{"id":6736,"date":"2012-01-12T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T08:08:11","slug":"obama-honors-insourcers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/obama-honors-insourcers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Honors Insourcers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A hallmark of Republican supply-side economics is the millions of jobs these policies have created.&#160; The difficulty is that they have created them in Latin America and Asia.&#160; Even worse, the method they have used to create them is to rip the jobs from American workers.&#160; For Republicans, corporate profit trumps America\u2019s economic success and the well being of the American people.&#160; Fortunately a few good companies are insourcing jobs.&#160; Barack Obama took time out to honor those companies and commit to incentives to companies to bring jobs back to America.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"12insourcers\" border=\"0\" alt=\"12insourcers\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/12insourcers.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/>President Obama said on Wednesday that he would <strong>propose tax incentives for companies to bring home manufacturing jobs they had moved overseas, and curtail tax breaks for those that keep relocating jobs abroad<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Flanked by executives from the aerospace, chemical and furniture industries \u2014 all of whom are building or expanding factories in the United States \u2014 Mr. Obama declared that the nation was beginning to see the reversal of a long-term trend toward outsourcing. He called the new trend, perhaps inevitably, \u201cinsourcing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re at a unique moment, an inflection point, a period where we\u2019ve got the opportunity for those jobs to come back,\u201d Mr. Obama said in the White House, after meeting with the executives. The American economy, he noted, has added manufacturing jobs for two years in a row, after more than a decade of losses\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/12\/business\/obama-seeks-tax-breaks-to-return-jobs-from-abroad.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video of the event.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LqaR11XWI7M?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The unfortunate part of this is that Obama cannot institute all these policies alone.&#160; He is certain to meet stiff opposition from Congressional Republicans, because they oppose anything that does not help millionaires, billionaires and corporate criminals.&#160; That\u2019s another reason why your vote in 2012 is so important.&#160; If Republicans take control. you can kiss jobs goodbye, because vulture capitalism is the Republican way.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hallmark of Republican supply-side economics is the millions of jobs these policies have created.&#160; The difficulty is that they have created them in Latin America and Asia.&#160; Even worse, the method they have used to create them is to rip the jobs from American workers.&#160; For Republicans, corporate profit trumps America\u2019s economic success and <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/obama-honors-insourcers\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}