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Meanwhile, China, India, Indonesia and other countries thrive.
1 posted on 11/11/2010 9:33:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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The Benefits of Free Trade ping


2 posted on 11/11/2010 9:35:45 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit.)
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First off the Great Recession hasn’t ended and secondly we do know the cause of the job losses.


3 posted on 11/11/2010 9:41:06 PM PST by Patrick1 (I'm a soldier of good fortune, I'm guarding the Yucatan.)
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Hasn’t this been the intent since Jan 20, 2010?


4 posted on 11/11/2010 9:51:27 PM PST by J Edgar
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my father spoke frequently when I was a child about the destruction of the middle class. I think in many ways he was ahead of his time.


7 posted on 11/11/2010 10:00:39 PM PST by television is just wrong
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GLOBALISM G-O-B-A-L-I-S-M

Sponsored by both the Rats and the GOP, it has exported American jobs overseas to the point where we make nearly NOTHING we consume here anymore.

The ONLY people to benefit are Wall Street and the Commodity dealers. Everyone is being degraded to third world status in what was once the most affluent nation on earth.


8 posted on 11/11/2010 10:03:48 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization.)
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The result is the same in all cases, however. Jobs that paid well, required skills and produced vital communities are going away and aren't being replaced by anything comparable.

But as the major trade deals were made, the American people were assured (for 20 or more years) that they would be retrained for the "high tech, high paying" jobs of the future. Well, the future is here, so where are the high tech, high paying jobs for all the retrained workers?

Those who've pushed these policies for years are running out of lies. Now about all they have is: "It's a global economy."

Unless there is quick and substantial improvement, these policies will become the hot political issues of the near future.

9 posted on 11/11/2010 10:05:42 PM PST by Will88
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I’m seriously thinking about giving up myself. darn ran out of rope and in freefall for the past 2 and a half years Struggling to make these house payments in a socialist economy is no fun at sll, two part time jobs aint even enough,


10 posted on 11/11/2010 10:16:29 PM PST by KTM rider ( Liberty is hijacked by the wealthy elite, US political system is their mercenary force)
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The well-paying, predominantly white-collar jobs that once sustained many American communities are disappearing at an alarming rate, keeping the unemployment rate stubbornly high despite the end of the Great Recession.

I wonder how many saw the irony in the term, "Service Economy" twenty years ago? Anybody who didn't see the Internet and supply chain automation cutting out those positions wasn't awake.

12 posted on 11/11/2010 10:26:33 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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Why would someone want to be a software engineer anyway? Just have a few kids, work at Wal-Mart or a restaurant, and get on ‘Food Stamps’..... The new American Dream.

(thanks globalists)


13 posted on 11/11/2010 10:37:43 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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"Meanwhile, China, India, Indonesia and other countries thrive."

In many ways they are more capitalist than we are.

14 posted on 11/11/2010 10:37:43 PM PST by TopQuark
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“More troubling, these jobs in accounting, financial analysis, commercial printing and a broad array of other mostly white-collar occupations are unlikely to come back, experts predict. “

Yes, they will be hard to get back with Obama’s current policy of Wall Street bashing.


15 posted on 11/11/2010 10:38:35 PM PST by ari-freedom (Islam is at war against America, while America is at the mall.)
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“Meanwhile, China, India, Indonesia and other countries thrive.”

I went out to buy BR40 120 watt bulbs today. GE used to make them here in the US. I was told the Obama administration has banned them. My only choice was to buy CFLs made in China. I can't use them because my house is wired with electronic dimmers. It's getting rather dark in here.

FUBO
FUBO
FUBO

20 posted on 11/11/2010 10:41:30 PM PST by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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Funny, my liberty was downsized when Obama took power....


21 posted on 11/11/2010 10:43:48 PM PST by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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every US president does the same thing.
they want foreign-policy-convienence,
so they trade away US jobs.

do you think our ‘’’allies’’’
want to be in A’stan?

of course not.
they are paid off, with one-way trade deals


25 posted on 11/11/2010 10:51:58 PM PST by Talf
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despite the end of the Great Recession.

Really?

38 posted on 11/11/2010 11:32:37 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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America will NEVER be able to compete with China as long as the capital gains tax rates are 0% there, and up to 35% here.

It is by design.


58 posted on 11/12/2010 12:31:07 AM PST by kingpins10
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We need a president that can lead! All that has to be done is lower the corp rate tax to 10% Loosen regulations so that companies can compete. Give companies tax breaks for creating jobs here...The more jobs they create the bigger the tax break!


59 posted on 11/12/2010 12:33:05 AM PST by tallyhoe
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They do not have the EPA, OSHA, HIPPA and ERISA to deal with.


71 posted on 11/12/2010 2:40:06 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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“...jobs in accounting, financial analysis, commercial printing and a broad array of other mostly white-collar occupations are unlikely to come back, experts predict...”


72 posted on 11/12/2010 3:04:44 AM PST by Repeal The 17th
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If you look at the U.S. skill base, it just isn’t all that skilled. Our education system is the underlying long-term problem. Along with so-called free trade. Add in an unhealthy amount of regulation, government mandates, and tax disincentives and you have to wonder how our economy is doing as well as it is.


73 posted on 11/12/2010 3:08:49 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Palin 2012: Renew, Revive, and Restore)
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