Thread: United States Chamer of Commerce in favor of shipping American jobs overseas

of course this is from the Rachel Maddow Show......when has anything ever been valid and fair and balanced from her? NEVER!

honestly i was impressed at how the entire channel calmed down after olberman was fired, but now they're all back with their snide incorrect rhetoric, except lawrence o'donnell.....he probably won't last long there because he's now reporting more of both sides....that's totally against the GE Corp/MSNBC agenda

Originally Posted by irish_2003

of course this is from the Rachel Maddow Show......when has anything ever been valid and fair and balanced from her? NEVER!

so that changes the content of the video?

outsourcing also isn't counted towards unemployment, that data isn't tracked by the BLS so the actual unemployment in the US is much higher than quoted in the news...

i refused to watch anything from her or ed schultz......they are not journalists, but news entertainers.....they're like the WWE versus olympic wrestling.....one side is fake and the other isn't

Originally Posted by irish_2003

of course this is from the Rachel Maddow Show......when has anything ever been valid and fair and balanced from her? NEVER!

honestly i was impressed at how the entire channel calmed down after olberman was fired, but now they're all back with their snide incorrect rhetoric, except lawrence o'donnell.....he probably won't last long there because he's now reporting more of both sides....that's totally against the GE Corp/MSNBC agenda

Do you watch Rush and Beck?

GOP, U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Beat Back Bill To Combat Outsourcing

Senate Republicans beat back an effort by Democrats Tuesday to end tax breaks for companies who send jobs offshore only to import products back into the United States. The House has passed a series of similar legislation over the past several weeks, as Democrats work to portray Republicans as in the pocket of Big Business at the expense of workers, the economy, the trade deficit and the budget deficit. That message was muddied, however, by the defection of four Democrats and Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman, who voted against the motion to end a filibuster.

"I wish this election would be a simple referendum on this issue," Dick Durbin, the Senate's number two Democrat, said on the Senate floor Monday night. "Who in the world believes that we should be rewarding corporations in our country for shipping jobs overseas?"

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is one powerful answer to Durbin's query. The Chamber, which represents businesses in the United States, has aggressively battled the effort to reduce outsourcing. During the debate over the stimulus, the U.S. Chamber fought efforts to include a provision that would encourage taxpayer money to be spent on products made by domestic companies. It opposed the outsourcing bill, arguing in a letter to the Senate that "the concept of economic growth is not a zero-sum game. Replacing a job that is based in another country with a domestic job does not stimulate economic growth or enhance the competitiveness of American worldwide companies."

In 2004, Chamber head Tom Donohue made the case that outsourcing shouldn't be a concern because only "two, maybe three million jobs, maybe four" would be lost. "American companies employ 140 million Americans," Donohue said in a CNN interview that Chamber opponents are happy to remind him of. "They provide health care for 160 million Americans. They provide training in terms of 40 billion a year. The outsourcing deal over three or four or five years and the two or three sets of numbers are only going to be, you know, maybe two, maybe three million jobs, maybe four."

The bill included a payroll tax holiday for companies that bring jobs back from overseas, ended tax breaks for plants that shut down to go elsewhere, and blocked companies from deferring their tax bill year to year by keeping money out of the U.S.

The U.S. Chamber, in a letter to the Senate, outlined its opposition to the measure and said that it may use the vote to rate how friendly to business a senator is in the lobby's annual scorecard. The bill, argued the Chamber, would "significantly curtail [tax] deferral [of earnings], reversing longstanding tax policy and subjecting American worldwide companies to immediate double taxation on the earnings of their foreign subsidiaries. Limiting deferral would hinder the global competitiveness of these American companies, impede U.S. economic growth, and ultimately result in the loss of jobs - both at the companies directly impacted and companies in their supply chains."

Sens. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) broke with their party to vote to continue the filibuster, as did the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus (D-Mont.).

What American can approve of this?
Maybe if I was getting money under the table I would approve of it.....

Who cares, we have a health care law to defeat.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Do you watch Rush and Beck?

with a big grain of salt.....I personally enjoyed Beck when he was on HLN, but since moving to FOX he's too melodramatic for my taste.....Rush is much too deep into his own opinions that sometimes he bites off too much.....

my conservative likes are Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity, Greta, Vicki McKenna and a few others

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

Who cares, we have a health care law to defeat.

bingo......this is extremely personal to me since I'm going into the medical field after i get licensed......

Originally Posted by irish_2003

bingo......this is extremely personal to me since I'm going into the medical field after i get licensed......

You started this thread.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

You started this thread.

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LAM is the OP

Originally Posted by irish_2003

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LAM is the OP

OOpps wrong thread.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

OOpps wrong thread.

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Originally Posted by DOMS

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I am tired..LOL....no sleep.