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In reply to the discussion: Show of hands, fellow Democrats. How many of you would choose to let your job go overseas? [View all]Romulox
(25,960 posts)21. She's about the worst spokesperson for her cause that can be found, which makes me smile.
There are some frightfully intelligent people out there hell-bent on promoting this stuff.
Thankfully, none of them post on DU.
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Show of hands, fellow Democrats. How many of you would choose to let your job go overseas? [View all]
Zalatix
Jun 2012
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My point exactly. If no one wants to experience it then why would we not oppose it vigorously?
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#3
Depends. Do I have that thing where Jeff Bridges makes my Hyundai payments if I lose my job???
Romulox
Jun 2012
#4
How about a show of hands for letting your job go to a right-to-work state like Alabama?
pampango
Jun 2012
#7
If you actually subscribed to the theories you present, you'd have two hands and both feet up.
Romulox
Jun 2012
#9
Many of us already live in right-to-work states. Your woefully off-topic question is off-topic.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#12
I thought the topic was losing your job to outsourcing. My reply is only 'off-topic'
pampango
Jun 2012
#13
You're still off-topic. The topic is about jobs going overseas, not another state.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#14
"You don't even bother to deny" that "you support discrimination against American workers".
pampango
Jun 2012
#22
The polls I post are Pew polls. "Misguided" is in the eye of the beholder. Protectionism has a lot
pampango
Jun 2012
#34
And there it is. Anyone who disagrees with pamps is similar to both McCarthy and the Euro Right.
Romulox
Jun 2012
#35
Are you arguing that the Euro Right does not favor high tariffs? Or that teabaggers do not
pampango
Jun 2012
#37
Still trying with your mythical FDR/free trade propaganda historical revisionism?
brentspeak
Jun 2012
#40
Pew, Schmew, your polls are still inaccurate no matter how many times you post them.
Zalatix
Jun 2012
#36
Oh, just post some crap about how Marine Le Pen once expressed some sympathy for workers,
Romulox
Jun 2012
#19
She's about the worst spokesperson for her cause that can be found, which makes me smile.
Romulox
Jun 2012
#21
There is no reason for any Congressperson whose district is outside a right-to-work state...
Chan790
Jun 2012
#44
Workers Solidarity is sooooo old fashioned and it threatens the establishment.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2012
#25
Part of the reason you're missing a 'perfect storm' of outrage from outsourcing...
randome
Jun 2012
#16