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| Obama to act against outsourcingjob |
| Amidst applause and cheers from his supporters, soon after the results of Iowa Democratic caucuses were declared, Obama said:
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 4-January-2008
1:20:52 AM |
| Illinois Senator, Barack Obama, who took many by surprise by winning the Iowa Democratic caucuses on Thursday night, promised to act against those companies who outsource jobs from America.
''I'll be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans who deserve it,'' Obama said in his victory speech.
Amidst applause and cheers from his supporters, soon after the results of Iowa Democratic caucuses were declared, Obama said: ''We are choosing hope over fear. We're choosing unity over division, and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America.''
His speech could remind many of the last presidential election when outsourcing of jobs to countries like India was a major issue especially by the then Democratic candidate John Kerry, who lost narrowly to George W Bush in 2004. So far outsourcing of jobs has not become an election issue, which is more so dominated by the war in Iraq and other domestic issues like health care.
Obama, who would be the first black president if elected in the November elections, interestingly has not been able to garner much support among the Indian-American community, which so far has overwhelmingly supported the former First Lady and the New York Senator, Hillary Clinton.
Clinton was ranked third with 29 per cent of the Democratic Iowa caucuses votes, behind Obama who got 38 per cent votes and John Edwards (30 per cent).
Even though not many Indian Americans have come out in his support, Obama has been a long-time admirer of India reflected in many of his speeches. In a 2005 speech, he said India has the ability to adapt itself to a ''flat'' world. He also voted in favor of the Indo-US nuke deal.
Last month, Obama had posted a Bollywood video on YouTube in an effort to attract the Indian-American voters to his fold.
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