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New World Trade Center's Chinese Glass Is Adding to Trade Furor
The Washington Post ^ | 10 Oct 2009 | Peter Whoriskey

Posted on 10/11/2009 9:37:58 AM PDT by BGHater

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To: dennisw

I am for autarky to the greatest degree possible. I think that the United States should have a “strategic industries list” comprised of those industries necessary for the survival of the nation. We should for example be 100% self-sufficient in energy/POL production, basic foodstuffs, heavy industries (e.g. steel production, weapon, ship, electronics and aerospace production, construction materials, lumber, cement, etc.), and raw materials for these industries. The government should protect these industries by tariffs and/or subsidies as necessary for purposes of national security.


61 posted on 10/11/2009 4:57:30 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: B-Chan

You wouldn’t know what to do with the data if I gave them to you.

I am not your research analyst. Now that you think you know what questions to ask (you don’t), enlighten yourself.

Good night and I suggest you change your secret hiding place password.


62 posted on 10/11/2009 5:22:52 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: B-Chan

If that’s the case then no unions or minimum wages should be allowed in “protected” industries.


64 posted on 10/11/2009 7:56:09 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: BGHater

JUST BUILD THE DARN THING.


65 posted on 10/11/2009 7:57:14 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (2012: Repeal it all... All of it!)
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To: piasa
Oh, I agree. The federal minimum wage law should be done away with.

As for unions, the Wagner Act (NLRA, 29 U.S.C. §§ 151-169) says that workers in most industries have the right to organize, and this right has been upheld in federal court in several cases (NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., 301 U.S. 1, 38 , 41-42 [1937], NLRB v. Fruehauf Trailer Co., 301 U.S. 49 [1937], NLRB v. Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co., 301 U.S. 58 [1937], NLRB v. Reliance Fuel Oil Co.,, 371 U.S. 224 [1963], inter alia); to restrict that right would probably require a constitutional amendment.

67 posted on 10/11/2009 8:29:32 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: dennisw

You’re right. A country that makes nothing is called a colony.


68 posted on 10/11/2009 8:30:55 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

That’s right, we pass them out to the free trade crowd who haven’t the sense to recognize danger ;^)


69 posted on 10/11/2009 8:37:03 PM PDT by investigateworld (Abortion stops a beating heart)
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To: BGHater

Two churches are to be built on the world trade center site. If not, we shall see.

Been foretold


70 posted on 10/11/2009 8:50:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: B-Chan

Done.


71 posted on 10/12/2009 5:21:57 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Gaffer
That phrase carries with it an exclusion for me: Non-Union American Made.

Better non-union Chinese made?

72 posted on 10/12/2009 5:24:49 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: B-Chan

Correct and I see massive foreign ownership here as colonization. Japanese automobile plants are a good example. It was disgusting to see states/counties compete on giveaways and tax holidays to get Toyota/Nissan/Hyundai/BMW etc to build factories on their turf.......

These breaks put GM/Ford/Chysler at a competitive disadvantage. But the mantra was jobs jobs jobs for American peons to work for their new foreign masters


73 posted on 10/12/2009 6:23:37 AM PDT by dennisw (Ir's not the Wheel, It's the Carousel)
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To: Non-Sequitur
I honestly make an attempt to buy goods from American manufacturers. If it's something I know good and g'damn well is solely union and I can get the alternative, I will.
74 posted on 10/12/2009 6:49:15 AM PDT by Gaffer
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I honestly make an attempt to buy goods from American manufacturers. If it's something I know good and g'damn well is solely union and I can get the alternative, I will.

Regardless of where it's from?

75 posted on 10/12/2009 6:51:29 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

No, still sort on the made-in-America basis. Then by state. Don’t like it? Guess that’s why ‘my money’ is still ‘my money’. When it becomes yours, you just let me know and we’ll talk about how you get it.


76 posted on 10/12/2009 6:54:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: dennisw

A closed, agrarian system is more to your liking?


77 posted on 10/12/2009 10:28:10 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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