Thread: New ad for jobs, could tie into illegal immigration, etc.

Ads seek protection of steel jobs
By Eric Pfeiffer
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 8, 2006


A pro-steel industry organization has started a new ad campaign promoting candidates who support trade laws protecting U.S. manufacturing jobs.


"Help Wanted: Seeking a political candidate who will do something about the 44,900 manufacturing jobs American workers are losing every month," the ad reads. "A candidate who will get our government to start enforcing the trade laws it refuses to enforce now, so we can stop countries like China, India and Brazil from stealing American jobs. Send resume to: the voters."


The print and radio campaign is from Stand up for Steel (SUFS), a labor-management coalition that includes the United Steelworkers union and steel manufacturers such as Mittal Steel, United States Steel and WCI Steel. The Glover Park Group, a District-based communications firm, produced the ads.


"It's time for these politicians who say they are for the American worker to put their votes where their money is," said Terry Straub, vice president of government affairs for United States Steel. "We'd like to get into the public debate of the campaign."


One union watchdog group, however, says the industry has created many of its own problems. "A long history of poor union leadership has rendered the steel industry uncompetitive," said Sarah Longwell, spokeswoman for Union Facts.

China now produces more steel than the combined output of the world's next four largest producers: Japan, the United States, Russia and South Korea. Critics say that China's restrictive labor laws and state subsidies allow the country to export goods to countries including the United States at a deflated market value.


"American workers are being sacrificed for foreign countries who, frankly, aren't playing by the rules," said SUFS spokeswoman Tracy Sefl.
The ads are running in New York and other states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana and Connecticut. New York has lost more than 165,000 manufacturing jobs during the past five years, part of a U.S. job-export total of 2.8 million, according to SUFS.

"The steel industry has never been more healthy than it is today," said Dan Ikenson, associate director of the Center for Trade Studies at the Cato Institute, an organization that supports free-trade policies. Mr. Ikenson said that while the manufacturing industry has lost jobs, those same workers have been mostly successful at finding similarly paying jobs in the service industry. (I do not believe this! I don't believe most things CATA says.)

If the ads are successful, they could tap into similar voter resentment over national security and labor concerns tied into illegal immigration.
"They are appealing to a demographic we call the 'Lou Dobbs adherent,'" Mr. Ikenson said, in reference to the CNN talk show host and critic of illegal immigration.

http://www.americaneconomicalert.com/ne ... ID=2243002

Mr. Ikenson said that while the manufacturing industry has lost jobs, those same workers have been mostly successful at finding similarly paying jobs in the service industry.

Yeah, as a waiter......!

Originally Posted by gofer

[quote:3gdjs18z]Mr. Ikenson said that while the manufacturing industry has lost jobs, those same workers have been mostly successful at finding similarly paying jobs in the service industry.

Yeah, as a waiter......!

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Good One Gofer!!

Impeach this Government and get US a new one that will:

1. Cancel all free trade agreements

2. Restore Tariffs to Control the Price of Goods Entering the USA

3. Rebuild our Manufacturing and Production Base

4. Tells China, Mexico, Japan and all the rest of them to TAKE A HIKE.

I'm so FED UP with the TREASON TRAVESTY of what these Traitors have done to the fundamentals and foundations of our economy, some days I just can't stand it.

And you know what else amazes me?

That WE, the People of the United States, let it get this far.

Why did We let ONE JOB or ONE INDUSTRY leave this country at the hand of a bunch of polluted corrupt Traitors?

I will be asking myself that question for the rest of my life.

WE should have known what they were up to....I could just kick myself for being so trusting, so blind...for sooo long.

Whew!!

Well....better late than never I guess!

Critics say that China's restrictive labor laws and state subsidies allow the country to export goods to countries including the United States at a deflated market value.

IMHO, the critics would be right. It seems like there was a time, not to long ago, that this country refused to import manufactured goods from communist countries that were known abusers of human rights and child labor. Whatever happend to those days? Are we so wrapped up in this 'free trade' and globalization idea that we completely ignore the suffering and extreme conditions workers in some countries are forced to endure under their government just so we can have low-cost (cheap) goods? Since when does our government have the right to sell off our dignity, honor, and integrity for such a low price? Are we so quick to forget what made the United States the greatest country in the world?

It's bad enough that our President and Congress are hell bent on selling our butts down the river for the sake of corporate America profits - so they can share in the revenues through taxation (the United States has one of the highest corporate income tax rates in the industrialized world), but must they also sell our souls by allowing cheap goods manufactured under duress and abuse to permeate our society? Plus, I have other concerns with goods manufactured in China being sold in the United States. Why in the world would we want to help subsidize the largest Army in the world, especially when that Army belongs to a communist country with nuclear capabilities? Red China is not our friend, but they are more more than happy to feed our insatiable diet for cheap goods. It's all about the money!

I'm no economist and don't pretend to know what negative impacts our economy would experience without China's cheap goods, but I'd certainly be willing to find out. Unfortunately though, it's not going to happen because China owns us! Perhaps the following will explain what I'm talking about:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050301/china.html

After reading the above, you can see why China can fire all the nuclear capable missiles they want without fearing any serious action from President Bush. In my opinion, they are a bigger threat than Iran, but we need China (our government has made sure of that ), but not Iran. We're in this sorry state because our government has been seriously mismanaged for years (by Democrats & Republicans alike).

MW...you are sooooo right.

In my opinion, China will be the ruling entity and that deal has already been made with all the Elites of the various nations involved in Globalism.

The China Model is the Most Economically Efficient....more so than the US or Japan. They are willing to push their workers much harder and deprive them of virtually all freedoms and liberties and do so successfully.

This is why the US Government has allowed China to take over our production needs; to gain the US Dollars and hoard them.

The China Way makes for good drones whereas ours doesn't.

Mexico and all this is just to get the volume of good drone workers into our territory and Canada before the take over by China with full complicity by the US Government.

That has been the plan all along.

Last night on the www.americaneconomicalert.com web page, I read that China took 1st place in exports, outpacing the USA, Japan, etc.

Too many elitists sit around tables, plotting the World's economic situations, think they are so smart and they have no idea what the "regular Joe" goes through...nor do they care.

I would like to see all of these organizations put under, as well as the ACLU and others!

Hi Judy!

The China Model is the Most Economically Efficient....more so than the US or Japan. They are willing to push their workers much harder and deprive them of virtually all freedoms and liberties and do so successfully.

aka. 'Slavery'.