

[Blue_true]

14. Wisconsin once had a lot of spillover jobs from industrial America, auto jobs, auto

parts manufacturing jobs, machine tool manufacturing jobs. Those jobs spun off local service jobs like food service, insurance, healthcare, ect, and paid for services like firefighting, EMTs, teachers, police. Now a lot of the instate industry is gone. What is left are rural economies centered around a declining dairy industry, beer manufacturing, and increasingly well-off bedroom communities-where people work in Chicago and it’s big suburbs and then come home to the bedroom communities. The bedroom communities have a lot of amenities like restaurants, shopping theaters, ect, because money is there - those things provide low paying jobs to rural and some urban people that commute to them.

[ooky]

15. And kringles.

Wisconsin's kringles are very tasty. Yum yum.

[CaptYossarian]

17. Meth is pulling alongside cheese.

I heard from an employee once that Tombstone Pizza workers had been working 7 days a week for a few months because applicants couldn't pass the drug test. That district is as Trumpian as you'll ever see. As red as tomato sauce.

[texasfiddler]

4. Now that's a winning message all republicans should have

[tanyev]

6. Especially PPE. What could possibly go wrong?

[stillcool]

7. I back outsourcing him...and his party

where to is debatable.

[C_U_L8R]

8. "Jobs? We don't need no stinkin' jobs. We got capital."

The arrogance.

[Blue_true]

16. He comes from a very rich family.

His family controls S. C. Johnson, a company that makes a lot of products Americans use almost daily. I doubt that he has seriously worked a day in his life, and he likely has no understanding of why anyone not fortunate enough to be born rich like him would fret about jobs going away, what he knows is that if his family’s company can acquire ingredients cheaply, the profit of the finished products becomes larger.

[CaptYossarian]

18. He's an Oshkosh Johnson who married a wealthy woman.

S.C. is from Racine at the IL border. One of their boys is a rapist.

Unless WI is turning into Rock Ridge from Blazing Saddles, they probably aren't related.

[Blue_true]

21. Thanks. I appreciate the Blazing Saddles imagery.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. Nothing about Mr. Ron Johnson being all American, eh? This should be thrown up in his face on ...

a daily basis.

[SMC22307]

10. OK, this is the sort of thing that might get the "WWC" to vote for Biden.

Democrats need to shout this Johnson bullshit from the rooftops, and let voters know that he's not alone in his beliefs -- his fellow Republicans feel the same way. Democrats -- SEIZE ON THIS!

[Bettie]

11. So, he's against US Citizens being employed

Good to know. Good to know.

That will make a heck of an ad when he next comes up for reelection. Heck of an ad.

[Blue Owl]

12. Here's a little diddy in honor of Ron Johnson

[LuvNewcastle]

13. If he feels that way, he should be working to

pass enough Covid relief to cover everyone's needs. If we have all these jobs to spare, that means we have plenty of jobs here for those who can and will work and capital to pay all those who can't or won't.

[tulipsandroses]

20. How does that fit in with the MAGA message? These people are so damn hypocritical

These bullshit one-liners to rile up their ignorant masses, meanwhile they do the opposite

[gratuitous]

22. We appear to have outsourced a number of Republican Senators

And it's true that they can be bought dirt cheap.