Labor Secretary
Elaine Chao's Racist
Remarks About US Workers
Job Destruction Newsletter No. 1721

I was quite stunned to read Parade magazine yesterday. In it, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is quoted saying that American workers not only have bad attitudes and lousy work ethics, they also need to dress better and to have better personal hygiene. Let's be blunt -- Chao thinks American workers have bad body odor. On top of all that, Chao thinks that Americans need to take anger management classes!

After reading the article several times in stunned disbelief, I decided to call Parade magazine and ask where the source of those quotes came from. I talked to the contact person for the press release who told me that the author of the story, Lyric Wallwork Winik, interviewed Chao. She didn't know for sure how the interview was conducted but most of Winik's interviews are done in person or via telephone.

She was quite interested, and somewhat surprised, when I told her that that this article is starting to get a lot of notice in internet blogs and chat rooms. The Parade website allows comments if you wish to express your opinion about Chao's negative attitude towards American workers.

Make no mistake about Elaine Chao's motivation for making these racist and offensive comments. Her purpose is quite transparent -- she wants to denigrate American workers in order to justify the importation of foreign workers by using guest worker visas such as H-1B, L-1, H-2B, TN, etc. The jobs she doesn't destroy here in the U.S. she wants to offshore.

These negative attitudes towards American labor shouldn't be tolerated, but it does seem fashionable nowadays. Corporate toadies like Chao are manipulating our sense of self esteem and value to instill an inferiority complex in us so that we will accept the destruction of the American middle class.

Elaine Chao shouldn't be allowed to hold a public position, especially one like the Secretary of Labor, but as we all know her anti-American attitudes are shared by her boss, President Bush. Why aren't Americans marching down the street demanding the immediate dismissal of public enemies like Chao?

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Just more evidence that our current government is not with us ..but against us...this comment is surprizing because in most summaries the american worker has always been considered the most productive in the world...as well as working the most hours etc...

Anywhere there's two clearly defined sets of rules-one for regular folk and one for "the elite"-things won't look good for we regular folk. And before anyone slams me for being Anti-Bush (well, actually, I am), this "favoring the priviledged" law here has been going on for decades. The Bush Administration isn't the first to favor the rich & powerful-they're simply the latest.

Not according to something I just read!!LOL
I'm with you devinci. Americans work more ours than any country in the world! Hands-On, so to say!
I saw a program the other night that most countries, (European) are guaranteed two weeks a year paid vacation,(by their government) and work far less hours in a year than Americans!
If they would put the tariffs back on, we wouldn't have to take the quality out of the products produces here just to compete with the pricing. Americans have the best intuitive ability, take the most initiative, and produce products that last while having rebuild ability! Tariffs are designed to allow American companies to compete at home with companies from other countries. This however, contradicts Globalization. Many of these tariffs were lifted in the 70's, more in the 80's and then NAFTA came.
The results showed up first in textiles, then in the dissemination of Unions, and now we are a service oriented Economy as Manufacturing jobs go south. The last Bastien, Construction trades, are being taken over by cheap illegal labor.
Everyone says, oh free trade is good, I say bull****, talk to beef ranchers and you will see that tariffs in many countries were not lifted when ours were. That is why hamburger in Japan and China is either 10dollars a Lb, or completely unavailable.
Some countries did lift the tariffs but many didn't, and American workers are the biggest loser in this new Global Market