From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Well, if the current figure is only 16.5 million, it goes off the bottom of the chart.
And the dumb idiots wonder why interest rate and tax cuts aren't producing an economic stimulus!
Posted on 02/24/2003 1:38:02 PM PST by Willie Green
So, are you suggesting that all of the 2 million people that lost manufacturing jobs in the last two years have found other work?
If by "protectionist" you mean that I favor self-reliant domestic industry over foreign sources of production, that is true. I'm a staunch America First! advocate.
If by "protectionist" you mean that I advocate targetted tariffs that favor one American business or industry over another, you are dead wrong.
So I wish to protect America's industrial infrastructure, an infrastruction that Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Kruschev, Mao, etc. etc. could only dream of destroying. That's fine by me, I'm quite proud of that.
Your use of "protectionism" as a slur is despicable.
I'll include you among those myopic lemmings and prostitutes who are willing to sacrifice our long term economic stability and National Security for cheap consumer trinkets.
I wonder in this case if the "better access to production components" isn't really China artificially devaluing their currency.
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Well, if the current figure is only 16.5 million, it goes off the bottom of the chart.
And the dumb idiots wonder why interest rate and tax cuts aren't producing an economic stimulus!
Sure we have problems, but making our cheap trinkets into expensive ones is not the way to fix those problems.
You favor government control over the right of free trade among men. That is what the above says.
America first! LOL, the last hiding place of tyrants is false patriotism. The people who founded this country would be repulsed by you telling them at gunpoint that they could only buy goods from certain people.
I'll include you among those myopic lemmings and prostitutes who are willing to sacrifice our long term economic stability and National Security for cheap consumer trinkets.
More personal attacks in lieu of response to the issues.
And when do things change from cheap trinkets to consumer goods? When they are made inside US borders? LOL, clothing and other goods as cheap trinkets, as if it were any of your business what people value more than their own money.
Your ideas are on the ash heap, with your hero.
Your use of all the names you have called anyone who disagrees with you is despicable.
So your "solution" is to collapse America's industrial infrastructure to Third World conditions. That's the most ignorant and despicable approach imaginable.
Calling a spade a spade.
Duh, my UAW union thug dad has been whining about this for 30 years. Meanwhile we have only 6 percent unemployment during a "huge depression" according to the liberal media. This country is so rich it's a sin.
They do what you suggest we do. Why isn't it working?
Me too, but I stuck to the ideas because that is the topic, you name called because you had no other way to present your points.
Kofi Annan talking point.
Could've been uttered by Hillary Klinton as well.
"America is too rich. Americans are lazy.
Americans need to share their wealth with the rest of the world.
America is sinful and evil.
America needs to be dropped to its knees."
biblewonk = Hate America First!
You're blathering, again.
Now if we can only get CJ and KC to go after each other, all would be right with the world. :^}
My points have always been based on sound, fundamental principles of economics.
You can witness this on the following thread I authored almost 3 years ago: A Proposal to Abolish the Corporate Income Tax
On that same thread, you can also witness the same swarm of NRST flying monkeys ignore the points I made and simply spam the thread with their NRST Uber Alles extremism.
Furthermore, you can witness the ad hominem attacks they initiate against those who disagree (refer to the NRST shill "pigdog" and his attack agains both lewislynn and myself)
Ad hominem attacks are a characteristic of NRST advocates.
Their presence on this forum constitutes a severe obstruction to any intelligent discussion of tax related issues.
I didn't call you names on the three year old thread or this one but your sure called me names.
Your sound principles of economics are on the ash heap of history. Trade wars and high tariffs are nothing but populist nonsense designed to rouse up the uneducated. Restricting free trade is anthema to free societies. Which you seem to be opposed to in anycase.
Pick any tax thread that has ever been posted on this forum.
It doesn't matter what kind of national tax, Sales Tax, Income Tax, VAT, Flat Tax, Tariffs, etc. etc. etc.
If the NRST shills are present on the thread, their modus operendi is always the same: attack, belittle and degrade anybody who dares to disagree with their position. If you fail to swallow their assertions lock, stock and barrel, you WILL be smeared as "ignorant", "uninformed", "stupid", "marxist" and descending to even more crude vulgarities.
If you truly wish intelligent discussion of tax issues, including objective comparison of the different ramifications of various modes of taxation, you'll have to find another forum. The NRST extremists have rendered this forum absolutely useless for such discussion.
Kinda like your tactics on your pet issue? LOL
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