Obama Calls India Creator, Not Poacher, of US Jobs
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — Searching for help half a world away, President Barack Obama on Saturday embraced India as the next jobs-creating giant for hurting Americans, not a cheap-labor rival that outsources opportunity from the United States.
Fresh off a political trouncing at home, Obama was determined to show tangible, economic results on his long Asia trip, and that was apparent from almost the moment he set foot on a steamy afternoon in the world’s largest democracy. By the end of the first of his three days in India, he was promoting $10 billion in trade deals — completed in time for his visit — that the White House says will create about 54,000 jobs at home.
That’s a modest gain compared with the extent of the enduring jobless crisis in the United States. Economists say it would require on the level of 300,000 new jobs a month to put a real dent in an unemployment rate stuck near 10 percent.
Yet to Obama, the bigger picture was the lucrative potential of an unleashed trading relationship between India and the United States. He seemed comfortable and energized away from Washington, days removed from the GOP’s election thumping.
“For America, this is a jobs strategy,” Obama said of his emphasis on trade, although it could stand as a motto for his 10-day trip. He is spending Sunday with young people in Mumbai and then heading onto meetings in New Delhi, the capital, before shifting later in the week ahead to Indonesia and economic talks in South Korea and Japan,
In India for the first time, Obama quickly got a sense of riches and poverty, history and tragedy.
His helicopter ride into this bustling financial center took in some of the country’s slums. His luxury accommodation for the night, the Taj Mahal hotel, was one of the sites of a terrorist rampage in Mumbai that killed 166 people. Obama and his wife, Michelle, paid quiet tribute to the 31 people slain at the hotel, looking over their names inscribed in a memorial before meeting with victims’ families and survivors of the shootings.
“We visit here to send a very clear message that in our determination to give our people a future of security and prosperity, the United States and India stand united,” Obama said from an outdoor plaza, the soaring Gateway of India and the Arabian Sea behind him. “We’ll never forget.”
Indian commentators seized on the president’s failure to mention Pakistan, India’s neighbor and bitter rival. Pakistan was home to the 10 assailants.
The president also celebrated the life of a personal hero, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a father of Indian independence and model of peaceful activism. The Obamas spent time at the home-turned-museum where Gandhi once lived. They signed personal messages into the guest book and pledged to bring their daughters, Sasha and Malia, back one day.
Obama directly addressed the belief in the U.S. that India is robbing Americans of jobs. He acknowledged that many Americans only know trade and global commerce as the source of a job shipped overseas.
“There still exists a caricature of India as a land of call centers and back offices that cost American jobs. That’s a real perception,” Obama said. He noted the real concern in India that American corporate giants, if welcomed, would run mom-and-pop stories out of business and upend Indian culture.
Seeking to dismiss all “old stereotypes,“ Obama said the relationship between the countries is ”creating jobs, growth, and higher living standards in both our countries. And that is the truth.”
In the fallout of the U.S. elections, in which Democrats lost control of the House and Obama’s ability to connect with his country was called into doubt, the president said one lesson learned was the need to set a better tone with business leaders. He was effusive on that front in Mumbai, gathering with top U.S. executives and studying up on their commerce with India.
“Just around this table you’re seeing billions of dollars in orders from U.S. companies, tens of thousands of jobs being supported,” he said. “We’re a potential that has barely been scratched.”
The White House arranged for four American chief executives who are in India for the occasion to brief reporters traveling with the president. They played up the importance of India as a trading partner and praised Obama’s decision to come to the country to underscore that point in person.
Progress will take much more than public understanding. India’s infrastructure remains an impediment to progress. And Obama’s challenged India on the sore spot of shrinking its own barriers to trade and foreign investment. But his larger message was one of the united values and missions of the two largest democracies in the world.
Making that point, Obama even generated some laughter at his own expense, offering a reminder of the troubles at home.
“Our countries are blessed with the most effective form of government the world has ever known: democracy,” he said. “Even if it can be slow at times. Even if it can be messy. Even if, sometimes, the election doesn‘t turn out as you’d like.”
Onkar Kanwar, chairman of India’s largest tire manufacturer, Apollo Tyres, said he appreciated the symbolism of Obama’s coming to India during his first term and choosing to visit Mumbai first.
“Ties are getting closer and closer, which needs to be done. … This demonstrates his commitment to another large democracy where he sees a lot of synergies,” Kanwar said. “He’s done all right.”
