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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBig Ed to share story of 170 jobs in Freeport IL to be outsourced by Bain Capital to China.
They have appealed to Mitt Romney for help in saving their jobs. Good luck with that.
elleng
(131,370 posts)Mayor of Freeport, IL, on the job.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)I mean seriously, how dumb can people be? Romney is out there night and day, saying over and over that he has nothing to do with Bain Capital, and they think he's going to help them, thereby showing that he's lying about having nothing to do with the company?
Why would he help them? As soon as he did, the "AHA!!!" cry would go up about the fact that he still had control at Bain.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Could you imagine the possibilities?
reformist2
(9,841 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)reformist2
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(7,290 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)This is so wrong.
And it's happening partly, the story said, because a company gets MONEY or TAX BREAKS or something from the govt. if they do that. So it ENCOURAGES companies to outsource.
So, so wrong!
trueblue2007
(17,245 posts)OneAngryDemocrat
(2,060 posts)When Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas met in a series of seven debates while running for a Senate seat from Illinois they fiercely argued the critical issue of the day, slavery. The debates elevated Lincoln's profile, helping to push him toward his run for president two years later. Douglas, however, would actually win the 1858 Senate election.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates had national impact. The events of that summer and fall in Illinois were covered widely by newspapers, whose stenographers recorded transcripts of the debates, which were often published with days of each event.
Before the second debate, Lincoln called a meeting of advisers. They suggested he should be more aggressive, with a friendly newspaper editor emphasizing that the wily Douglas was a "bold, brazen, lying rascal."
Leading off the Freeport debate, Lincoln asked his own sharp questions of Douglas. One of them, which became known as the "Freeport Question," inquired whether people in a US territory could prohibit slavery before it became a state.
Lincoln's simple question caught Douglas in a dilemma. Douglas said he believed a new state could prohibit slavery. That was a compromise position, a practical stance in the 1858 senate campaign. Yet it alienated Douglas with southerners he would need in 1860 when he ran for president against Lincoln.