WP: Dems Seize on Offshoring as Campaign Issue

[DeepModem Mom]

Democrats Seize On Offshoring as Campaign Issue
Focus on Jobs Lost During Recovery
By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 6, 2004; Page E01


....Democrats have made it clear that the stagnant labor market in general -- and the offshoring of jobs in particular -- will be a central focus of the 2004 campaign season. The Bureau of Labor Statistics yesterday effectively gave them another month to hammer away, with a February jobs report that showed only 21,000 new jobs were added in a month when 392,000 job seekers gave up and left the labor market....

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"Whenever someone tells you the market will take care of things sooner or later, the one thing you know is they're talking about someone else's job," said Gene Sperling, a director of President Bill Clinton's National Economic Council, now advising Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

And for Bush, the transition period happens to be overlapping a re-election campaign. "This outsourcing stuff is huge," said Republican pollster Frank Luntz, "and it's upsetting everybody."....

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The legislative tide on the jobs issue may already have turned toward the Democrats. The Senate this week took up legislation to replace export subsidies ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization with tax breaks for business, especially for domestic manufacturers. The bill has become a difficult testing ground for Republicans against a Democratic onslaught....

(The article adds that even Republicans "have become critical of the White House's response.")


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34891-2004Mar5.html

[4dsc]

1. Jobs, the economy and Social Security

should be want democrat's talk about from now until November..

Not gay,guns and God!!

[Young Socialist]

2. you got that right, "it's STILL the economy, stupid!"

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