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Associated Press writers Ravi Nessman in New Delhi and Erica Werner and Erika Kinetz in Mumbai contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS source of quote at end to Kanwar, not Tyres.)
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Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:51amI patiently await the arrival of Tata Motors to our shores. Just what we need, another flimsy econobox crap car on par with the Volt.
Report Post »This President is a dish of Carter with a side of Nixon, and FDR as dessert. I continue to weep for the future.
Disturbed Crew
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:46amAs once again Obama mis-reads the election results. We must send a message to those in Washington on what they MUST do for the American people….
Report Post »1. Stop the bleeding (NO more jobs outsourced)
2. Remove all the diseased tissue before gangreen sets in farther (ie, dismantle EPA, NEA, SEIU, Federal reserve, you get the point…) I have changed Mike Church’s quote on one of his T-shirts, “600 federal agencies at the botom of the Potomac” is not a good start, its a “slow start”
3. An enforcement to Article five of the constitution that will ensure that ANY law or legislation that come out of Washington MUST be adapted and approved by a majority of the states.
4. A vigorous enforcement to the political oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of thr US. You break your oath, we remove you from office. In my little world words DO mean things.
5. Elect politicians of honor and integrity (Hey allow me my pipe dream) and support them when they are good and hold their feet to the fire when their not.
6. Remove Obama from office. He has had more than enough chances to get it right. It has nothing to do with his race or his religion but every thing to do with his character and ignorance.
briar101
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:41amWho wants to bet that this $10B will also go to prop up unions? Even if it did create 54,000 jobs, thats over $185,000 per job! I HOPE we have some CHANGE left after this man is done.
Report Post »mamawalker
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:49amThat point is always forgotten but you are so right!
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:00amChange is ALL we will have left. I really hate thisPOTUS
Report Post »neverending
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:03amAdd your comments
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:35amTreason.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 11:11amthis is not treason, you idiot!
India is our natural ally! Obama’s ignoring of india has been the real problem.
India is free, peaceful, secular, western-friendly, capitalistic and an emerging counter-weight to China. Not having a close relationship with them is foolish.
Obama is actually doing something good here.
Don’t let your hatred of the man cloud your judgement for what is good for the nation both economically and strategicly.
Report Post »where is JG
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:27pmbutcher…. TTTRRRREEEEAAAAASSSSSOOOOONNNNNNN… How you like me now nikka
Report Post »patriotteapress
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:32amThis so called “man child” president just don’t get it. Never has! Never will!
I have first hand experience. Indians in America making a wage here won’t buy things made in America because of the price. How will they buy it there on the Indian wage? If you think that technology shared won’t result in technology lost, you got your head in the sand.
How often do you think they are going to reorder aircraft. This is a symbolic bandaid to benefit “big” labor.
On another front, Pakistan (Pock e stan) has got to be fuming over this trip. No one on the left is worried about creating more terrorist now when it‘s BO’s show!
On yet another front, I do feel safer with BO out of the country! The rest of the world loves him so much I don‘t see why they don’t just keep him.
Report Post »Polish_Sensation
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:20amI am starting to believe that Obama is truelly trying to destroy America. And this Bernanke dude who one day after the mid-term elections announces another 800billion+ in quantitive easing to devaluate the American dollar by 20% is another example of the madness of these Progressive Commies. They want to devaluate the dollar so that all currencies balance out and then they will be able to create one currency for everybody. Once again this does nothing but hurt America, what the hell are we doing, there is over 250 million of us and only (rough estimate) 100 thousand of them. We have to start doing something real soon or were doomed…yes I do watch Glenn Beck and I believe every word he says.
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 2:58pmHere’s the scary part- after the QE takes effect the commies I mean democrats will blame the republicans/tea party for the falling dollar and inflation!
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 9:12am@polishgirl, good for you , do you want to know why America must be destroyed ?
Report Post »http://www.zimbio.com/David+de+Rothschild/articles/6/Wo+Owns+Federal+Reserve+Rothschilds+Bank+England
We can’t have a one world govt with the USA still being number 1.
