Losing a job is no laughing matter

by: Feral Cat

Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 13:21:26 PM MST

Really, what an offensive statement Clinton made to the tens of millions of American and Mexican workers who lost their jobs and saw their wages destroyed thanks to NAFTA - a deal pushed by the Clinton administration. You want to talk about showing how utterly out of touch you are, that's how you do it - you laugh and say you barely remember the debate over the very trade deal that has is destroying America's middle class. And then after you stop laughing, you go to the Senate floor to vote to expand NAFTA, as Clinton says she's going to in the next few weeks.

I am still steaming about this and so are labor leaders.  I just listened to the head of the USW and he's not laughing either.  One million jobs are gone. They told people we would ship the "crumby jobs" overseas and keep the good jobs".  That's arrogrant right there.  There is nothing crumby about manufacturing jobs.  And now the further joke is that the "good jobs" are also being shipped overseas.