George Bush
Trading away America's Future to India
"The United States and India are potentially the two most important global providers of knowledge-based products and services – including software development, Internet services, basic research, R&D, space science, film, music, video animation, and other forms of entertainment, biotechnology, health related services and a host of emerging information-based industries. Both countries need to export these products and services to realize their full value. In the absence of a strong international consensus in support of a liberal international regime, the fundamental economic interests of both countries would remain unfulfilled." USIBC Knowledge Trade
November 2001 - Notice that both documents discuss the same agreement but the announcements were separate. Pretty obvious that they didn't want to highlight the fact that not only was Bush trading away the economic basis of our economy, he was also making it possible for our defense industry to move there too - under the guise of 'fighting terrorism'.
Trading Arms & Industries (i.e. knowledge jobs)
During their November 2001 meeting in Washington D.C., Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Bush affirmed their commitment to qualitatively transform India-U.S. relations. They further agreed that the two sides should discuss ways to stimulate bilateral high technology commerce as a step toward enhancing the new relationship between the United States and India.
In pursuit of this goal, the Governments of the United States and India decided in November 2002 to work expeditiously toward developing a new statement of principles regarding bilateral cooperation in high technology trade, including trade in “dual-use” goods and technologies, in a way that broadly advances the relationship between the two countries in this area and reinforces their mutual interest in stemming the proliferation of sensitive goods and technologies.
Stimulating High-Technology Trade
Not only did the Bush Administration make it possible for corporations to move knowledge jobs to India, they have been doing everything they can to help them move!
President
Bush Holds Press Conference
Press Conference of the President
Room 450
Eisenhower Executive Office Building
11:15 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Please be seated. Thank you for coming to this, the last press conference of the year 2003.
Excerpt Bush:
"America's economy is growing at a robust pace, and beginning to generate new jobs for America, American workers. I want to thank the Congress for passing my jobs and growth package, which is doing just what it was supposed to do. And we will continue pursuing a pro-growth agenda next year."
Bush's record on jobs from JobWatch
And The Jobs Just Keep On Going.....
The United States and India announced today major progress in the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership (NSSP) initiative. Implementation of the NSSP will lead to significant economic benefits for both countries and improve regional and global security.
In January 2004, the United States and India agreed to expand cooperation in three specific areas: civilian nuclear activities, civilian space programs, and high-technology trade. In addition, the two countries agreed to expand our dialogue on missile defense. These areas of cooperation are designed to progress through a series of reciprocal steps that build on each other.