Unions Press Clinton on Outsourcing Of U.S. Jobs

I wonder how many Democrats supporting Hillary Clinton know that she is no friend of labor. After all, her top political advisor, Bill Clinton, was a big supporter of NAFTA during his years in office. I'm sure they would argue during 1990s the unemployment rate was low, as it is now. The truth is the outsourcing of American jobs, condoned by Mr.Clinton, left us with lower paying service jobs. As a consequence more and more Americans are having trouble ends meet and increasingly amassing large debts:

When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to New Delhi to meet with Indian business leaders in 2005, she offered a blunt assessment of the loss of American jobs across the Pacific. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she declared. "Outsourcing will continue. . . . We are not against all outsourcing; we are not in favor of putting up fences."

Only Slick Billary can have two positions on one issue and get away with it so easily:

The two speeches delivered continents apart highlight the delicate balance the senator from New York, a dedicated free-trader, is seeking to maintain as she courts two competing constituencies: wealthy Indian immigrants who have pledged to donate and raise as much as $5 million for her 2008 campaign and powerful American labor unions that are crucial to any Democratic primary victory.

Is she going to get away with this obvious duplicity? Will the unions go ahead and do what they've done all along, follow their masters, the Democratic Party, in a typical slavish manner. Will they endorse Hillary because they think she will win the Presidency and then reward them with scraps from the table:

But the Clinton camp has been pressed by labor leaders on her support for expanding temporary U.S. work visas that often go to Indians who get jobs in the United States, and it has been queried about the help she gave a major Indian company to gain a foothold in New York state. That company now outsources most of its work to India.

"They're obviously defensive about it," observed Lee, who has taken part in such meetings.

Clinton declined repeated requests for an interview about her views on outsourcing. Her campaign advisers, however, say she believes there are no inconsistencies in the comments she has made here and in India or in her actions as a senator.