Politapocalypse (U.S. Politics Megathread)

Fox News is reportedly dumping Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio's path to the Republican presidential nomination just got a little narrower, as Fox News employees and guests have been instructed to stop giving the freshman senator favorable coverage, says New York's Gabriel Sherman, citing "three Fox sources." Sherman, who wrote a book about Fox News and its boss, Roger Ailes, quotes Ailes as telling a Fox host recently: "We're finished with Rubio.... We can't do the Rubio thing anymore."

The reasons, Sherman says, include Ailes' waning confidence in Rubio's electoral prospects, tension with Rubio antagonists like Sean Hannity, and, most proximately, an article in The New York Times this week detailing a private 2013 dinner at which Rubio persuaded Ailes to back his "Gang of 8" immigration bill. "Roger hates seeing his name in print," a longtime Ailes associate told Sherman. "He was appalled the dinner was reported." The Fox News chief is now searching for a new candidate to champion, Sherman said; read his entire report at New York. -Peter Weber

Couldn't happen to a more deserving group of people.

Why do states like CA and NY CONTINUE TO sit on the sidelines and let other (less influential, arguably less progressive?) states like IA, SC and NH determine our country's party nominations? cycle after cycle too.

Okay, hddj, thanks. I'll research it.

Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run

by Donald J. Trump
Chairman, Trump University


We hear terrible things about outsourcing jobs--how sending work outside of our companies is contributing to the demise of American businesses. But in this instance I have to take the unpopular stance that it is not always a terrible thing.

I understand that outsourcing means that employees lose jobs. Because work is often outsourced to other countries, it means Americans lose jobs. In other cases, nonunion employees get the work. Losing jobs is never a good thing, but we have to look at the bigger picture.

Last year, Nobel Prize-winning economist Dr. Lawrence R. Klein, the founder of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, co-authored a study that showed how global outsourcing actually creates more jobs and increases wages, at least for IT workers. The study found that outsourcing helped companies be more competitive and more productive. That means they make more money, which means they funnel more into the economy, thereby, creating more jobs.

I know that doesn't make it any easier for people whose jobs have been outsourced overseas, but if a company's only means of survival is by farming jobs outside its walls, then sometimes it's a necessary step. The other option might be to close its doors for good.