August 11, 2011 08:06 PM UTC

Gardner: Hit The Bricks, Outsource-Threatened Workers

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• by: Colorado Pols

A fascinating tidbit from Monday’s town hall meeting with freshman Rep. Cory Gardner–transcript via Media Matters’ Political Correction this morning:

CONSTITUENT: But what about my job? I want to keep it. Not new jobs. I want to keep my job.

GARDNER: Well, make sure that your business is successful. [Pols emphasis] We need to make sure that we’re –

CONSTITUENT: They’re successful by training those Vietnamese and I want to learn. They make me work 45 hours a week and they don’t pay for training anymore. They used to pay for two weeks of training every year. They quit paying for training three years ago. But they’re training – they’re giving these people technology, they’re giving them what I want to know, and I don’t have time to learn.

CONSTITUENT 2: And they get tax incentives to do it.

GARDNER: To go back to the question, if that company can succeed, I would hope that they would share their success with you. If they are not, maybe that’s not a great company to work for. [Pols emphasis]

Ouch! We haven’t heard if Gardner was actually serving cake at this town hall, but we’d say that’s all he was offering to, if you will, let them eat. And while he’s right that companies who outsource jobs are not “great” to work for, the companies will answer that they need to in order to “make sure” their business is “successful.” That’s all Gardner needs to hear, of course.

A smashing boost for office morale, wouldn’t you say?