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Executives around world say Obama better for world economy

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Executives around world say Obama better for world economy

Misery loves company.

The result was different among respondents in the United States, where a slim majority thought Romney would be better for their businesses than Obama.

The rest, is moot.

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Of course 40% want Obama, those are the same guys who are getting the jobs he outsourced. I bet that if you looked at the stats, outsourced countries rate him highly, everyone else wants him gone.

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The S&P 500 has shot up nearly 50% since early 2009. The pro-Obama opinions are backed by some hard numbers.

Those are the same guys who are getting the jobs he outsourced.

The president doesn't outsources jobs. Companies outsource, believe it or not. But if this fantasy gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, so be it.

Modern US outsourcing got started in 1974 when Nixon got fast track legislation to allow presidents to bypass congress for world trade negotiations. Then in 1980, Reagan in his campaign promoted "free trade" agreements with US trading partners, and it's those agreements that have been providing the legal and technical framework by which American companies outsource jobs.

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The president doesn't outsources jobs

His czars do. The EPA has gone wild these last three years. They have their own SWAT teams.

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JeffLeeAug. 18, 2012 - 05:59PM JST

The president doesn't outsources jobs. Companies outsource, believe it or not. But if this fantasy gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, so be it.

Vetos of certain acts, appointments, even general tone messages about economy all affect the economy, and therefore outsourcing. Unlike the "free trade" stuff you considered to be big (well, it was in the 80s when jobs went to mexico), modern outsourcing has much more to do with economic benefits to using loopholes to create joint ventures and transfer in house jobs to consulting jobs, which are then "bought" from their ventures.

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They have their own SWAT teams.

It looks like the anti-Obama crowd are getting really, really desperate. They're retreating into a world of pure fantasy. The truth hurts, huh.

Vetos of certain acts, appointments....

yeah, I guess he could do that. A band-aid approach. But the framework was firmly established a while back....mostly by Reagan and Bush Sr. Why didn't the wingnuts go after them, instead of Obama, who came after the damage was done?

Anyway, US manufacturing has surged since Obama took office, so your argument really holds no water: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/fact-check-obama-and-the-resurgence-of-american-manufacturing/

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Obama saved US from collapsing in 2008. No mistake about it.

GOP (Romney/Ryan) will takes us back to "Austerity Economic Model" and "Their Free Market" with no regulations in US Financial Market that actually destroyed America. And many global countries have received a spill over effect (recession) from US.

We, Americans are all paying for their failures now. Obama has inherited all these debts from Bush and GOP when he took office 4 years ago.

It looks like a bunch of CEO groups of America raped the Middle Class Americans and created a huge debt for us, and a Janitor (Obama) is trying to sweep dirty floors trying to restore America. He is committed to win, yes, he WILL.

This US Presidential Election of 2012 is a critical choice election, and the most important one in US history.

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