Posted on 02/04/2009 2:40:10 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Nonsense...they buy their own cars and are not harmed...Hyundai is the only car company that made money in January. they have the strongest protection. They have the benefit of our market and their market...which leads to prosperity for their country...and bankruptcy for ours.
It also forced Japan to build transplants auto plants in the South. This provided jobs to these states.
It does not provide the wealth that manufacturing all products associated with your software would provide...you are on the retail end-lowest part in terms of wealth creation.
I'm with you on that, brother.
Illegal immigration is purely the provision of mass quantities of low skill labor (supply) which reduces prices (wages)of that labor among existing (Legal American) workers. That's not Free Trade. That's Invasion.
The biggest violation of American Sovereignty, the American Worker, Crime Victims, Fiscal Policy and respect for the rule of law has been the bi-partisan sell-out to Illegal Immigration. Democrats do it for votes. Republicans do it for industry and vanity. Both are traitors.
Lol! Busted.
It’s all related...the global traders understood our country would pay a price for so called free trade so they hedged their bets.
It should be noted that in 1936, Roosevelt who believed in a balance budget attempted to do just that...the result was a recession...unemployment jumped in 1937.
But you see the Chinese will eventually make the software as well or some other third world country will...this is the problem with trade as practiced today.
Not all nations are our enemies...mostly I think China is our enemy and I would not help them at all...free trade is allowing them to do what Reagan did to the Soviet union...bankrupt us.
Wealth could be generated in the USA by using our natural resources and adding value through processing the resource into a finished product.
The left has pretty much put the harvest of any natural resources off limits and killed most of the ability to add value with manufacturing. EPA, OSHA, and more alphabet names that I can recall stand ready to harass and harangue the entrepreneur. In addition we have the highest corporate tax rate of all of our trading partners except Japan.
So, what do you do now?
Sounds like you want it both ways... that's, okay everyone wants a free lunch.
But think for a minute: What if our .gov had only an whiskey tax and custom duties (tariffs if you will) to support the whole dam thing.
You claim to want small government and less interference with your affairs?
Starve the beast, eliminate the IRS and go with taxes on imports!
| Year | Unemployment rate |
|---|---|
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1923-29 |
3.3 |
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1930 |
8.9 |
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1931 |
15.9 |
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1932 |
23.6 |
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1933 |
24.9 |
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1934 |
21.7 |
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1935 |
20.1 |
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1936 |
17.0 |
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1937 |
14.3 |
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1938 |
19.0 |
|
1939 |
17.2 |
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1940 |
14.6 |
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1941 |
9.9 |
|
1942 |
4.7 |
I understand, but I’m waiting to hear who scored the big money permanently by raising prices after they dumped. I know the Japanese had low prices, high quality, and efficient production. But they did not put U.S. steel out of business by dumping and then subsequently raising the price. I think they kept prices low, because the Koreans, Russians, and others were right behind them.
“Dumping”, a.k.a. low prices by comparatively more efficient competitors, may well have put the U.S. steel industry out of business. We also don’t make textiles. There has been lots of dislocation as old textile and steel workers were put out of work. Understood.
But that does not conclude the argument in favor of protection, or prove that dumping actually occurred. All it does is prove that a more price competitive entity won. We lost. Get over it.
The only proof that dumping would work is if it was followed quickly by high prices, which were not able to be undone by the next dumper. I am still standing by for (and amenable changing my opinion based on) historic examples where dumping actually worked in the long run for the dumper.
Post 233, ibid.
At least McCain could get into the Naval Academy. Can't say the same for his critics.
The federal government doesn’t. The state does.
Most reviews of wages show the rich got rich, and the poor stayed the same. I'll stipulate two major exeptions to that:
1) Illegal immigration has been the biggest lever keeping wages of the poor low. See my rabid anti-illegal post above.
2) Adjusted for health care benefits received, my understanding is that the poor got richer too. The only problem is that all their earnings increases were eaten up by company run (non-competitive, non-economic, high cost) health care plans. If we had had a Free Market in Health Care, actual income gains probably would have occurred.
The federal government doesn’t. The state does.
The industries lost in the last 20 years were lost because of dumping...garment, electronics,steel, auto etc. I agree regulation needs to be overhauled...We can and must do this if we are to restore American prosperity...as for taxes...large business do not pay the full rate...they have many deductions. Small business gets hurt with higher taxes and something needs to be done about that.Small business is very important but it will never be able to carry the economy on its own...bring back manufacturing. It will be provide a prosperity for our children and our grandchildren.
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