"I'd heard about this this morning - a memo that the Obama people were
shopping around to the press - but didn't get the full story, or the full flavor
of the story, until just a few minutes ago. I thought Obama was simply going
after Hillary for supporting outsourcing of jobs, or for Hillary being supported
by people who are in favor of outsourcing. And sure enough, the Obama memo talks
a good deal about outsourcing, though in ways that do seem to skirt the line of
racism or at least xenophobia (calling her 'HILLARY CLINTON (D-PUNJAB)') and
noting that 'Hillary Clinton Accepted Almost $60,000 In Contributions From
Employees Of Cisco Systems, Which Laid Off American Workers to Hire Indian
'Techies.'' (I was a bit uncomfortable with the use of the word 'Indian' over
and over and over again in the memo.) But I still wasn't sure that we had moved
from outsourcing to racism until we hit the paragraph about all the money and
support that Hillary has received from 'Indian-Americans.' Sure, the rest of the
memo deals with how one of Hillary's top Indian-American supporters is allegedly
a bit shady, and that's fair game, but the memo is about more than that. The
memo is clearly trying to make the point that Hillary gets lots and lots of
support from Indian-Americans, and apparently there's some kind of problem with
that. I guess because their kin back home are stealing all of our good white
jobs. (No word on whether they're sleeping with our women too.)"
Globalism should not and cannot be understood as a struggle between Americans and Indians/Mexicans/Chinesse over jobs. While there are some jobs that are lost as they move over seas, by giving jobs with real money earning potential, creates American jobs by creating a market for American goods and services. Labor is not a zero sum game, where every gain made in India is a loss for Americans, that is just not the case. I have had my reservations about Obama for a while, but this pretty much seals up the fact that I will not be voting for him.
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