Thread: The Clintons Sold Out America

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The Clintons Sold Out America

Diane Alden
Friday, Aug. 10, 2007

In 2004, two powerful members of the U.S. Senate instituted something called the India Caucus. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Texas Sen. John Cornyn put together an alliance giving special status to foreign interests including what appears to be sale of U.S. visas (student and work) in exchange for favors, campaign contributions, and God only knows what else.

The Senate India Caucus quickly signed 32 members of the Senate. The 2007 110th congress has a total of 37 senators in that caucus, including 18 Democrats, and 19 Republicans. In the House, 176 congressmen belong to the India Caucus, 115 Democrats and 61 Republicans including my own 11th District Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. I had no idea West Georgia had such a vested interest in India or its needs.

This association and Gingrey's vote in favor of CAFTA suggests whose interests far too many Democrats and Republicans now represent and it rarely includes their district or America's long term future.

Does your representative belong to India? Visit these Web sites to find out:

http://www.usinpac.com/members_house_caucus.asp
http://www.usinpac.com/members_senate_caucus.asp

In 2006, the New York Daily News reported Bill and Hillary Clinton's financial statement including their associations with Indian government and American business interests.

During the Clinton and Bush administrations encouraged the corporate transference of high tech jobs to India and elsewhere. Meanwhile, the U.S. visa went on sale to the highest foreign bidders. It appears India won. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. H-1B visas have gone to Indian foreign nationals.

Without question it is a corporate inspired replacement of Americans, including workers on all ends of the spectrum.

The corporate/government "partnership" in our replacement has profoundly impacted our future and that of U.S. born computer scientists, other sciences, and the entire range of engineers.

One corporate culprit is multinational Cisco Systems. Several years ago, Forbes reported in "A Tale of Two Cities" that Cisco was laying off $60,000-a-year "techies," while hiring new employees in Bangalore, India. Meanwhile, Indian companies like TaTa Consulting managed to aid in further depressing wages and prospects of American workers by bringing in low level computer workers on the cheap. They had political support for this.

The Clinton financials include:

# Hillary accepted $60,000 in contributions from employees of Cisco System; Clinton's Presidential Exploratory Committee took $39,450 from Cisco employees during the first quarter of 2007.

- Cisco employees have also donated $18,900 to Clinton's Senate committee between 1999 and 2006.

- Bill Clinton received $300,000 from Cisco for two speeches, 150,000 on 5/18/06 and 8/17/06 (Hillary Clinton 2006 Financial Disclosure Report; 3,4).

- In March 2007, the Economic Times wrote, "[Clinton] has roped in New York-based hotelier Sant Chatwal as co-chair of her recently formed presidential exploratory committee to run for the 2008 White House race." He is also creating an organization called Indian Americans for Hillary 2008.

There is much more New York Daily News obtained from Clinton financial statements and it is worth a look. Go to the NY Daily news' Web site for more.

Hillary Clinton and John Cornyn assert the Senate India Caucus is about better relationships with India, security, trade etc. In fact, the U.S. Senate and a significant bloc in the U.S. House have become shills for India, China, the Saudis, et al., and corporate interests. The political sellout includes providing India and Indian workers and students with hundreds of thousands of visas to address shortages that do not exist.

As of 2006, Indians receive more work and student visas than any other single nation. During fiscal year 2006 an official count of 43,167 H-1B visas were granted to Indians. The visa cap is 65,000 for the year. Although there is no real cap on visas for students and those who go to work for government related organizations.

In total, 358,734 temporary visas were issued to Indians in U.S. fiscal year 2006. This is a 14 percent increase from the previous year, according to U.S. consul general Peter Kaestner, who added that during the same period over 30,000 immigrant visas were also granted to Indians. (The 300,000 figure may include extensions — see www.workpermits.com.)

There was a 78 percent increase in the number of H-1B visas issued during the first two months of fiscal year 2007 over the same period last year.

