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To: BlueStateMadness
Protectionism isn’t the answer. Free trade enhances competition and drives prices down. You’re advocating a lower standard of living for Americans, and empowerment of a regulated economy.

Complete nonsense...A men's shirt that costs 10 cents to produce in China or Indonesia still sells for 20 bucks at JC Penney's...

A snowblower produced in China this year costs more than last year's American made model...

And then the jobs are gone from America...

64 posted on 11/11/2012 11:25:31 AM PST by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailerpark...)
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To: Iscool

The same shirt made in the us costs $45. Now in clothing yourself you can no longer afford steak. I hope you like chicken. Or ramen noodles.

That Chinese snowblower may be a higher quality model or in higher demand.

Microeconomic examples to disprove macroeconomic principals.

Notcool, you do not determine what the market will bear. You would only screw up the information inherent in the pricing system.

Why do I feel like Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue show? That’s also way before my time.


66 posted on 11/11/2012 11:40:05 AM PST by BlueStateMadness (Two commonly violated premises: you can save people from themselves, and the free lunch myth)
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To: Iscool

How in the world did the USA survive economically before Nixon gave a wet kiss to the ChiComs? I grew up in the 60’s. Everything my parents bought me was probably made in the USA. What is different now? Nothing really. Nixon was a bastard.


82 posted on 11/11/2012 5:51:31 PM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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