Shortly after reading the following e-mail content, I happened to look at the label of a jar of Heinz sandwich slice pickles. Yep....Made in Mexico" Check some of your Heinz products.
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"Sen. John Kerry keeps talking about U.S. corporations leaving this country and setting up shop in foreign countries, taking thousands of jobs with them. He is right, because that has happened.

However, he is trying to blame it on George W. Bush. As far as I know, Bush has not moved one factory out of this country because he is not the owner of a single factory.

That cannot be said about Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz-Kerry.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Kerry's own 32 factories in Europe and 18 in Asia and the Pacific. In addition, their company, the Heinz Company, leases four factories in Europe and four in Asia. Also, they own
27 factories in North America, some of which are in Mexico and the Caribbean. 80% of Heinz products are made overseas.

I wonder how many hundreds of American workers lost their jobs when these plants relocated in foreign countries. I also wonder if the workers in Mexico and Asia are paid the same wages and benefits as workers in the United States. Of course they're not. However, Kerry demands that other companies that relocate should pay the same benefits they did in the U.S.
Why does he not demand this of the Heinz Company, since he is married to the owner?

If Kerry is elected, will he and his wife close all those foreign factories and bring all those jobs back to America? Of course they won't. They're making millions off that cheap labor.

Now you know why he wants to give a tax break to companies that re-locate back to the US.

But according to the pre-nup he signed, he can't have an interest in the Heinz companies! I smell Teresa Heinz-Kerry in this.

Oh, BTW, if he and Teresa split, he's back out on the street like he was after his first divorce.

Oh, BTW, if he and Teresa split, he's back out on the street like he was after his first divorce. :histerica :histerica :chili: :clap

" I used to be a presidentail canditate. When I lost the election, my mega wealthy wife left me and now I'm forced to sell oranges along side the highway with my improvished (insert nationality here) bretheren. Hillary in 08 " :wacko :toothless :histerica

I find it so amusing the way people can twist things to serve their purpose.

1. The Kerry's do not own any factories. The Heinz company is not "their" company. As a matter of fact, Teresa Heinz-Kerry and her family hold less than 4% of the current shares in the company.

2. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is not the owner of the company. Furthermore, her only associations with that company exist because she married former Senator John Heinz, whose great-grandfather founded the company.

3. The Heinz company has been working overtime to prove that this gossip about them outsourcing is merely that - a rumor cooked up by the Republicans to hurt Kerry's campaign.

There may be bits and pieces of truths floating around or even used to construct this article, but some newspaper articles later and one Google search really goes to show that you can't believe everything you read.

Here's where I got most of the information from, aside from articles in real newspapers:
Heinz Company Website (http://www.heinz.com/jsp/nonpartisan.jsp)
Washington Post Article About Teresa Kerry (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13473-2004Jul25.html)
Foodservice, Article Courtesy of The Washington Post (http://www.foodservice.com/news_homepage_expandtitle_fromhome.cfm?passid=8989 )

Ok, good point. Now has Kerry (as an outspoken liberal, championing the "working man") made any effort to bring his own family's investments in line with where his political mouth is?