Republicans demonized them as lazy and stupid. Further, they didn't fit into conservative plans for capital flight to sweatshop nations. They specifically crafted to the treaties to globalize capital but not worker protection, and conservatives blocked any attempt to restrict outsourcing. Further, Republicans have made it harder and harder to unionize (and vilified unions), and unions were the means by which working people obtain some modicum of negotiating strength against business. Finally, the GOP cut taxes on the rich and blocked any attempt to raise taxes, which is the only way to make trade with sweatshop nations a good deal for working people here -- comparative advantage benefits trading nations in the aggregate, but not classes within each nation. Specifically the rich have gotten richer with trade, while workers income has dropped. The way to handle that is to increase taxes on the upper brackets and use that revenue to retrain and educate workers. But of course conservatives blocked that.
You act surprised.
Once again, grand disillusionment on display.
You really wanna know what happened to the "working class" jobs in America? They got shipped overseas. Not because of some trade agreement like Bill Clinton signed into law (NAFTA), but because of regulatory environment, and taxation.
The "greenies" on the left have found power in government, and a friend of the progressive left. (enter Solyndra for example). Because of Global Warming junk science, the government began mandating new restrictions on emissions, which drastically effect working class jobs like manufacturing, coal mining, farming, ranching, forestry, shipping, and transportation based jobs. This drove up the COST of doing business in America, so companies shopped LABOR abroad, and found cheap labor in emerging countries like China, Mexico, latin America.
Now ask yourself, what makes more sense? This bull**** Joaquin spouts out about Conservatives opposing unions? Or businesses who made decisions to export labor to countries because the cost of doing business in America simply got too high?
On one hand, the same liberal retards who shout from the roof tops, "we need to regulate these global pollutors!!!!", are the same liberal retards who bitch about regulating those companies to the point of companies moving LABOR overseas, or production overseas.
Obama mocks the idea of building navy destroyers, which would be done by the WORKING CLASS. He specifically states that his policies will shut down coal plants, which directly kills the working class. He rejects things like the keystone pipeline, which would directly hire working class people. He despises the oil and gas industry, which is predominantly working class people. He wants to regulate CO2 emissions to the point a farmer can't even run his tractor, which directly hurts the working class. Liberals wan't to cut all this pollution, but then wanna whine and bitch about the loss of jobs as a result!
You can't have it both ways liberals. If you are going to save the planet by cutting emissions on these industries, you gotta understand that a side effect is the loss of labor based jobs.
Joaquin has no idea what he's talking about.
