Mark Kirk voted against the Watt Amendment to the budget bill. The amendment would have helped cut the deficit by, among other things, eliminating corporate tax incentives for off-shoring jobs.
As Greg Mysko of the Illinois Tenth District Democrats reported last year, Kirk's sentiments were with the Bush Administration supporting outsourcing. In February 2004, the President’s Council of Economic Advisors issued a report encouraging American corporations to outsource services to low-cost countries like India. Kirk's response to concerned consitutents was not helpful. All he said was: "Many IT companies are investing millions to employ services in countries such as India, China and Russia."
I used to volunteer at the Career Resource Center in Lake Forest. The place was filled with executives whose jobs were eliminated due to off-shoring of jobs. These were mostly men in their 50s with big houses with big mortgages and children off in expensive colleges. I bet a lot of these men voted for Kirk in the 2004 election. They weren't paying attention in 2004. I hope they are paying attention now as Kirk moves further right on the economy, right into the Bushes.
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