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The Republican National Committee (RNC) used a call center based in the Philippines to hold a media conference attacking President Obama's economic record, the Chicago Sun-Times reported today.The RNC didn't help its image by pointing out that the call was run by Verizon.

Companies like Verizon that have shipped call center operations overseas have contributed to the devastation of the U.S. based call center industry. While the industry still comprises approximately 3 percent of the overall U.S. workforce, the industry lost more than 500,000 jobs between 2006 and 2010, largely because of the off-shoring trend. This continued trend depresses our economic recovery.

Noting that working families today are protesting Verizon's greed at its shareholders' meeting in Alabama, CWA Chief of Staff Ron Collins, who began his career in a Maryland-based Verizon call center, summed up RNC's move this way:

"It’s hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center."

Hat tip to the Communications Workers of America (CWA) for spotting this.

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/Republican-National-Committee-Attac
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"It’s hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center."

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"It’s hard to imagine anything more hypocritical than the RNC making calls about U.S. unemployment from a Verizon foreign call center."

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Maybe the Democrats who howled about Super-pacs being the end of democracy forming Super-pacs to stay in office?

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Or Republicans talking about protecting democracy by disenfranchising as many voters as possible...

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Or Republicans talking about protecting democracy by disenfranchising as many voters as possible...

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Not sure about that. Per data in Niki's thread "Democrats have a registration problem", the Republicans are potentially losing more registered voters than the Democrats. For some reason, Niki and the author of the article she cited seem to think that this is a bad thing.

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Maybe the Democrats who howled about Super-pacs being the end of democracy forming Super-pacs to stay in office?

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Nothing hypocritical about this, imo. I believe in tight gun control in a society. But if I moved to live in the US, and a very rough neighbourhood, I wouldn't refuse to countenance getting a weapon to protect myself. One can play by the rules, while at the same time wishing that the rules were different.

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The buses Barry goes on tour with were built in Canada.

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"I'm Barack Obama, the Marxist professor. I spent the last two years of high school in a daze. I inhaled frequently - that was the point. Pot helped, and booze. A little blow when you could afford it. Junkie, pothead, that's where I was headed. Shit's gettin way too complicated for me. There are white folks, and then there are ignorant mutherfuckers like you! You can put lipstick on a pig. Sorry ass mutherfucker's got nuttin on me. You ain't my bitch nigger, buy your own damn fries!"
-Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro, Dreams From My Father MP3
http://www.archive.org/details/ObamaInauguralMashup/
http://piratenews.org/obamacrimes.html

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And for some reason, you seem to think it's a good thing to disenfranchise people.

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And for some reason, you seem to think it's a good thing to disenfranchise people.

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When have I said that?

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