A Nation of Hamburger Flippers

National Review Online ^ | August 18, 2003 | Bruce Bartlett

[ellery]

bttt

[Servant of the Nine]

This is the same silly whining they have been doing since the mid '50s.

So9

[cmsgop]

and Staff Eats For FREE !!!!!!!!

[dr_who_2]

Rubbish. Driving up the price of steel has only hurt manufacturing, and it hasn't helped the steel industry at all. Furthermore, the costs of keeping an army armed increase when armor and ammo cost more because steel is more expensive.

[dr_who_2]

I might prefer a machine to the sort of people who mind the till at your typical Macdonalds these days. Not that the food's any good either way.

[dr_who_2]

Someone should email NRO the following email

From: FreeRepublic Admin Moderator
Subject: Please keep original titles
Body: cut it out

I can see you're really worked up about this.

[dr_who_2]

So if I say "Free trade! YEAH!!!" three times, does that mean someone somewhere will become a burger flipper?

[dr_who_2]

We must tarrif anyone who sells steel below what we can make it for.

Gotta hate those Chinese, giving us money to make our automobiles, tanks, and aircraft carriers.

[TheFrog]

Re: "human beings are free to stop working" You are free to stop working today, it just does not pay that well!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Archangelsk]

By that standard, agriculture has been the sickest industry of all for decades. Rather, such things as output, productivity, profitability, and wages better determine industrial health. On this score, manufacturing is actually doing quite well in the U.S.

Ever see a farm auction? That's where the farmer loses his land and has to sell all his equipment and other possessions. Not a pretty sight.

[joesnuffy]

Merc Marine just sent its small outboard manufacturing to China

[dr_who_2]

Ever had to pay $7.00 for a small slab of cheese because of all the subsidies that enables these farmers to remain farmers? Not a pretty sight.

[dr_who_2]

That's nice.

[Archangelsk]

So you're equating having to voluntarily purchase cheese at an inflated price with going bankrupt and possibly destitute? Gee, harden your heart Pharoah.

[Archangelsk]

Oh, and the farmers I saw grew corn and soy, not cows.

[dr_who_2]

What, for Archer Daniels Midland?

[FITZ]

If free trade and globalism were working, the economy by now should be really steaming full blast ---- but not much in the economic news is very optimistic. The proof is in the pudding as they say.

[FITZ]

Actually, the machines are being physically shipped to Mexico and China

Sending maquilas to Mexico only brought millions of Mexicans flooding over the border to come here --- apparently those low wage jobs didn't really do much for them, I imagine in a few years, the Chinese will be coming over by the boatloads.

[Paul C. Jesup]

A Nation of Hamburger Flippers

Actually, soon even those jobs will not and option.

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(sarcasm) Well at the rate things are going, the only jobs left for Americans will be crime itself.