Blame Dealer: Not all Ohioans Condemn NAFTA.

[HughBeaumont]

http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/03/export.html

Figures they'd write a pro-corporate, pro-Repuke piece on SH-AFTA, which has been an overall loser for the workers of all nations involved and their environments. Looks like this article wasn't very thoroughly researched.

Unlike Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who repeatedly blasted the North American Free Trade Agreement for killing Ohio jobs, the assumed GOP nominee is an unapologetic fan of trade deals who is likely to woo Ohioans by focusing on a brighter side of the state's economy: its growing export business.

(snip)

While arguments over U.S. trade policy have divided mostly along party lines in this year's presidential race, Republicans are hardly alone in celebrating the importance of exports.

Both Obama and Clinton have talked about the importance of increasing U.S. access to foreign markets, and even sharp critics of U.S. trade policy like Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown say they aren't aiming to end trade but rather to change the rules of trade so that U.S. workers benefit more from it.

(snip - here's that ol' Tata thing again. Never mind 80% of Tata's hires are Indian workers)

Eight of Ohio's 50 leading manufacturing employers last year were headquartered overseas, and the Strickland administration - like the Taft administration before it - is trying to woo more foreign companies. A recent decision by the India-based Tata Group, a huge information-technology firm, to open a facility in Clermont County could bring up to 1,000 jobs to southwest Ohio. The state offered Tata incentives worth more than $19 million to locate in Ohio.

Love how the online heading says "Some Ohio Business People are Big Fans of NAFTA". Funny how they didn't talk to the workers of Ohio's once thriving manufacturing and industrial sector to see if they're big fans. My cousins lost their jobs because of this Repuke piece of legislation. No one should wonder why I haven't renewed my subscription to this rag.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Elizabeth Auster, 'nuff said.

Fuckin' toady.

[HughBeaumont]

2. She is. Stephen Koff is also quite the Bewsh line-tower.

I remember his 2004 pre-election article about the "benefits of offshoring", but he used examples that had to do with Direct Foreign Investment, which really isn't the same thing. Naturally, the PeeDee didn't print my LTTE calling him out on this.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Yeah, I'm long since past disgusted

with how such a deep blue county got stuck with such a right-wing waterboy daily. And since Brent Larkin made that nasty, NASTY little fuckweasel Kevin O'Brien his heir apparent as editorial page honcho, there is no end in sight whatsoever.

When Dick Feagler is your rag's most reasonable-seeming columnist, you're in strange territory.

[RB TexLa]

3. "so that U.S. workers benefit more from it."

All you need to know. He's concerned with "me" and not "we".