U.S. consul Kaestner says that IBM is planning to hire 50,000 IT professionals in the next two years "and we expect one-third of these to come from India" (workpermits.com).

In 2004, Sen. Clinton told an Indian newspaper she represented 250,000 Indian Americans and looked forward to playing a key role in stimulating stronger economic relations between the two countries. She recalled her successful interactions with a delegation of Indian CEOs in upstate New York some time ago. One of the Indian companies was TaTa Consulting a primary supplier of American jobs to Indian workers.

On the other hand, Republican Cornyn claims the relationship between India and the U.S. increases trade opportunities and helps fight the "war on terror." Just recently, the Bush administration did a deal with India on nuclear issues in exchange for mangoes. John Cornyn has been treated like royalty in several visits to India. Meanwhile, American computer programmers, scientists and engineers are sold down the Ganges.

Sen. Cornyn has also been the mastermind driving the job related Skil Bill. This is an American job-killing effort the powers-that-be desperately wants. The continued demand for "guest worker amnesty" is the tip of the iceberg. The Skil Bill will expand numbers of work and student visas into the U.S. for "shortages" in nearly every single professional occupation; shortages only the irresponsible political, academic, and corporate establishment predicts.

What is happening? Since the end of World War II, American prospects have been sacrificed and used as a foreign policy tool to buy or influence "friends."

Subsequently, our post Cold War relationships with India and China, for instance, have nothing to do with selling American manufactured clothing, shoes, or car parts to India or anywhere else. If this were not the case, there would not be a lopsided trade deficit of nearly a trillion-dollars favoring foreign nations; there would not be crushing public and private debt, and no threats from China to annihilate the dollar if we object to their monetary or political double-dealing.

In the bargain, the establishment gets to elect a new people; perhaps one having no stake in the nation-state known as America: Maybe we will get that global "corporate sponsored" village after all.

Next time: Comparing apples and shortages. Is America too dumb to go on?

Contact Diane Alden at alden@newsmax.com.

And now hungry hillary is bad for seconds! Vile

Yep this is not surprise............

Clintons screw America by selling Technology to China


Bushes screw America by giving away our Sovereignity


To make it simple: WE ARE BEING SCREWED ON BOTH SIDES

I don't know why these Clintoons don't go find some other country to rule over, if they're so darn power hungry. Seems it doesn't matter if they rule over Americans or Indians, or anyone else in between. Wish they'd go find some island to rule, far, far away.

Our Presidents have been selling out this country since Nixon when to China. I think each one has his job to do in this horror.

Hillary will sell out to anyone for anything! There is a name for people like her, but I can't repeat it here!

Yes and it was Bill Clinton(with support from dems and repubs) who gave us NAFTA and GATT. Traitors!!!!

There is some wary support for Clinton in the Presidential race!
To me it looks like she is to radical for the Democratic party!
But where is Obama story for his crazy stance?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... #more-1403

WASHINGTON (AP) — Looking past the presidential nomination fight, Democratic leaders quietly fret that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at the top of their 2008 ticket could hurt candidates at the bottom.

They say the former first lady may be too polarizing for much of the country. She could jeopardize the party's standing with independent voters and give Republicans who otherwise might stay home on Election Day a reason to vote, they worry.

In more than 40 interviews, Democratic candidates, consultants and party chairs from every region pointed to internal polls that give Clinton strikingly high unfavorable ratings in places with key congressional and state races.

"I'm not sure it would be fatal in Indiana, but she would be a drag" on many candidates, said Democratic state Rep. Dave Crooks of Washington, Ind.

Unlike Crooks, most Democratic leaders agreed to talk frankly about Clinton's political coattails only if they remained anonymous, fearing reprisals from the New York senator's campaign. They all expressed admiration for Clinton, and some said they would
publicly support her fierce fight for the nomination — despite privately held fears.

The chairman of a Midwest state party called Clinton a nightmare for congressional and state legislative candidates.

