Schwarzenegger vetoes bills to prevent outsourcing of jobs

[kskiska]

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed legislation Wednesday that attempted to prevent the outsourcing of California jobs to foreign countries, claiming the measures would erect "artificial barriers" to economic growth.

"There is a right way and a wrong way to expand economic opportunity in California," he said in a statement on one of the three vetoed bills. "The wrong approach is to implement measures that restrict trade, invite retaliation or violate the United States Constitution or our foreign trade agreement."

The vetoes were immediately praised by Republicans and the California Chamber of Commerce, which called the legislation "job killers." But Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said the vetoes would send the "wrong message to Californians who look to Sacramento for job protection."

"The governor had a choice: Protect hardworking Californians or protect multinational corporations. He chose wrongly," Nunez said. "Now the people's tax dollars will continue to support jobs in India and Mexico."

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[Eye and Monkey]

1. "expand economic opportunity" - for WHO?

[homerthompson]

2. he is serving his masters well...

arnold is quickly climbing the ranks to be the next *.
making powerful speeches with nice sound bites, and then he goes and accepts special interest money, makes closed-door deals with corporations, and kills things that would help, claiming they don't.
he has become seduced by the dark side of the force.

see here for more arnoldwatch

[alittlelark]

3. My Gov is a perverted

GOP tool. I detest him.

[Dakkon]

4. jeez, Terminator made a bad judgement on that issue.

Nothing news about republicans, really..

*sigh*

[kestrel91316]

5. Wow, what a man! Let's make him president!

[Carolab]

6. how does this fit in?

"or violate the United States Constitution"

in what way does preventing outsourcing violate the Constitution?

Exactly WHOSE Constitution are these people reading, anyway?

[chicagojoe]

11. It must be that "New Constitution" The Radical Right wants to adopt.

Revolution time, for those of us with the courage, anyway.

[Sub Atomic]

15. That was my thought exactly.

[Bran Bal]

16. I am assuming

free association, but that is my best guess.

[Voltaire99]

7. Vee haf vays of not making you verk!

Way to help the middle class, Col. Klink!

[Dakkon]

8. I just sent a email to Arnold

with my feedback & opinion on that. *shrugs* I don't think he will take my words but at least I did something..

[Sandpiper]

9. Ahnuld's Economic policy so far

1) Oppose minimum wage increase

2) Enable companies to outsource jobs


Truly a champion of the working class.

[chicagojoe]

10. Another f-ing puppet. Damn Aryan boot-licker.

What is it with California ? What's their penchant for two-bit actor/politicians all about ????

[oscar111]

12. Surgeon operates in USA patient, from australia..ALL jobs can be sent over

sent overseas.

==surgery, using net cameras and robotic hands, enabled aussie surgeon to operate on a patient here.

robotic hands now make ALL jobs outsourcable . eg, those robotic arms welding cars in Detroit, are the type of robots that can foster outsourcing any job.

The slums of india can now do all our jobs cheaper than we can.

tell all "bush gives tax breaks for outsourcing jobs"

and

"YOUR job can be sent to the slums of India"
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READ IF YOU HAVE TIME, a postscript.....=====
burgers can be flipped by those robotic arms and internet cameras...

====even now, garbage trucks in places, have robotic arms to pluck and empty standardized home trash cans into the truck , operated by one driverman. So dont think you will always have some low level job here.
"6 billionaires, 6 billion starving" is the republican utopia for earth.

[joefree1]

13. State Democratic Party gives us shitty candidates to vote for

We haven't had a decent candidate in decades. However our two Senators rock.

[natrat]

17. how about that

cruz bustamonte lol

[DoNotRefill]

14. Don't forget, he just banned some single-shot rifles...

that happened to be the most effective guns out there against armored limosines that were available to civilians.

Gotta keep those elites safe from the peasants, dontcha know...

[Robert Oak]

18. uses biased study to justify this betrayal

Many of the companies involved in shaping the CPR report have sent jobs overseas, and one key technology recommendation involves expanding the type of work done by a state contractor that already uses three overseas call centers.

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