Posted on 01/31/2010 6:42:57 PM PST by ianfletcher
One of the positive reviewers of the book is Dan DiMicco, CEO of Nucor steel. Nucor is nonuion and very successful.
Yes military equipment, and everything else for that matter, is complex. Do you know where every screw, circuit and wire in your computer comes from? Of course not.
By the same token it’s an issue that can be handled. Iraq had a huge lead up, we could have bought extras or in sourced. The problems we ran into were a matter of not thinking through the logistics, that kind of failure doesn’t really get any better without free trade.
Thanks for posting this. If this name:
“Jim Hightower, Bestselling author, national radio and newspaper commentator, and editor of The Hightower Lowdown.”
does not bring all Freepers to see the light on the great benefits of free trade, I am not sure what will.
As to these names:
“Bill Bullard, CEO, R-CALF USA (Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America)
Brian O’Shaughnessy, Chairman, Revere Copper Products; Co-Chair, Coalition for a Prosperous America
John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO and author of and author of America Needs a Raise: Fighting for Economic Security and Social Justice.
Gavin Fridell, author of Fair Trade Coffee: the Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice, Assistant Professor of Politics at Trent University.
Dan DiMicco, Chairman and CEO, Nucor Steel Corporation and author of Steeling America’s Future: a CEO’s Call to Arms.
Pat Choate, Running mate of Ross Perot in 1996 and author of Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America.
Leo W. Gerard, President, United Steelworkers.
Bob Baugh, Executive Director, AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council “
Freepers need to know you want them on the same side as Unions and Big Business. And what was it Adam Smith pointed out about owner getting together... Oh wait you Adam Smith is no one to you, you go with Union bosses, right? You imagine that when workers and bosses agree on something like protection it is necessarily good for consumer or the rest of us right?
And then there are the loons. I have kept a couple of examples:
“Gavin Fridell, author of Fair Trade Coffee: the Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice, Assistant Professor of Politics at Trent University.
Pat Choate, Running mate of Ross Perot in 1996 and author of Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America.”
certainly all Freepers want to side with Social Justice guys and Perotistas. Too bad they did not go for the big guns and get Obama and Osama to endorse this book. They are both against Free Trade too and I know all Freepers know they are the side they want to be on.
Again thanks for posting this. With endorsements like this book has, perhaps we can get all Freepers on the side of FREEDOM on this issue as in freedom to trade with whomever you think will benefit you the most.
Yeah. There was no industrial revolution before the forties. My grandfather, who was a petrolium engineer in the thirties was just hoping it would turn into a career someday, no doubt.
We know this is a lie. Compare the Chinese now to the 1970s starving.
Do you always sound like Brezhnev's "Pravda" or only today?
You may have failed to have noticed that the some corporations, namely British colonies on this continent, "took over" the British "political system." You find this corporate action contemptible?
What's more troubling is that you speak like all commies: no reasoning, no arguments, just overreaching statements about complex phenomena as if they were trivial. Silly. And leftist. You do sound like Willie Green who cannot find anything positive about the free-market system.
What ever happened to Fair Trade?
I didn’t say that. Try sticking with what was actually said.
Same old claptrap. But hey, if you’re lucky Obama will manage to start a trade war with china and some other countries and we’ll see the wonderful effects of it on our economy and our country’s future.
Free trade with most of Asia has been an unmitigated disaster.
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Not only are we forced to compete with companies that operate cheaper and get their raw materials more cheaply than we do because of a lack of environmental regulations but our intellectual property is stolen wholesale or security features are reverse engineered inviting piracy to flourish.
Our companies are taxed to death ... Our costs are way out of whack due to environmental regs and the legal profession ... our patents are ignored , products copied and the incentive to create in software or engineering is beaten out of us with the knowledge that H1-B’s are there to put you out of work the minute you gain enough experience to merit higher pay.
if
The supposedly former navy nitwit was basing his argument on “if”
” no reasoning, no arguments, just overreaching statements about complex phenomena as if they were trivial.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!! Typical free trader.
You are claiming that we need to protect the US steel industry SOLELY in the name of national security. If we protect these industries, how will the unions help with your national security goals?
Thank you for that excellent description.
We are plunging headlong as a nation, to ruin.
And the brainwashed “free traders” will be shouting “go go go” right to the moment we crash into the ground
We are making our future enemies richer, more capable, more powerful and more industrial.
We are making America poorer, less capable, weaker and dependent upon people who hate us.
Wake up people.
How did I cut and paste it then. The US had ceased being an agrarian society by the roaring twenties.
Your basic premise is flawed. We do not and cannot have free trade. We have a collection of very complex trade agreements along with international groups that resolve disputes about the agreements. The agreements have many flaws and countries try to gain competitive advantage in various ways. The US plays heavy with trade agreements so the situation is not so asymmetric.
I do not believe that the trade agreements are the fundamental problem. The fundamental problem is our growing lack of competitiveness. Unions, trial lawyers, and environmentalists along with rat political control has eroded our competitive level. If unions had their way about trade agreements, the price of goods and services would increase substantially and the quality would decrease. In just one year, the rats have dropped a debt on us that we may never recover.
See here’s what I said: we were still mostly an agrarian society
And then here’s what you said: There was no industrial revolution before the forties.
Notice the rather large difference between mostly agrarian and no industrial revolution. See what you did is twisted what I said into something else to pretend you actually have a point, and you structured it into an insult, which proves you don’t.
How would anyone know this? Very few, and the good ole USA is certainly not among them, have attempted it in any of our lifetimes!
Yes. If there is war.
Walter williams based his response on peace as a given.
You can, of course choose which nit wittery you wish to allign with. Tell me how does this always peace on earth thing come about?
In all my years in the military, I never learned how you could have peace and prosperity without the strength to defend it through force of arms.
You can sometimes have peace without strength for a little while if you are a little impoverished hell hole nobody would want.
Your screen name is certainly indicative of the substance of your reasoning.
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