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from Tales from the Trail:
Loss of U.S. jobs to China becomes powerful election issue
In Pennsylvania, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Joe Sestak, accuses his Republican foe Pat Toomey of favoring China over hard-working Americans.
In a new website, the AFL-CIO pointedly tracks the loss of U.S. jobs to China and other cheap-labor countries.
With about a month to go more the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and their friends are pushing as a potentially pivotal issue the export of U.S. jobs.
They believe, or at least hope, it will resonate with American voters worried about the economy and their own financial futures.
A memo by consultants Stanley Greenberg and James Carville suggests Democrats could use concern about the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to help stage an "October surprise" and retain control of the House and Senate in next month's election.
Campaign messages on behalf of protecting U.S. jobs -- while ripping into Republicans who support trade pacts and tax breaks that jeopardize them -- can be powerful.
In one of its lasts votes at the end of September before taking a recess for final election campaigning, the House overwhelmingly passed legislation that would allow the United States to seek sanctions against China and other countries that gain trade advantages by through currency manipulation.
U.S. Hispanics riled over immigrants’ healthcare exclusion
By Tim Gaynor
President Barack Obama’s signature battle to overhaul the United States’ $2.5 trillion healthcare industry to extend coverage and lower costs for Americans has met fierce opposition from Republicans.
But a move by Democrat backers to exclude 12 million illegal immigrants from buying health coverage and restrict the participation of authorized migrants has drawn the ire of U.S. Hispanics — a bloc that overwhelmingly turned out to vote for Obama in last year’s election.
Hispanic lawmakers and activists are riled by the bill pushed in the U.S. Senate by Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, which denies illegal immigrants the option to buy health insurance and places a five-year wait period on legal immigrants before they can access health benefits.
“When we effectively bar the immigrant community from buying private insurance, we force them further into the shadows of our society, and we relegate them to emergency room care at the highest cost to taxpayers,” Rep. Luis Gutierrez, an Illinois Democrat, told a conference call with reporters this week.
Obama has so far been popular with U.S. Hispanics. His backing for comprehensive immigration reform, which seeks to allow millions of illegal immigrants in good standing a chance to pay fines and become citizens, helped win him two-thirds of the Latino vote in last November’s election.
I would like to propose an idea. Since lately the teaparty and Republican shave been bashing hispanics or all races.In addition undermining our contibutions in this country which is quite significant. We should have aday without hispanics day. A day where no hispanics goes to work. We march the street all over the country tating how impoetant we are for the mere survival of this country.In order to state the important piece we make in this country. If this tea part and Republican think thery are big and powerfull they have not seen anything yet. We own more smalol buisness we proivide an essential balnce to minoritie representation in this country our vote and voice counts. Lets think about this people this is the year we let our voices heard. Imagine and a day without hispanics in the workforce. What would happen. We are strong and smart ethinic which is very politacly inclined. Lets think about it.
from Raw Japan:
Watching the giants fall
Some elections count more than others, and never more than when a longstanding dominant party is sent packing. I've been lucky enough to witness turning points in four countries on two continents.
France, India, Italy, now Japan -- all have rejected one-party dominance for the rough and tumble of alternating majorities. In each case, I was fortunate to behold history.
Japan's election on Sunday marked the end of an era that started not long after World War Two and saw Japan rise from the ashes of defeat to a global economic power. Japan's revival took root in an iron triangle locking the Liberal Democratic Party, bureaucrats and Japanese industry.
Now the LDP is tasting the same bitter fruit as paramount parties in other countries whose voters decided a few decades in power for one party were enough. The circumstances in each country were different, but the democratic impulse was similar and the result much the same.
In 1981 Francois Mitterand became the first leftist president of France since the Fifth Republic was created in 1957. I watched as ecstatic French voters poured into the streets after Mitterrand's victory. France then trembled as this imperious socialist did the impossible by sharing power with his Gaullist rivals.
The Indian National Congress spearheaded that nation's independence movement and then became the dominant political party led by the Nehru-Gandhi family. Eventually corruption allegations caught up with Congress and it had to yield power first to Hindu nationalists, then to a coalition of upstart leftists and regional parties.
I remember the sight of chastened ex-Congress leader P.V. Narasimha Rao standing in the dock in a Delhi court accused of corruption charges, for which he was later acquitted.
I have gone through the synopsis of the subject under discussion and the comments of my learned commenter friends. I could assimilate the gist of the huge anomalies of previous US governments and the heart burning agony of the young AMERICAN generation standing at the edge of a devastated economical, financial, and commercial catastrophe of the country with a bleak future in the country once known as the mighty country of dream.
The worst is yet to have emerged but shoed up earlier when the congress passed the bill against china on retaliation to china’s devaluation of their currency. US always thought it should dictate others to do whatever it says not considering that everything has its limit.
In addition, reply to only one case only now showed up and in future will show up one by one to all the cases. US had always played a hard game with China and China took things always coolly without giving in.
Now it is replying to all that US did in previous day’s with it.
Most unfortunately Bush regime wittingly or unwittingly stabbed at the back of the Nation by going to war on the Advice of a particular country and some criminal minded advisers who all pulled the rope of the US flag down to earth if not forever but at least for some decades to come.
China is a quiet dragon, it does not chew it gulps and swallows. First, it made America its market, became the master of important commercial institution, also made the Bush regime to dismantle its industrial complex and establish the same in china for financial, and job assurance.
Now China gave the jolt in Chinese way which in one go has hit the nerve center of the West financial, industrial, commercial industrialized sector including the most delicate sector of main Political issue. It is not the jolt for Democrats but will prove to be a morbid jolt for any government that steps in, in any future time for some decades to come.
From the look of things on ground, China will be a hard tusk master in its role as world super power, which until now it did not show up. South East Asia is already on alert and is preparing to confront the Jolt of China’s move forward..
US may not bother about its election but there are thing that US will soon find necessary to amend it to walk together with China.
Prominent experts of different discipline opined it is not late to resolve all issues in diplomatic level with China that will help both in the end.