Hey MSM! Manufacturing job losses cripple growth in Pennsylvania thanks to the Clintons!

[zulchzulu]

Hillary Clinton supported her husband's China Most Favored Nation Status legislation, which has been one of the main lapses in legislation favoring the American worker with even more damage than their complicity in NAFTA legislation. Yes, NAFTA made lots of jobs leave Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, but the effects the China free trade legislation, signed as Bill Clinton was nearing the end of his term, have ravaged the US economy and worse.

Hillary Clinton openly supports the same legislation that can be blamed for so many jobs lost in Pennsylvania:

Supports MFN for China, despite concerns over human rights
Clinton supported most favored nation trade status despite concerns about China’s human rights record. “We have to use our our moral and material strengths in ways that serve our evolving interests,” she said. “We have to ask ourselves what hope does the global market hold for the tens of millions of victims of child labor, or for the 100 million street children without homes or families whom I’ve seen everywhere from Brazil to Mongolia who are being left to fend for themselves.”

Source: Dean Murphy, NY Times Oct 20, 2000

http://www.govote.com/Senate/Hillary_Clinton_China.htm

Do the mayors that supported Hillary Clinton today know of her complicity to this issue? Are they that out of it or are they DLC hacks? If you know the REAL STORY about Pennsylvania's economic situation, you'd really wonder what planet these people are on:

The 100 mayors endorsing Hillary today will work in the final week of the campaign to get out Hillary’s message of change for Pennsylvania and the country. Hillary understands the economic pressures of families who have lost jobs, face foreclosures, and can’t afford health insurance or college tuition. She understands what it’s like to roll up your sleeve and work hard. As president, Hillary will fight for the issues that matter to all Americans starting on day one in the White House.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7105

Perhaps that's why only 19 mayors showed up at the event that was supposed to further push the so-called "Bittergate" issue for more media coverage (http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/17741139.html).

But the main issue to Pennsylvania jobs being lost is directly due to legislation spawned from the Clintons:

"There also is a significant point to be made about the risk to consumers. For example, a number of serious product recalls occurred on imports coming from China in 2007. So not only have we shipped Pennsylvania jobs overseas, we are putting the public at greater and greater risk to imports of suspect quality coming from China. The notion that cheaper is better for consumers runs up against law of unintended consequence when consumers are made less safe," McKernan added. "America can't keep running up its 'China credit card' buying foreign manufactured goods. America has got to start producing and buying more products made in Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the United States or we will leave our future generations owing an unsustainable debt to China and our other foreign bankers."

Oddly, the mayors of Reading, Scranton and Wilkes Barre endorsed Clinton. Why? Their economies are in the shitter due to legislation like China MFN.

Although the metropolitan areas of Reading and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and Reading did achieve net employment growth, their increases of 1.6 percent (2,700 job gains) and 0.7 percent (1,700 job gains) respectively were lower than for the Commonwealth as a whole.

Substantial manufacturing job losses were recorded in these communities. Reading lost 9,700 jobs, a decrease of 24.0 percent while Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lost 12,400 jobs, a 27.7 percent decrease.

Link for more above data/information:
http://www.reliableplant.com/article.asp?articleid=11398

Comparisons to NAFTA and China with jobs lost due to those policies in Pennsylvania are illustrated in this study by by the Alliance for American Manufacturing:

A new analysis by the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) found that the U.S. trade deficit with China has taken a surprising toll on Pennsylvania workers. Annual job losses in Pennsylvania due to trade with China average three times higher than losses discussed by some of the presidential candidates and attributed to NAFTA.

"In just a few short years, tens of thousands of Pennsylvania jobs have been shipped to China," said AAM Director Scott Paul. "The presidential candidates are rightly concerned about the potentially damaging effects of unfair trade and they need to focus more attention on our record trade deficits with China, which have cost us more than 1.8 million jobs since 2001. Vigorous
enforcement of our trade laws will ensure American workers and companies have the chance to compete in a fair global market. We call on the presidential candidates to make this commitment to the voters of Pennsylvania."

AAM's analysis of Economic Policy Institute data found that Pennsylvania lost 78,200 jobs from 2001-2006 (all sectors) as a result of the U.S. trade deficit with China . That works out to an average of 15,640 lost jobs per year. Using an identical analysis, AAM found that Pennsylvania lost 44,173 jobs from 1993-2004 (all sectors) as a result of
NAFTA, for an average of4,016 jobs lost per year .

