53,670 jobs and a way forward for America with Asia and the BRIC Nations

[TheBigotBasher]

Rachel Maddow got it spot on - the American Right have constructed a massive lie machine, the problem is they do not even care about the consequences of those lies.

So what is the President doing in Asia costing the poor hard-pressed taxpayers of the US lots of money?

Delivering jobs. 53,670 of them.

* SpiceJet an Indian airline will purchase 33 737s from Boeing * The Indian military is confirming a deal to purchase Aircraft engines from General
Electric * The Indian Air Force is looking to buy 10 C17s from Boeing.

53,670 people will be in work in the US as a result of this.

That of course is from the first day.

Of course as this all happening at a crucial meeting of APEC, the President could have decided not to go and let Boeing and General Electric fend for themselves.

There is also the little issue of an unstable Afghanistan and its influence on Pakistan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wants rapprochement with Pakistan and as the US looks towards exiting that troubled Country, India has very valid concerns about how that exit could affect them.

Michelle Bachmann suggests those concerns could all be dismissed through a tele-conference call. Pakistan and India are both nuclear States. An unstable Pakistan is a threat to the whole World and that can not be dismissed over a tele-conference call. The US needs that rapprochement with Pakistan as much as India does.

The US President is wise to ignore the screams of the right. Even if their noise machine for this trip costs him support. The BRIC nations, Brazil, Russia, India, and China are a massive market with increasing wealth. Their economies are buoyant and by 2018 their aggregate GDP will exceed that of the USA.

The BRIC nations are not some Third-World partnership that can be ignored. They are not just an emerging market. They are a market that has very much emerged and as a result they present the US with new opportunities to supply their growing middle classes.

[SunsetDreams]

1. Rachel gets it and so do I

[yellerpup]

2. Kick this for visibility.

Strong statement and good refutation to the claim that any contact with India is a giveaway of American jobs. Our President doesn't do teh stoopid.

[Blue_Tires]

3. i didn't know we were even still building 737s

good news in any case...

[vaberella]

4. sigh....Rachel....even people on this site marginalized this and found a way to discredit.

The right aren't the only ones working hard.

[suzie]

8. +1

[avaistheone1]

5. India has pretty much killed off IT workers in this country.

53,670 people getting some jobs sometime somewhere in America hardly makes up for it.

Try again Rachel.

[BeFree]

6. IT workers were lucky

They got in at the bottom doing easy work with big pay. So they were easily undercut.

As for India... they have 3 times the population of the US and are wanting what Americans have.
If we can produce what they want, that is one heck of a big market.

It makes perfect sense for us to want to sell them our fancy stuff. GObama.

[avaistheone1]

7. Easy work? We are not talking about flipping burgers. Most of these Americans

and Indians IT workers have advanced degrees that cost quite a bit money and time. I don't care what the population of India or China is. There populations were always larger than Americas. That is no excuse to undercut American workers so that big CEOs like Carly Fiorina can have 5 yachts, 3 jets and hundreds of millions of dollars while American workers are thrown out of work and their homes. The Democrats need to protect American jobs or they can forget 2012.

Indians have a right to have whatever they want but not at the expense of the American workers and stability of our country.

Keep it up and GObama may be going back to Illinois in 2012.