Docroxall
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:19amThe ONLY thing that Asia (India and China) offers is cheap labor, and India, not for long as the influx of capital into their economy is raising labor costs. If we are going to get back into manufacturing again, the manufacturing labor in this country need a reality check. You aren’t worth, anymore, what your contracts say. Renegotiate them, oh, and we ALL better get used to a base economic lifestyle more like China and India…base substistance with few luxuries. This is the “New World Order” that was snuck in by the economic Illuminati, while we slept. It’s likely too late.
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 11:15amyou really don‘t know what you’re talking about.
India IS our ally!!!
wake up!
just because they don‘t look like you doesn’t mean they are not on our side.
Report Post »sodun
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:15amIndia’s not a poacher. Our Gov‘t is the one that’s so hostile to business that‘s so hostile to business it’s more profitable to go half way around the world and have someone else do it!
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A personal THANK YOU to Govern – oops, sorry – I mean GENERAL Motors for stabbing us in the back with a new factory in MEXICO after We The People pulled their asses out of the fire.
troyvar
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:10amI imagine that India will want to be able to export their products to us on a tax-reduced basis. Is this going to be 90/10 trade agreement?
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:04amIndia and China will continue to manufacturing leaders because their hands are not tied by their Governments and there are no unions. Who’s going to win? Not us. We need a President that will fight for our jobs at home…not pander to India for our job creation.. obama why don t you give away the kitchen sink too , you are trying to destroy American as fast as you can …
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:49amHas he mentioned any of his environmental crap? He ties our hands with crap and tax, meanwhile the rest of the world thumbs their noses at us and continues to pollute far more than us. What a disaster this man child is!
Report Post »jose wasabi
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:04amIndia is a creator of jobs for America??? Obama is really out of touch and going to completely ruin us.
Report Post »Carol_in_Florida
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:16amI agree! And if India is going to create jobs for the US, then the next time I need customer service for my computer, my phone, my wireless router or other electronics, I want to speak to someone whose first language is English.
Report Post »HillCountryPatriot
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:02amNon-union employees have no “HOPE AND CHANGE” with Obama if he is re-elected in 2012. This guy is a national disgrace and job-killing menace!
Report Post »jColes
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:55amMr. Obama is delusional and very, very naive…54,000 US jobs will most likely actually result in 54 executives reaping huge personal gains while more and more products on our shelves will bear the “Indian Made” label.
If Mr. Obama were a private citizen no one would know of or care about his mental illnesses (plural) but as he currently lives off the public trough his state of mind becomes our concern…a national defense and security concern…
2012 can’t come soon enough.
Report Post »seemsew
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:16amDon’t fall for the delusional, naive, inexperienced, immature painting of Obama. He’s doing exactly what he has intended all along. Totally transform this country….with as much speed as he can because many are awaking up to this fact. I make no excuses for him or his actions. India isn’t taking jobs…Obama is giving them. China didn’t take..Clinton gave. George Bush remains silent.
The Bush silence bothers me alot. If you see wrongs you open your mouth and announce that you see trouble. If you witness a crime you call the police. Silence will not solve anything..thus, the Tea Party. It would have been nice if Bush had jumped out there and said that he would have welcomed the Tea Party during his tenure, but maybe if he is more progressive, he would not. He’s an interesting study.
Report Post »Polish_Sensation
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:54amThis is off topic, but how does the NWO benefit the States, and if it does not then why the hell are we letting it happen? For all the unemployed start doing things to expose these insanities.
Report Post »Spinaltap32
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:50amThis President is starting to really spook me!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:13amYes friend, you have a spooky potus….but it is going to get even spookier.
Report Post »where is JG
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:25pmyou said it. he is a spook
Report Post »Spinaltap32
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:47amIndia and China will continue to manufacturing leaders because their hands are not tied by their Governments and there are no unions. Who’s going to win? Not us. We need a President that will fight for our jobs at home…not pander to India for our job creation
Report Post »michelepfaff
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:46amThis is all part of his master plan of killing America. We have to ensure he is a one-term prez.
Report Post »mnpacman
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:42amAdd your comments
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:41amOK. That is one damn gross fingernail.
Report Post »rgalunas
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:42amLets give away all our military technology too! Not just our money??? This president does not know how to protect our HOME! I love India but i wont give my house keys to them and say come over anytime you want see what i have and what i am doing.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:10amWhy not, Clinton gave China super computers and technology…why wouldn’t barry want to do the same with India ?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:17amExactly … Clinton and Obama are of the same “cloth” .. Obama is just more blatent in his Progressivism … i.e. Marxism.
