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    Obama to speak at NC company shipping jobs to Costa Rica

    President Barack Obama will present his “jobs plan” on Wednesday at a company which is shipping jobs overseas.

    Obama is scheduled to present his “jobs plan” in Apex, N.C., on Wednesday at the headquarters of WestStar Precision.

    WestStar is a high-end, specialty manufacturer that just opened a new facility in San Jose, Costa Rica — creating many new jobs there, but not in the United States.

    “Our main office and manufacturing facility near Research Triangle Park in the Raleigh/Durham area has approximately 11,000 sq. ft. of office space, production area and warehouse,” the company says on its website. “This facility has more than doubled in size from inception. Equipment includes precision CNC Machining centers, water jet cutter and CAD-CAM design stations.”

    On the same page, WestStar Precision describes its new location, which is almost as big, in Costa Rica: “Our new office and manufacturing facility in San Jose, Costa Rica, also has approximately 10,000 sq. ft. with similar equipment as the main office. This facility is designed for high volume production to support our international and domestic clients.”

    Republicans can hardly believe the company the president chose to speak at is shipping jobs overseas. (RELATED: Obama works to keep North Carolina blue)

    “Well the president is coming here to apparently tout how to create jobs in America, and the location he’s chosen has just apparently opened up a new manufacturing plant in Costa Rica,” North Carolina GOP spokesman Rob Lockwood told The Daily Caller. “So we are curious how a plant in Costa Rica creates American jobs.”

    The owner of the company, Ervin Portman, is a local Democrat on the Wake County, N.C. Board of Commissioners. He donated $1,000 to Obama’s 2008 campaign. Portman and his wife together donated several thousand more to other Democratic candidates and the state Democratic party. (RELATED: Obama aides give different forecasts for WH flexibility with jobs plan)

    Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse did not respond to TheDC’s request for comment.

    UPDATE 6:59 p.m.:

    According to an April 2004 article in the Raleigh News & Observer, Portman moved the jobs overseas to “take advantage of low labor costs.”

    This isn’t the first time Obama has chosen to speak at a North Carolina company outsourcing jobs overseas. In mid-June, Obama spoke at Cree LED Light Company to discuss his job creation and economic policies. Cree has been shipping jobs to China.

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    409 comments

    • John  •  8 mths ago
      what else is new costa rica is stealing jobs in upstate ny too but oh well soon we will only have retail and doctors cause all the other jobs will be gone
      • John 8 mths ago
        obama and congress need to go they need to be fired and start over
      • EaglesFan 8 mths ago
        O Shut The #$%$..K... Up... WHat About Bush?. THe Republicans wanted to cut social security what do you have to say about that?
    • earn  •  8 mths ago
      Well Costa Rica is in central America so i guess he thinks
      he is creating an American job
      • numerounopatriot 8 mths ago
        With level of education given our students in the union fun schools, it is a wonder anyone knows there is a Costa Rica.
      • Julia 8 mths ago
        Obviously, Harvard university did not help Obama a lot!!!!!
      • HS 8 mths ago
        He spent couple of millions (taxpayer money) to get a bus which was made in Canada for his "JOB bus tour and he pledged Brazil billion in helping them to drill offshore and sell oil to this country, I think his definition of American is people who live in the continents of America, not the people who live in this country.
    • Bull goose looney  •  8 mths ago
      How many bottles of single malt scotch do I have to drink before this starts to make sense?
    • Arijudez  •  8 mths ago
      What are you people complaining about? This is your beloved capitalism at it's finest -- cutting costs and running a more efficient business. Capitalism is not patriotic. Don't you know that?
    • jorod  •  8 mths ago
      obama is the kind of president that would offer ice water to the passengers on the Titanic, while having the balls to ask them for a spare life vest so he can steer the boat to the bottom.
    • don  •  8 mths ago
      Don't move those jobs to Costa Rica!Wait until I get a union in there along with some more regulations.Then you will be hit with the costs of obamacare and I might even get to raise your taxes.I have a lot of other great ideas you will miss if you move out of the country now.Barry O. El Presedente/Job Creator
    • MARK  •  8 mths ago
      It appears the do-nothings and the know-nothings are getting peed off because Barack Obama can't clean up George Bush's mess fast enough. Well, maybe we should cut everyones taxes some more, and start some new wars.
      You idiots are ruled by fear and it's been so long since you had an original thought, your brain has turned to peanut butter.
      If your opinions were based on actual knowledge of the topic here, you might be able to contribute something positive. Right now all I'm hearing is highly cynical opinion based on the dumb spin that the Tea Party and "Conservatives" are force feeding the loud, ill-informed minority. Blame it on the Mexicans!
      The bottom line is- conservative means paying your bills on time, and not going into debt to finance tax cuts and giveaways to the wealthy. So the "Conservatives" run up a big bill while they're friends make all the money. Then we try to straighten it out: that's the formula ever since good ol' Ronny came up with the "trickle down economics" plan. When are you guys going to "get it"?
    • GARY P  •  8 mths ago
      Way to go Obama. Just shows how clueless you are. Next you will be giving aid to China.
    • EDMUND  •  8 mths ago
      Are you idiots nuts? What kind of morons believe that giving companies tax cuts results in them creating jobs in this country? You must all be totally ignorant of human behavior. All cutting taxes does is increase profits. When that happens, exactly what in that equation prompts a CEO to create jobs here? We need to do whatever it takes to punish companies for manufacturing overseas. Not just open our ports and say, "oh, we'll buy whatever trash you pay your people 50 cents an hour to produce'. The consumers of this country collectively hold the power. If you want change, stop buying these products. Just say NO! Of course, as a society, we are collectively too selfish and materialistic to ever do that. Stop blaming this on Obama, you whiny morons. He didn't create this mess. You're thinking just like the nazis when they had to find a target to blame for the fall of the German economy after WW I, and you see where that got them.
    • crispus1  •  8 mths ago
      Republicans can hardly believe the company the president chose to speak at is shipping jobs overseas. (RELATED: Obama works to keep North Carolina blue)

