I Believe this is the issue with which Dems could win presidency

And position themselves as the majority party.

White-Collar Exodus

High-Paying Jobs Are Moving Overseas, U.S. Workers Replaced by Foreigners

July 29

Michael Emmons thought he knew how to keep a job as a software programmer.
"You have to continue to keep yourself up to speed," he said. "If you don't, you'll get washed out."

Up to speed or not, Emmons wound up being "washed out" anyway. Last summer, he moved his family from California to Florida for the Siemens Co., makers of electronics and equipment for industries. Not long after, Emmons and 19 other programmers were replaced by cheaper foreign workers.

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http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/Business/jobless030729_offshoring.html

A whole wall of the GOP fortress is made out of labor/management conflict. Buh-bye to the wall, buh-bye to the GOP.

All the rest either support it or are silent. The candidate who picks up this issue will win.

And welcome to DU! :hi:

You're lucky to be in a blue state. Mine is more purple- split pretty evenly Dem/Rep. Although plenty of people would like to claim that it's Jebland (FL.)

...the freepers are worried about just this. I read them this morning, and they think the IT exodus is a real problem for Bush.

:thumbsup:

They're so equal opportunity.

Can't wait till the rich ones realize they're screwed too.

Unless you're uber-rich (top 1%) you're screwed in the long run with B*shes in charge.

Apologies - I cannot remember where I read this, but it was a long article about how Dems and liberals should start repeating the following mantra: CHEAP-LABOR CONSERVATIVES. It totally yanks the rug out from under all this privatizing, big-business, advantage the rich/soak the poor/export the jobs stuff. Big business wants cheap labor. They'll starve the economy, screw the unions, ANYTHING to cut costs and whittle away at the gains that workers have agonized and struggled for years to win. All they care about is the bottom line and the workers who contribute to that bottom line be damned.

If we continue the branding of CHEAP-LABOR CONSERVATIVES, the "foresaken" angry white guy with the endangered job will eventually get the point. The rethugs are not his friends.