Posted on 03/22/2004 6:24:36 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
Self-aggrandizement (Self`-ag*gran"dize*ment) (?), n. The aggrandizement of one's self. |
Back to speaking for all the people I see.
She can speak for me any day of the week.
You can certainly include me in that "we". I've said it before, and I'll say it again - China and India have high trade barriers and strong protections for their economies. We don't. They are growing more rapidly than we are. This is a logical inconsistency.
Free traitin' - just UN sponsored global welfare that the US taxpayers get stuck for.
There is a little club consisting of authors of dead theories from previous centuries, and Adam Smith is a charter member. The United States was built upon the ideas of Friedrich List and not those of Smith. Had Smith's thinking been the model, we'd still be an English colony.
Do tell that to the millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans who are being financially destroyed as a direct result of "free traitin". In fact, why not go to some working-class neighborhood bar and tell them face to face?
No?
Now who's views are elitist?
There is NO area of endeavor in this world in which Americans can compete with slave labor or people living in thatch huts. That's the basic problem.
So, your solution is for the US to govern itself like China and India.
They are shi%holes, and you want us to be shi%holes as well.
If China and India were so damned smart, they would be us...they're not. They're not because they limit their people's freedom to trade freely. They are growing because they are starting to adopt our system, and you want to counter by us adopting theirs.
But, it's a lot for you to figure that out, isn't it?
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Is this the policy Bill Clinton was following when he gave missile guidance secrets to the Chinese for campaign cash? Another part of his bargain was taking all the jobs in Japan and sending them to China, causing a collapse in Japan's economy. This was a brutal assault against our friends the Japanese, and offering our enemy, the Chinese Communists, America on a platter.
From then on it has been down hill, as American jobs are being destroyed in a free for all attitude by our government and their friends the corporations.
Pat Buchanan was certainly right about NAFTA and the horrors it would bring on this country. America gets millions of unskilled illegal workers, and jobs Americans once held are being down graded to match those unskilled workers demands. Meanwhile, the American taxpayer is going broke subsidizing these illegals and their families. I see nothing good in any of this, and it all began with so called, free trade that rewards our enemies, and destroys the American worker.
Opposition to mercantilism and state paternalism also motivated Adam Smith, father of classical economics, whose name more than any other is connected with British laissez-faire doctrines. Smith believed that individual welfare rather than national power was the correct goal; he thus advocated that trade should be free of government restrictions. When individuals were free to pursue self-interest, the invisible hand of rivalry or competition would become more effective than the state as a regulator of economic life. Smith did not believe in laissez-faire in an absolute sense; he found a place for government activity in public works, such as the building of canals and docks to facilitate trade, and in the regulation of foreign commerce to protect certain home industries.
Why don't you quit the histrionics and try posting some actual numbers?
And if offshoring is such a damned evil thing, then we should shut down all those Toyota and Honda plants here...right?
One more thing...hard for you to prove the negative financial aspects of our economic system in light of the constantly rising wages, and industrial productivity these past two hundred plus years.
More work outsourced to US than away from it
Histrionics.
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