Chicken Pluckin' Fools

What does the population of Los Angeles and plucking chickens have in common?


_"There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."

This is what King Bush had to say about the American workers.

Some of these workers have a different spin on that:

Three weeks ago, Dawn Zimmer became a statistic. Laid off from her job assembling trucks at Freightliner's plant in Portland, Ore., she and 800 of her colleagues joined a long line of U.S. manufacturing workers who have lost jobs in recent years. A total of 3.2 million — one in six factory jobs — have disappeared since the start of 2000.

"They are building a multimillion-dollar plant in Mexico and they are going to build the Freightliners down there. They came in and videotaped us at work so they could train the Mexican workers," said Zimmer, 55, who had worked at Freightliner since 1994.
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"It is pretty crystal clear to our members that when their plant closes down, they know where their jobs are going," said Thea Lee, policy director at the AFL-CIO.

Princeton economist Alan Blinder, who was vice chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Clinton administration, says the number of jobs at risk of being shipped out of the country could reach 40 million over the next 10 to 20 years. That would be one out of every three service sector jobs that could be at risk.

Those lost manufacturing jobs are fueling an intense debate over globalization — the increasing connection of the United States and other economies.

That debate will play out in Congress over the coming months as the Bush administration tries to muster the votes needed to pursue its free-trade policies.

So, what do these two seemingly different things have in common? The ever growing insanity of the GW administration. Roughly the population of LA is the amount of factory workers who lost their jobs to outsourcing since Bush took office. Remember "Outsourcing is good for America?" I guess 3 MILLION people may disagree.

Now, the witless wonder makes another astute observation about chicken plucking and the American working class.

Can we say "out of touch" here? He really doesn't know, does he? He can't see the suffering he's caused, and we all how how much suffering that is, in the last six years. He can't feel for the working moms and dads just trying to feed their kids who find themselves unemployed - thanks to his "outsourcing is good for America." When does this end? When do the American people, want they want, need, beg for matter? Will they ever with this crew? Or are they that heartless? Does only their financials matter?

One more question. Why isn't this blaring from every television and radio station? Murdock?