A Democratic congressman from the West, locked in a close re-election fight, said Clinton is the Democratic candidate most likely to cost him his seat.

A strategist with close ties to leaders in Congress said Democratic Senate candidates in competitive races would be strongly urged to distance themselves from Clinton.

"The argument with Hillary right now in some of these red states is she's so damn unpopular," said Andy Arnold, chairman of the Greenville, S.C., Democratic Party. "I think Hillary is someone who could drive folks on the other side out to vote who otherwise wouldn't."

"Republicans are upset with their candidates," Arnold added,"but she will make up for that by essentially scaring folks to the polls."

In national surveys, Clinton's lead over chief rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has widened. Her advantage is much narrower where it counts most — in early voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire. In matchups against potential GOP presidential candidates, Clinton leads or is tied.

The Clinton campaign points to those figures to make a case for her electability in a constant stream of e-mails, letters and phone calls to jittery Democrats across the country. A key to their strategy is to give Clinton's candidacy a sense of inevitability
despite her negative ratings, which aides insist will go down.

"All the negatives on her are out," said Clinton's pollster and strategist Mark Penn. "There is a phenomena with Hillary, because she is the front-runner and because she's been battling Republicans for so long, her unfavorability (rating) looks higher than what they will eventually be after the nomination and through the general election."

What the Clinton campaign doesn't say is that her edge over potential Republican candidates is much smaller than it should be, given the wide lead the Democratic Party holds over the GOP in generic polling.

The problem is her political baggage: A whopping 49 percent of the public says they have an unfavorable view of Clinton compared to 47 percent who say they hold her in high regard, according to a Gallup Poll survey Aug. 3-5.

Her negative ratings are higher than those of her husband, former President Clinton, former President George H.W. Bush and 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry at the end of their campaigns.

A candidate's unfavorability scores almost always climb during campaigns. If the pattern holds, Clinton has a historically high hurdle to overcome.

"For Hillary, who has been on the scene for so long and has had perception of her so ground in … there's no question it will be really hard for her to change perceptions," said Democratic pollster David Eichenbaum, who represents moderate Democrats in GOP-leaning states.

Her baggage is heaviest in those states. Private polling conducted in Colorado, for example, shows that Clinton's negative rating is 16 percentage points higher than her favorability score.

Colorado is a state Democrats hope to win in the 2008 presidential race. It also has an open Senate seat, with the Republican incumbent opting not to seek another term and Democrats targeting it.

Obama has much lower unfavorability ratings than Clinton, though Democrats say he may have his own problem — that of race. It's hard to measure the impact of being the first party to put a black at the top of the ticket, Democratic leaders said.

Some Democrats hold out hope that Clinton can turn things around.

"She's got a tough road to hoe because people have formed opinions of her," said Rep. Tim Mahoney, a freshman Democrat from Florida. "But I can and will tell you that when I see Hillary get out there with the public, she changes people's minds. She's not the stereotype that people know her to be."

In Indiana, where three freshman Democratic congressmen are fighting to retain their seats, Crooks said Clinton would be a burden in districts like his full of "gun-toting, bible-carrying, God-loving, church-attending" voters.

"She is just so polarizing," the state lawmaker said. Clinton would drag any candidate down 3 or 4 percentage points, he said.

"I'm one of these Democrats who has some legitimate reservations, because the Clintons have in the past invigorated the Republican base," said Carrie Webster, a leader in the West
Virginia state House who served as executive director of the state party when Bill Clinton won the 1992 West Virginia primary.

"But the fact that so many prominent Democratic males are getting behind her at this early point makes me a little more confident that she could overcome some of the more obvious
hurdles," she said.

Nebraska party chairman Matt Connealy said he believes Democratic candidates will be able to avoid a Clinton backlash.

"I probably would have given you a different answer a month ago," he said, "and maybe will give you a different answer a month from now."

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