Obama promotes champion of job outsourcing to his National Economic Council

[Larkspur]

David Sirota reports

"More to Promote Outsourcing Than Nearly Anyone Else In America"
Remember back in in 2004 when the Bush administration issued a report trumpeting the benefits of job outsourcing? And remember how Democrats correctly went apeshit? Well, let me pose a question: What's worse - issuing a report applauding job losses, or putting one of the biggest outsourcing advocates in America in a top government job?

Unfortunately, this isn't a hypothetical - it's very real. Check out this op-ed in the engineering trade journal EE Times. It's by Rochester Institute of Technology professor Ron Hira, one of the nation's leading progressive voices on the issue of jobs and trade:

On the very same day he was meeting with "CEOs outsource American jobs"--a phrase he repeatedly and derisively used during his campaign, named McKinsey's & Co.'s Diana Farrell to his National Economic Council, the inner circle of economic advisors in the White House. Farrell has done more to promote outsourcing than nearly anyone else in America.

Farrell was the lead author of the infamous "Offshoring: Is it a Win-Win Game?" Now she'll be operating at the highest levels of the Obama administration. Her phony "study" did more damage than any other in the debate over offshoring. And her propaganda was used to mislead the American public about the true impact of offshoring.

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This is the kind of action that get me frustrated with Obama. Kind of hard to believe in "Change" when Obama hires the same frauds who helped screw our economy in the first place. Not all frauds were Republicans.

[antigop]

1. We're screwed. n/t

[Metta]

2. He really does have bad judgement with many of his picks.

... seems like the progressive Obama of the campaigns is now the center/right Obama.

[Donnachaidh]

4. is it bad judgement?

After so many of these nominations, I'm not able to shrug this off as bad judgment. I'm wondering exactly what the overall plan was, that included all these *boo-boos*.

[Metta]

8. Good point. I'm wondering about these right wing picks and the damage they've already done.

Doesn't seem to fit the template of the campaigning Obama.

[Maven]

3. There will be a crew here shortly to explain why this is a good thing.

Please hold.

[wroberts189]

7. We got no choice but to wait and see ...

I do not like them either.

But I will not give up on him yet ... he may know stuff we do not. you have to admit he is very smart and so far has been very good.

I do not want to see a repeat of the DLC so called "centrist" bluedog reign.. But if you have read his writings and his bio you will see he is very progressive.

give him time... he has said over and over again ..he picks those who he thinks can get his job done. They report to him.


I hope I am right. For all of us.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Thank You For Your Concern.

[wroberts189]

6. Obama campaigned on FAIR trade ..he will keep his promise. nt

[Romulox]

9. He's had rightwing corporate shills around him since the campaign: Goolsbee, Furman, Summers, et al