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Republicans knock DOJ on AT&T suit
Reactions are coming from GOP foes of the Obama administration and the Department of Justice's suit to stop AT&T's acquisition of T-Mobile.
Politico has some round up of the gripes:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said he was "disappointed in the Justice Department's decision," citing Tuesday's announcement from AT&T that it intended to return 5,000 outsourced call center jobs to the United States if the deal went through.
Another Texas Republican, Rep. Pete Sessions, called DOJ's decision "the latest example of the Obama administration's continued assault on the American economy."
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I have yet to see any estimates on how many T-Mobile jobs would be lost due to redundancy in an acquisition scenario but it has 36,000 overall employees right now. Would the addition of 5000 call center jobs plus seeming inevitable layoffs make a net gain, a net loss, or a wash for the overall number of employees? And what would it mean for the kinds of jobs being offered in terms of pay scale?
Oh, I'm sorry, I was just thinking out loud. Are you still here? Oh thanks! Hi!
I find it irresponsible for you leave out the fact that AT&T's global headquarters is located in John Cornyn and Pete Sessions's home state and city.
Aside from that, these two clowns could care less about the American people. Typical republican favoritism towards big business at the expense of the average American. I applaud the DOJ’s effort to block the deal, as do many, because the last thing we need is less competition. And it was a pathetic bribe attempt to say, ‘we will bring 5,000 jobs’.
Honestly I disagree this regular favoritism towards big business. Actually its much worse than that. These two have been bought out quite nicely by AT&T. From 2002 - 2010 AT&T, Inc was Senator Cornyn's 5th largest contributor with a total of $74,850 contributed to his campaign. Congressman Sessions has been in the game much longer so from 1996 - 2010 AT&T, Inc. has been his largest contributor with a total of $123,690.