Report Post »mnpacman
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:40amPerhaps Mr Obummer would have his telestrater give him the statistics of unemployed IT professionals in the US that have lost their jobs directly because of companies outsourcing to Infosys and Tata (et al.). How about the bottom lines of all of the US resource organization that are destroyed when these companies weasel their way into corporate boardrooms. There is no way any project performed by or in conjunction with these Indian companies save American companies money. The only way these Indian companies exist is because of tax breaks (continually favored by the GOP and also by the Dems) for these companies exist. Please, please, please legislators, make the playing field level for American companies again and get rid of the policies that are sending jobs overseas. Remember, once an Indian, a Chinese, or any other national receives a paycheck in their country, those dollars will never benefit the USA.
Report Post »Spinaltap32
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:51amThis President is really spooking me.
Report Post »where is JG
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:24pmSPinal tap: WHAT PRESIDENT, WE HAVE A PRESIDENT? BUSH IS BACK? WHAT? The OBlamination POSPOTUS is a president? NO WAY. He is a NIGHTMARE not a PRESIDENT.
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:35amHe has to claim that India is creating jobs for the US instead of India being an outsourcing nation that is taking our jobs. That way for every job that is outsourced over to India, Obama can claiim another job created for us.
Report Post »Polish_Sensation
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:34amActing as if we need India is a slap in the face to all American’s, it makes us look desperate and weak. Although I have nothing against the people of India, I am livid about the amount of jobs they are taking from American citizens. They copy and buy all our technology then sell it for 1/10th of the price. Once India becomes wealthier then America they will turn there back’s on us and treat us like third-tier individuals. This New World Order has got to stop, it benefits every country except the USA.
Report Post »I don’t mind have bi-lateral relationships with other countries, I just rather keep our technology and industry secrets to ourselves, let the Indians create there own economy.
DJR
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:17amHe’s going to have to show some tangible economic results if he has any hpoe for a 2nd term.
Report Post »AmericanSince1619
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:41amDon’t discount what the republicans might be able to do to ease uncertainty with businesses regarding taxes and health care. That alone could stimulate the economy and none of it would be Oblabbers doing.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:47pmIt won’t happen…..at least, not in the United States.
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 2:00pmGeez, I hate to hear those words roll off of anyone’s tongue. It doesn’t matter what he does before 2012 this guy needs to go and needs to be voted out with a solid majority. He is to the United States what Alan Grayson was to Florida and he needs to GO!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:16amDoes O’barry think that all 2 billion Indians are stupid? We have lost millions of IT jobs to India. I speak from personal experience. This is just as pathetic and vapid as his speeches to the Muslim world.
Next he’ll be telling us that Iran is a peace loving country and Ahkmadinnerjacket should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
BTW: did I mention that Keith Olbermann is no longer on MSNBC?
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:27amThis is probably the next wave of job transfers from the professional ranks. India has been loading up with Engineers and Doctors for years. Probably part of the commies plan. So if you are and engineer or a doctor, grab your boots, your next in this kill America plan. Maybe he will call it Obama care support that we must have in this emergency situation. Everything that he does is an emergency you know.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:00amI don‘t blame India for outsmarting our dimwhit’s in Washington. The Chinese and every other country on this earth have been doing it for years. Our dimwhit’s in Washington are smart at deceiving us but always roll over when it comes to other countries. Somehow we always get the wrong end of the stick. If we could only follow the REAL deals that are being cut.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:38am@Polwatcher
The good news is that most of O‘barry’s speeches are transparent attempts at manipulation. This is no different. The only people who believe this nonsense are those who make up his personality cult.
BTW: did I mention that Keith Olbermann is no longer on MSNBC?
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:50amHKS your doctors comment made me think. This might be the way they intend to drive down the cost of medical care. Import doctors from India that will work for a lower wage. This would answer the problem of the so called shortage. Better take an intrepreter with you to the doctor.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 8:52amObama panders to his audience no matter where he is. He really thinks every one loves him and worships the ground he defiles.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:06amIt is also worth noting that all of those engineers and doctors that India has been loading up on were educated here in American schools. Take a head count at any university and see for yourself. Gee, I wonder who paid for that??????
