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How out of touch can a politician be?

David Sirota


Every now and again you see a story that makes you wonder how politicians can be so out of touch as to quite literally insult their constituents and hard working Americans. One of those days is today, with this national Associated Press story now running everywhere about my U.S. Senator, Max Baucus (D). The headline says it all: "U.S. Senator Supports Outsourcing to India" - and the story is everywhere on the wires. What a pathetic message for a Democratic Party that claims to want to win votes in blue-collar America.


Baucus represents Montana, a state that ranks among the the lowest in income and ranks dead last in wages. And yet somehow, he thinks it's a great idea to take a lavish trip over to India, and give a speech lauding the elimination of good paying jobs in America. Almost like a corporate-programmed automaton, Baucus obediently spews the language of Tom Friedman, saying "The world is flat...Offshoring is a fact of globalization." Seriously folks - how out of touch can a politician get? How out of touch do you have to be to represent a working class state struggling to raise its wages and then go over to India to trumpet the elimination of good paying jobs?


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