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From About.com:
As of December 2008, President George W. Bush had vetoed only 12 bills since taking office in January 2001. Only one Presidential veto occurred before Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007. This is the fewest Presidential vetoes of any modern President; in March 2006 Bush set a 200-year veto record. Source: US Senate.

1. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005
2. US Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability
3. Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007
4. Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
5. Water Resources Development Act of 2007
6. Appropriations: Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, 2008
7. Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
8. National Defense Authorization Act for FY2008
9. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008
10. Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
11. Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (twice, apparently)
12. Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act of 2008

I have no idea how much the laborers in foreign auto factories make in the South. Somehow I suspect, since you had no idea that Bush vetoed bills, you also have no idea how much they make.

During the Raygun era the purpose of much of the outsourcing of jobs was to (1) reduce costs and (2) bust unions. I worked as a yardmaster on a railroad at that time and I also did side jobs as a programmer. On a new programming job I was surprised to find clerks I had known in the steel mills from the railroad. Their jobs had been eliminated and they were working as outside contractors for minimum wages and no benefits doing the same jobs.

The fact of the matter is that corporations have their own agendas, morals and natural history. By nature they require a profit or they die. As corporate entities they owe loyalty to no one though they demand loyalty from their employees. They are not American nor are they any other nationality. They hate unions who are the only ones strong enough to stand up to them and they discount their employees as “cost centers”. Their dream in life is to run their corporation without any of those nasty employee people. But they can’t so they put up with it. However, first chance they get, they dump their employees and, while they have no nationality, they do not hesitate to use shills like you to scream about marxism and socialism and big government and regulations whenever anybody wants to get their excesses under control. A little like the NRA, ya know? “They wanna take our guns” becomes “They wanna take our profits”. “They wanna tax our guns” becomes “They wanna bankrupt us with taxes”. Which is all bullshit because Clinton raised taxes and the economy went boom! Raygun, Bush and Bush cut taxes and services and everything went bust! Because you can’t gift rich people with money and hope they will invest in the economy. Repubtards make fun of Obama and hope – well what about Raygun and Bush and Bush hoping that rich people, out of the goodness of their hearts, would create more jobs. The rich only create jobs when they see a market. And a market only occurs when people have money to spend. Millions of people. Not hundreds. During Raygun’s time, rich people used the extra money to buy out their competitors and eliminate jobs. You see where that went. They also raped retirement funds and health plans. Without conscience. Good Americans all, eh? Ayn Rand and the theory of greed ruled the day. And, in Republican circles, still does. They are a bankrupt group of people – without answers. Their song has ended.

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And I’m sure the textile mills did not pay the $42 to $47 per hour now earned in the auto plants in the South, either.