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To: sarcasm
Globalization expands economic freedom and encourages competition, increases productivity and living standards of people in countries that encourage the global marketplace.

PROBLEM: In order to enjoy these advantages, nations need to reform their incompetent corrupt immoral power structures and join in a modern banking system that allows the free flow of capital.

Politicians like Chuckie Schumer who argue for restrictions and barriers in order to maintain their power over fearful workers simply need to shut up because they are part of the problem not the solution.

16 posted on 01/10/2004 3:13:19 PM PST by eleni121 (Preempt and Prevent)
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To: eleni121
I note that you have failed to address any of the points in the article.
17 posted on 01/10/2004 3:16:15 PM PST by sarcasm (Tancredo 2004)
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To: eleni121
If you think NYS is in bad shape now, just hang on for another twenty years.
26 posted on 01/10/2004 3:59:52 PM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
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To: eleni121
PROBLEM: In order to enjoy these advantages, nations need to reform their incompetent corrupt immoral power structures and join in a modern banking system that allows the free flow of capital.

Politicians like Chuckie Schumer who argue for restrictions and barriers in order to maintain their power over fearful workers simply need to shut up because they are part of the problem not the solution.

This seems like it will only accelerate our downfall. If we relax our restrictions, it will be a total free-for-all for the corporations to get money out of the country and into developing ones. Here is the second paragraph you refered to when you assaulted westerfield:

Ricardo's wage theory has seemed untrue. The supply of competent workers in a given place is not unlimited; neither workers nor industry are perfectly mobile, and labor demonstrated in the 19th and 20th centuries that it could mobilize and defend itself. The iron law of wages would seem to function only if the supply of labor is infinite and totally mobile.

The issue is that the many high-tech industries, such as software development, are totally mobile, and they can go to places with decent educational systems and large numbers of people willing to work for significantly less for what people are payed here (India and China to name two). This fits the conditions for Ricardo's law to work.

By making it easier for capital to flow, it would appear as though it would flow entirely out of the country, and the problem is that this money is coming out of the pockets of the middle class, for it is they who are losing their jobs.

34 posted on 01/10/2004 4:32:23 PM PST by psychoknk
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To: eleni121; A. Pole
Globalization expands economic freedom and encourages competition, increases productivity and living standards of people in countries that encourage the global marketplace. United States does encourage the global marketplace. I do not see an increase in the living standards, though.
81 posted on 01/11/2004 3:06:43 AM PST by Feldkurat_Katz (if they are gay, why are they always complaining?)
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