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To: ContentiousObjector
Sorry, I disagree. Whatever punitive trade actions the Bush administration takes, are done to instill market discipline against those nations which do not support free markets. This is done to ensure that markets remain free -- you could call it "market medicine", and it's for everyone's good.
56 posted on 05/13/2003 1:51:56 PM PDT by Provost-Marshal
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To: Provost-Marshal
you can't be serious, the steel tariffs have sent hundereds of thousands of American manufacturing jobs to Canada and Mexico, (where they use the exact same steel as before and import the finished goods under NAFTA) and those jobs aren't comming back.

The communist farm subsudies are going to make American farms about as productive as Soviet collective farms, and invite reciprocal measures by our trading partners.

The tariffs against Canadian wood have made us look like fscking idiots, both because of our tree hugger environmental laws and because the 'canadian subsudies' are infact nothing more than low taxes on Canadian producers.

The trade measures that have been made by the Bush administration are disastrous, they are shipping American jobs north and south, they are going to turn American farms into state sponsored wastelands and they are destroying our trading credibility with the rest of the world.

The only reason Bush is doing this is because he wants to garner union support in West Virginia, Ohio and the mid-west, there is absolutly no economic rational for it what-so-ever... or anything else this administration has done

61 posted on 05/13/2003 2:06:10 PM PDT by ContentiousObjector
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