Here's what a Patriotic Poltician looks like

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Too bad these are NOT American Politicians worried about the AMERICaN workers

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c9cf9f7e-c603-11dc-8378-0000779fd2ac.html

German politicians ditch their Nokias

Last updated: January 18 2008 21:09

German politicians on Friday declared that they were ditching their Nokia mobile phones as anger grew over the Finnish company’s decision to move a factory from Germany to Romania at the cost of 2,000 jobs.

Peer Steinbrück, finance minister, accused Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, of “caravan capitalism” while a spokesman for Angela Merkel, the chancellor, said that she was expecting “more information” on Nokia’s motives.

Many Germans appeared shocked at Nokia’s announcement earlier this week that it was moving its plant from the western city of Bochum. The company has often been praised for keeping Germany’s last mobile phone plant long after others shifted production abroad.
The agriculture minister, Horst Seehofer, said he was switching to another brand of phone “because I don’t like the way they are doing this”.

Economists, meanwhile, shook their heads at the fuss.