Will the mainstream media report on this or are they too busy masturbating about "Bittergate" to care?

[zulchzulu]

1. What's worse is the Clinton crime family profitting from links to China businesses

Well, there's Alibaba...

As Chinese authorities have clamped down on unrest in Tibet and jailed dissidents in advance of the 2008 Olympics, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has taken a strong public stance, calling for restraint in Tibet and urging President Bush to boycott the Olympics opening ceremonies in Beijing.

But her recent stern comments on China's internal crackdown collide with former President Bill Clinton's fundraising relationship with a Chinese Internet company accused of collaborating with the mainland government's censorship of the Web. Last month, the firm, Alibaba Inc., carried a government-issued "most wanted" posting on its Yahoo China homepage, urging viewers to provide information on Tibetan activists suspected of stirring recent riots.

Alibaba, which took over Yahoo's China operation in 2005 as part of a billion-dollar deal with the U.S.-based search engine, arranged for the former president to speak to a conference of Internet executives in Hangzhou in September 2005. Instead of taking his standard speaking fees, which have ranged from $100,000 to $400,000, Clinton accepted an unspecified private donation from Alibaba to his international charity, the William J. Clinton Foundation.

(snip) Hint here about fake outrage to eliticism from the Clintons:

The Clinton foundation and the former president's library in Little Rock have received millions of dollars in donations from the Saudi royal family and the Middle East sheikdoms of the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar, along with the governments of Taiwan and Brunei.

http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2008/04/bill-clintons-ties-to-china-show-us.html

Then there are is what could be called "Pennsylvania Churchgate":

It began in 2005, when an aide to Clinton helped a young Italian businessman named Raffaello Follieri connected with the business of the former president and his pal Ron Burkle. Follieri had an idea: to buy and redevelop old Catholic churches that were struggling in the wake of sex-abuse scandals. And Yucaipa Companies, which Burkle ran and on which Clinton served as a senior adviser to two funds, came on board.

But the scheme, while in some cases profitable, was also a house of cards. Using the Yucaipa money, Follieri purchased a Philadelphia church that he subsequently let rot. In a separate purchase in Pittsburgh, he instructed the church to be gutted of all its religious objects, then failed to come up with the money needed to finalize the deal.

Follieri's standing was soon on the rocks. In April 2007, Burkle sued the Italian in a Delaware state court for allegedly misappropriating more than $1.3 million. Follieri, he claimed, was spending the money on a lavish lifestyle, including gifts for his movie-star girlfriend Anne Hathaway (of Devil Wears Prada fame). The suit has since been settled. Last week, however, Follieri was arrested and charged with trying to pass a bad $250,000 check.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/10/clinton-firms-deal-with-i_n_96032.html

The more you dig, the more the slime comes through with the Clinton crime family.

[nichomachus]

2. But, hey, they're happy!

[Zodiak]

3. Hey you

Are you nichomachus from the Smirking Chimp?

If so.... :hi:

It's been years since I was on the Chimp, but I remember a lot of names there.

[nichomachus]

6. The very same

I came over here for the food fight -- SC seems so rational and staid -- almost like being back in school. This is much more fun.

[AtomicKitten]

Hey you.

I'm gorewon in a former life at SC.

Nice to see you here. :hi:

[City Lights]

4. K&R

Good stuff, zulchzulu. Thanks for putting this together.

For the most part, the press corpse can only handle sound bytes, so this is probably way too complicated for them.

[zulchzulu]

7. I hope it's brought up in the debate...

I doubt it though...it would be too important.

[zulchzulu]

12. Boy, was I duped...

Imagine a REAL question in the debate...

[azmouse]

5. K&R

[Thepricebreaker]

8. The MSM doesnt talk about things that make sense.... n/t

[constituyente]

9. Why do we forget jobs that are not manufacturing?

Not all jobs are manufacturing-related.

[Imagevision]

10. Last month 50,000 families had their house foreclosed on

[TK421]

11. But Pennsylvania doesn't matter! Obamas got this whole nomination thing wrapped up !

Don't waste a thread on this! :D