Romney Finally Punches Back on Outsourcing

From Jennifer Rubin's post in The Washington Post's Right Turn:

Hans Bader [3]of the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote about the Obama administration’s job outsourcing in January. He explained then:

Ironically, in his State of the Union Address . . . President Obama railed against “outsourcing [4].” That was funny, because he has spent billions of tax dollars on subsidizing the outsourcing of American jobs to foreign countries.

“79 percent [5]” of all green-jobs funding in Obama’s $800 billion stimulus package went to foreign companies, with the largest payment going to a bankrupt Australian company. For example, the Obama Administration spent [5] $1.6 billion on Chinese and other foreign wind power. The practical effect of those subsidies was to outsource [6] American jobs. ABC News reported on the subsidies for Chinese wind turbines [7] contained in the stimulus package. . . .

In addition to subsidizing foreign “green” jobs, Obama’s stimulus package also contained poorly-designed provisions that ignited trade wars, wiping out [8]jobs in America’s export sector and aggravating [9] the U.S. trade deficit. The Dodd-Frank financial law passed in 2010 is also expected to shift thousands of jobs [10] from America to foreign countries.

Bader e-mailed Right Turn that the GOP let the outsourcer label “be appropriated by the Democrats to use against Romney, confirming the observation of former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) that Republicans are the stupid party.”