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 11:11amMy son just had an interview with a company (FL) and told him he required six figures. They didn’t blink – the rub was, they hire for India. He does sub-contract work and trained workers when AT&T moved their tech dept…..to India. So not only is our manufacturing leaving but our technical people are being paid very well to leave too.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 11:38amThe steel, textile and furniture industries did the same thing in hiring American technicians to go overseas to train, manage and more or less be robbed of American methods and technology. A company can spend a hundred years designing and perfecting a process and India or China can get it for free by hiring a few people to train theirs. We have been robbed blind from every corner of our history. Development technology and the process in any business sector is our greatest competitive advantage and our biggest loss. What we spent two hundred years developing we gave away to the competitor and he used it to take our jobs and our way of life. Is this a great country or what.
Report Post »RamboTheDog
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:17pmIm in IT also – because of offshoring and the massive amount of H1B Visas allowed my wages have been cut by 25% in the last 5 years – 45% over the last 10.
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:27pmIndia invested $11 billion in America last year. You don’t think that created a few jobs?
Report Post »Rn mom
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 2:34pmHKS- Radiologists in India read our xrays/etc. and send reports back to America. They’ve been outsourcing this service for years- some jobs can easily hide anywhere on the globe- and be part of reduction of work here in the US.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 3:10pmRN MOM
Don’t look now, but your doctor will soon be there on the other end of a computer screen.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:13amWhat’s amazing is that they are still “advertising” for people out of work here to go back to school for IT .. just like in the 1980′s when many of us who are now out of work did … how are these people going to pay back those student loans when they realize they have been had!
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:03amI had seen this earlier:
“India’s purchase of so-called “dual use” technologies that could be used for civilian or military purposes, and removing a few of the last remaining Indian companies on a so-called “entities list” of groups that face restrictions on doing business in the U.S.
The commercial deals he announced include the purchase of 33 737s from Boeing by India’s SpiceJet Airlines; the Indian military’s plans to buy aircraft engines from General Electric; and preliminary agreement between Boeing and the Indian Air Force on the purchase of 10 C17s.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/05/obama-flies-to-india-looking-to-boost-us-economy/
GE, we bring evil to life.
It goes on to say SUPPORT around 54,000 jobs, not create them.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:25amThank you…I read the same thing in several different news reports. It stated plainly what GE would gain, but the interesting part was all the reports said the money “will support about 54,000 jobs in the US”. I took this to mean the unions will get the money. This is the first report I have seen that says anything about creating jobs.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:43amthe only thing India created was Barry and mass poverty.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:52amThe only way possible for any jobs to be created here is for the government to subsidize manufacturing like Japan and Korea did in the 70s. That allows the selling of products at low prices and the cost of producing them here is more than they are worth. They call it “exporting unemployment” Japan was able to destroy our steel industry that way and then Asia picked up on the same tactic and finished them off. Followed by walking in and buying up the bones of what was left. So what there is left is owned by Europeans and they bought it for a song. The same is happening with all our industries, subsidies the killing of American industries, buy them cheap when they die and own all the business cheap. Text book attacks. Our government helped them do it with IRS, FDA, OSHA, EPA and lots of regulations. The unions helped them mightily and they are doing it right now. In the Clinton days it was said to be done with bags of money that was openly joked about in the media. Every administration in the last 20 years has had a part in it at differing degrees. You know what they say in Washington, “money talks and will buy you anything” Al Gore is the poster child for the death of American industries and the Chinese loved him.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 7:56amSince “free” trade policies began, our industrial/manufacturing base has gone down the crapper. It’s time to stop the insanity of tax breaks to relocate offshore, reestablish tariffs, so as to make it a level playing field. The labor unions have also helped to price us out of the market.
Report Post »The major downside of the Republican party is that they believe in free trade no matter what. They need to wake up!
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:24amMr Obama is still clueless about even basic economics, his idea of creation of jobs in this case will most likely fall to the unions, as others have mentioned; or he will attempt to nationalize the aerospace industries as he has with government motors and then ‘create’ the new jobs as those that belong to government employees.
He fails again to comprehend that the reason jobs are fleeing overseas from here is that with the way our government is strangling the employers, they will ship jobs to where they can find the best way to make a profit.
