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Common Dreams reports:
In yet another reminder of how corporate-friendly the Trump administration has been—despite campaign pledges to defend American workers and "buy American, hire American" rhetoric—a new study out [April 25] reveals that the president continues to reward U.S. companies who ship jobs overseas.
According to the analysis (pdf), conducted by Good Jobs Nation along with Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, "the flow of federal contract awards to major offshorers has continued unabated since Trump's inauguration."
The outsourcing of American jobs to other countries is a major issue for American voters, and helped propel President Donald Trump's victory in a number of economically distressed rust-belt states.
Despite this, as many as "56 percent of the top U.S. firms awarded the largest taxpayer-funded contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2016 engage in offshoring", the report notes. Further, 41 of the top 100 federal contractors--which in 2016 received a combined $176 billion in taxpayer dollars--have shipped jobs overseas and "many continue to do so today".
[...] "Even though he's signed over 60 executive orders during his first 100 days, he has yet to use the power of the pen to stop corporations that receive taxpayer dollars from shipping American jobs overseas", said Joseph Geevarghese, director of Good Jobs Nation.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Friday April 28 2017, @12:40AM
Ahhh, you're just wrong about my statements then.
1) The "light raping" is not counter-intuitive, oversimplifying, or untrue. I mean that in a literal sense, just like how Genghis Khan literally raped the world for awhile. Perhaps the word pillage would be best, but that doesn't quite capture what is happening with the yet again massive wealth transfer to the top 1%. It IS a form of rape against our country when no representative democracy exists, and those in power abuse it to amass and hoard wealth. The people are just as victimized. The term rape is actually the correct term when referring to land resources and our activity with nature. Maybe that's wrong, but it's grammatically correct with its usage having precedent. Like how Abraham Lincoln participated in the mass raping of our lands and resources with the robber barons of old.... which he used to work for... as a lawyer...
Trump is just repeating a known working formula.
2) White Nationalism is the absolutely most perfect phrase to describe the primary motivating factor of Trump's rise to power. I'm not apologetic about that, and I'm deeply fucking pissed that I woke up one day to find out that most of my fellow white guys are fucking bigots and racists that were just being silent for years. At least seemingly so, otherwise how did Trump get elected on a platform of pure nationalistic hate*? It IS White Nationalism that played a very significant part, and many of the values they espouse are fucking abhorrent. Instead of calling it White Nationalism, some people are being more intellectual and calling it racial security/insecurity. Yes, I tease these racially insecure people and enjoy their pain. Perhaps me not taking the high road, but fuck it, there are no high roads left in America. They are the "basket of deplorables", and they can kiss my fucking ass.
Yes, there is chunk of Trump supporters that are not like that. I realize that, and to them I do apologize. However, much like moderate and loving Islam, they're fucking silent right now. The moderate Trump supporters that I know? They are all fucking pissed off too and greatly disappointed in their choice. So Trump supporters as a group are contracting, not expanding.
3*) Crooked Hillary is most certainly a thing outside of Twitter. I was calling that absolute cunt crooked before Twitter took off. She IS crooked. She's the reason why we have Trump. She's the reason why I couldn't vote for Sanders, or at least she made sure it wasn't a fair fucking fight. I'm somewhat down for locking the bitch up. Just prove her corruption with her foundation and the pay-to-play bullshit that happened with her and the Saudi's IIRC. Not crooked outside of Twitter? Surely you misspoke....
I'm not recognizing my own blabber because we both got confused over context, who was replying about what, etc. :) Honestly, I was very puzzled by that response and thought it was purely in reaction to the "pussy grabbing" comments.
Your post makes a lot more sense when connected with my original comments, and no, I don't misconstrue you taking me to task for that with your support of sexual predation.
I apologize if you thought I did.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.