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Clinton Praised Outsourcing To Indian Audience In 2012 [VIDEO]

(Hillary Clinton, Screen shot PBS You Tube)

Kerry Picket Political Reporter
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A recently uncovered video shows then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton telling an Indian audience in 2012 that many areas of the United States benefit from outsourcing jobs overseas.

“Well, you know, it’s been going on for many years now and it’s part of our economic relationship with India, and I think that there are advantages with it that have certainly benefited many parts of our country and there are disadvantages that go to the need to, you know, improve the job skills of our own people and create a better economic environment, so it’s, like anything it’s, you know, got pluses and minuses,” Clinton said.

After the host asks another question about a political ad by President Obama criticizing outsourcing, Secretary Clinton laughingly responds, “Well, you know, it’s an election year.”

Clinton’s remarks to the Indian audience are vastly different to her comments here in the United States disapproving of outsourcing.

For example, in February 2004, then-Senator Clinton said, “I do not think outsourcing American jobs is a new kind of trade… and I certainly do not believe it is a good thing.”

“This new video shows Secretary Clinton says different things to different audiences about outsourcing,” Jeff Weaver, Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager, said in a Friday press statement. “In the United States she condemns it but when she’s in India she says it has benefitted many parts of our country. Secretary Clinton should explain to the people of Michigan how they have benefited from the outsourcing of their manufacturing jobs.”

Weaver added, “Given the Secretary’s long history of supporting job-crushing trade deals it’s not a surprise she thinks there are ‘pluses’ to outsourcing. But to go abroad and just describe it ‘as part of our economic relationship with India’ is disturbing when so many communities like Detroit and Flint that have been hurt so badly by outsourcing. America workers need a president they can trust to protect their jobs.”

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