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Report Post »HKS
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:25amNote on free trade, It’s not free trade for us. We compete with no one that has the limitations, regulation and tax load that we have. If we make anything here we don’t start out the cost at zero. In some cases we have more cost in place than the product is worth worldwide before we even start. Bottom line, it’s not free trade, we are playing with a stacked deck.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 9:38amIn the O’s mind create and save mean the same thing. It is important to note also that all 3 of these “major” contracts were already in the works and in at least one case, the announcement was postponed until the O was in India. Is it not typical that this man travels halfway round the world to “mourn” the loss of 31 people in a terrorist attack, yet cannot/will not find the time to do the same for the victims of Ft. Hood and in fact, refuses to use the words terrorist, jihadist, Islamic extremist to describe the event? Further, he or one of his minions has the military report sanitized so that none of those words or, indeed, any reference to faith is not included in the document.
Report Post »Look at what he has said and to whom he has said it and ponder this scenario. In my opinion, O is not planning to run for re-election for a second term. He and his puppet master-Spooky Dude with help from their ally, Maurice Strong, are using these four years to set the O up to replace Ban Ki-Moon at the UN…
silentwatcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 10:57amgoes to india at 200 billion day and MAY have created 54000 jobs? WTF. Jobs that came from America, as well. Ignores American beliefs because HE doesn’t think the populace is right? This man is NOT working for America,,,,absolutely not. His only intent is on campaigning for the U.N. and probably has an eye on a ‘particular’ U.N. seat. Anyone care to guess which U.N. seat??? Those that voted for Obama still think he’s what America needs? or what ‘other’ countries need at America’s expense/demise. He gets voted in again in 2012,,,,,,I’m leaving leaving America (after many generations in America) because it will be apparent the MAJORITY of Americans obviously are in line with the same thinking as Obama. The U.S. will be finished.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 11:27amMaybe the idea is to outsource to India, then they can outsource the jobs to us!! There you go ! that’s how the jobs are created,,,,,,,I finally got it now.
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 12:25pmIndia is a former colony of England, so his visit makes sense to me he is not there to help the US he is there to transfer technology just like Clinton did for the Chinese. He see‘s India the same way he see’s Kenya a victim of English oppression. What jobs are created in the US from this trip will go as payback to those who donated money to get him elected. The rest to Unions and to transfer some of what wealth is left in the US to India, Obama does not care about high unemployment in America as far as he is concerned we deserve it, remember India is still viewed by the Left as a third world country despite it’s economic success. India will benefit from the military use of Technology and Obama gets to continue weakening America’s industrial abilities. The cost of this trip also figures into his beliefs, he is spreading wealth and employing thousands of Indians at the expense of the tax payers or what’s left of the tax payers in this country. Exit question ? does anyone think he knows it ****** us off when he and his wife flaunt their extravagant life style in front of us.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 1:11pmIt looks like Obama is arming India. That is worrisome, because it means he realizes that Pakistan is going to the Taliban, nukes and all — “all,” meaning precious American lives wasted under his command. Obama’s diplomatic skills are a pathetic zero. His Nobel Peace Prize is an AFFRONT to America. What a callous coward. We won’t forget either, Barack Hussein.
OH, and thanks for explaining that your trip to India is really another of your cr*p-filled stimulus plans.
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on November 7, 2010 at 4:53pmThis is commerce, and at first glance it looks positive…but, It is just first installment on political debts owed by Obama to General electric and the UAW. Big,big contributors.
Report Post »We need all we can get, but call it what it is, please.
Join the national association for abolishing political correctness-the NAAPC. No dues, no obligations but to call it like it is.
Damn, I thought he runnoft, for good. (Does this mean he‘s comin’ back?)
Robert W
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 2:39amCreator of jobs…..hahahahahah
Report Post »ru12
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 4:13amIf GE is evil, then pass the word, DON’T BUY ANYTHING WITH THAT NAME”. Look in your garage. Did YOU buy American? We can stop some of the outsourcing by refusing to participate through our purchases! Read all the labels! BUY AMERICAN when you can, even if it costs more. How long can you go on this crusade? I have gone YEARS on major purchases. My Liberal friends say they don’t care. Do my Conservative friends?
Report Post »APROUDVETERAN
Posted on November 8, 2010 at 11:13amYears ago I worked for Grumman Aircraft, now Northrop Grumman. When I was employed with Grumman it was a NON union manufacturing and Engineering company. No employee wanted any part of any union. It was a GREAT company to work for with benefits and pay that was equal to or better than union companies that Grumman competed against.
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