      For those who can read this article explians why there are no jobs to be had in America Because american companys are shipping jobs overseas be it republican or democrate the work goes to cheap labor.
    • Trav  •  8 mths ago
      Be sure and tell them how you're planning to raise corporate taxes. That'll make them want to bring their jobs back.
      • mark 8 mths ago
        HOME RUN!
    • jimmyjw92  •  8 mths ago
      Thats what you all get for voting for a muslem !
    • Bill  •  8 mths ago
      Where is the lib media on this outrage?
    • proactive  •  8 mths ago
      How about sending Portman and his family to Costa Rica also, seize all their assets in the US due to UnAmerican activities and ban them from reentering the United States or doing business with us.
    • Charmed  •  8 mths ago
      obama shipping job to china! how irony isnt it?
    • mittbama gingtorrum  •  8 mths ago
      if you cut all taxes manufacturing jobs still wont comeback unless they can pay americans 50 cent an hour
    • Brian  •  8 mths ago
      Our #$%$ idiot stupid government has to make it expensive to import. Or the US will never have any jobs, dam fools
      • Trav 8 mths ago
        That's not the government job. If America can't compete they just need to learn how to. Step 1: Disolve unions.
    • NBA fan since 1970  •  8 mths ago
      I like Costa Rica. It is very pretty and the people are really nice. Thanks to our high corporate tax rate, and high union salaries, a lot of companies like Del Monte have opened shop down there. If you are looking for a job, or looking to open a business, go on down to Costa Rica.
      • slappy1 8 mths ago
        You're right, we should be working for slave wages like they do in Costa Rica.
      • dave 8 mths ago
        Still better than Not Working for No wages!
      • Startanew 8 mths ago
        No it's not Dave, you should be ashamed to be willing to take one in your butt.
    • NotPolitical  •  8 mths ago
      Where do U thing the free trade agreements U mentioned in your speech, will take jobs or whatever jobs are left here in the great U.S. of A.
    • oatsangroats  •  8 mths ago
      IMPEACH MUSLIM obama....a clueless, leaderless, Washington, DC CessPool Bottom-Feeder.
      Read this article America.
      Muslim obama is kiss-butt with democrats who bribe the commander-in chief with money and democrat votes.
      Bible.....beware of the man who will take a bribe, for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
      Muslim obama is a nothing...nothing...nothing president...!
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