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Free Trade Treaties Mean Impoverishment
The Wall Street Journal ^
| October 4, 2007
| Bernie Sanders
Posted on 10/04/2007 3:17:09 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:17:12 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
I messed up the embedded link.
Here it is.
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:18:32 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Sorry. I consider Bernie to be not worth the click.
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:20:04 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(...make the stupid people shut up.)
To: 1rudeboy
Bernie SandersWow, the NYT has an op-ed praising Bush on North Korea, and the WSJ has a column by New England's favorite socialist. Halloweenie came early this year!
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:22:53 AM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist living in Boston)
To: RichInOC
I just posted it for giggles.
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:31:41 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: 1rudeboy
Bernie Sanders knows more than Adam Smith.
How can voluntary transactions act to the detriment of both parties? This makes absolutely no sense at all.
“Countries” don’t trade, individuals do. When individuals are free to engage in voluntary transactions, they will seek transactions tending to maximize their individual benefit.
Third parties who would seek to use coercion to restrain the freedom of individuals to make transactions may actually want to force them to make transactions benefiting themselves or may be misinformed and acting out of misguided humanitarian impulses. Or they may be well informed and want to use purported humanitarian ideals to force the parties to make transactions favorable to themselves.
In Sanders case, I believe he is well informed but champions misguided policies for personal political advantage.
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:32:58 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:43:05 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(France needs a new kind of immigrant — one who is "selected, not endured" - Sarkozy)
To: Darkwolf377
I just read a telling reply of yours on a different thread, so I know that you’re a SoCon. Just curious, where do you stand on this op-ed? Do you have sympathies for what the socialist Bernie Sanders has written here?
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:49:11 AM PDT
by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: 1rudeboy
“so much economic pain for working families here in the U.S.”
Yeah, right. 4.6% unemployment is shear “pain.”
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:52:23 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: LowCountryJoe
I just read a telling reply of yours on a different thread, so I know that youre a SoCon.I don't even know what a SoCon is, so how can I be one?
Just curious, where do you stand on this op-ed?
If you actually READ something he wrote you must be one of these SoCons yourself.
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posted on
10/04/2007 3:57:04 AM PDT
by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life atheist living in Boston)
To: 1rudeboy
To: Brilliant
Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in September for the eighth consecutive month, while the overall economy grew for the 71st consecutive month, say the nation's supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Norbert J. Ore, C.P.M., chair of the Institute for Supply Management Manufacturing Business Survey Committee. "Manufacturing growth continued in September . . . . The sector is apparently in excellent shape with regard to inventories as the Inventories Index fell to 41.6 percent, indicating significant inventory liquidation, and the rate of growth in the Employment Index increased slightly in September. Overall, September looks like a good month for manufacturing." I don't have a clue what data Bernie is looking at. Sounds like he's just making stuff up that sounds good to his constituents.
To: 1rudeboy
There are several good arguments to be made against these so-called “free trade” agreements. Sanders, however, doesn’t really make any of them here.
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:16:38 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
To: 1rudeboy
Bernie got me so angered at their plight, I tossed my gimlet across the lawn.
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:21:38 AM PDT
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
To: 1rudeboy
Working families in Mexico suffer Were they rich at some point?
To: Alberta's Child
There are several good arguments to be made against these so-called free trade agreementsPlease share with the class, AC.
The next "good" argument I hear against free trade will be the first one.
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:22:31 AM PDT
by
L,TOWM
("Protesting Clinton's wars was'nt cool..." - Jeneane Garafolo, 2003)
To: ALPAPilot
He’s looking at the following data: contributions and political support from labor union interests.
To: L,TOWM
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:39:09 AM PDT
by
LowCountryJoe
(I'm a Paleo-liberal: I believe in freedom; am socially independent and a borderline fiscal anarchist)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
In Sanders case, I believe he is well informed but champions misguided policies for personal political advantage. No, he's just a Socialist Democrat... At least he doesn't run from the label. But HL Mencken has the better phrase for these people... the Demogogue:
"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."
That could be the Democrats campaign slogan.
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:41:23 AM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
To: L,TOWM
These "agreements" have a very one-sided aspect to them, since the U.S. has no qualms about violating them if it ever feels a need to do so.
In light of the abject idiocy we saw from the U.S. government during the softwood lumber dispute with Canada over the last five years, I'd say that any country that signs a "free trade agreement" with the U.S. is out of its freaking mind.
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posted on
10/04/2007 4:43:00 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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