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Friday, June 29, 2007

Did the Democrats have a debate last night?
Posted by Jill | 7:26 AM
Of course they did. Unfortunately, I missed most of it, but I did tune in just in time to hear the entire crew of them talk about education as the cure for outsourcing. I hate to tell this bunch of nimrods this, but there are hundreds of thousands of displaced tech workers, many of them over 40, who cannot find jobs due to outsourcing and age discrimination. You can talk about education all you like, but this bunch has only been listening to the corporate executives who stuff their campaign coffers complaining that there aren't enough skilled Americans to fill the available jobs and that's why they need to bring in more H-1Bs and outsource their programming to India. Try talking to the actual tech workers sometime; the people sitting at home learning Flash and C# and ASP.Net out of a book and who still won't be able to find jobs because they don't have practical work experience with these skills.

Only Gravel, Edwards, and Kucinich directly implicated U.S. trade policy. Obama delivered some typical Obama pap about "retraining". I wonder for which jobs he thinks people should be retrained? The tech jobs that are being outsourced? Richardson delivered some typical DLC pap about "education." Clinton was completely disingenuous about this, since she's shown far more interest in what India's business executives say about outsourcing than talking to actual Americans who have been affected.

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