To: sarcasm
In the other corner, we have South Carolina Sen. Fritz Hollings. In his retirement speech last month, he reprised his famous skepticism about expanding trade to the detriment of American factory jobs. With harder times, he should be receiving a more careful hearing. Hollings recalled how former Sony Chairman Akio Morita equated developing a strong manufacturing capability to becoming a nation-state. Morita "pointed and said to me about the United States: 'That world power that loses its manufacturing capacity will cease to be a world power.' "
Sheesh sars, going down to the level of printing an article from a liberal newspaper, that praises Fritz Hollings.
Yunz gloom and doomers are desperate.
Oh BTW, just a question, has Japan taken over the world yet?
3 posted on
08/24/2003 9:59:50 AM PDT by
Dane
To: Dane
"Free trade" is the traditional doctrine of Democrats - are you, or were you, one?
6 posted on
08/24/2003 10:05:39 AM PDT by
sarcasm
(Tancredo 2004)
To: Dane
As a general rule, free traitors smirk like gated community fat cats.
For your information, blue collar workers, people without college educations, have never recovered from the end of manufacturing. They have gone steadily downhill since the 70's. For them, it most definitely has been gloom and doom as they have nothing like the standard of living their parents did. Look at the cities of the Northeast, none of whom recovered from the collapse of manufacturing.
Your kind of fat cat smirking made Bush I a one term president. It will do the same for Bush II unless he gets ahead of this issue.
All his trend lines are down.
To: Dane
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/959787/posts Lawmaker predicts defeat for 'Buy American' language (Defense Department procurement update)
"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade." ~ Karl Marx, On the Question of Free Trade, January 9, 1848
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/01/09ft.htm#marx "Communists and socialists feel sure that setting up international “free” trade systems which impose regulations chuck full of intrigues, redistribution plans, arbitrary law, and interdependence schemes, will win out against the conservative interests of every free nation. What could be better than to use “free” trade to reverse the advantage of the relatively free, moral, prosperous,
and strong nations of the Earth, so that the tyrannical, amoral, poor, and weak nations of the socialist bloc might get the upper hand? What could be a more cunning approach than to market the idea that those who oppose “free” trade are enemies of freedom?"
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To: Dane
Oh BTW, just a question, has Japan taken over the world yet? No, Japan proved to have their own problems. In any case, that was a different problem than the current outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries. In the case of Japan, it was thought by many that they were beating us in straight head-to-head competition, through better management techniques and a more dedicated workforce. In the case of low-wage countries, however, they are beating us, to a large degree, because they have a much lower cost of living. They can hire workers at salaries that workers in this country could not survive on. Could you compete with someone whose cost of living was one fourth of yours? Under these conditions, free trade does not represent the freedom to hire the most skilled and dedicated workers. It represents the freedom of corporations to use arbitrage to benefit from the differences in the cost of living in different countries.
97 posted on
08/24/2003 10:37:57 PM PDT by
remember
To: Dane
Perhaps you would care to list those "powerful" nations of the world that lack manufacturing capacity?
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