Posted on 02/16/2007 6:56:43 AM PST by Edit35
(cont)Casey is not expected to take responsibility for the loss, despite the fact that he, along with the Democrat machine, blamed previous Penna. Sen. Rick Santorum for every single job loss in the Keystone State over the past 12 years.
Hypocracy is not in the Democratic vocabulary, critics noted, except when Democrats are sliming Republicans with false accusations.
Of course this self written article is all tongue in cheek.
But it goes a long way to show how phony and slanted the media was this past election cycle in furthering Democratic propoaganda about the "reason" for any Pennsylvania job loss whatsoever.
How so? Read this in the WSJ this AM ... no mention of job loss attributed to Se. Bob Casey. Ross Perot use to speak about the giant sucking sound as jobs were lost to Mexico as a result of NA free trade agreement ... now you're beginning to see evidence.
Just as long as they don't raise the prices on my Reese's peanut butter cups.
And Sherrod Brown and Ted Strickland have cost Ohio Chrysler jobs. Aren't they off to a great start?
PA the land of shrinking jobs.
It was Republican Attorney General Mike Fisher (who lost to Rendell for governor in '02) who stepped in to stop the Hershey Trust from selling the shares it owned (I think 77% of the company) to Nestle. The company didn't want to sell, it was the Trust, which runs the Hershey School, that wanted to diversify its holdings.
Hershey wanted to keep everything in PA by raising new investment capital via a partnership with Nestle, but the state government forbid them to do so.
Then it must be the Trust that wants to make more money by moving to Mexico to hire legal Mexican citizens to make it's chocolate.
Actually, it's just the opposite. It is US restrictions on the import of sugar that has been driving American candy makers to both Canada and Mexico. Those import restrictions are designed to protect a mere handful of very wealth sugar cane farmers in Florida and Louisiana while killing many thousands of jobs in other states. But it's a very powerful lobby that has made American candy makers uncompetitive on the world market.
Well there's also the sugar beet farmers in the U.S. who produce far more than the sugar
cane people. Sugar imports coming from low cost production countries can impact prices
from U.S. sources to some extent, but not significantly.
AMEN!!!! Maybe these 'stay at home, show you a lesson' republicans we have in this state will get off their A$$es this next time and vote REPUBLICAN!!!!
This ironically, also plays into energy politics. Read this. http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/061127ta_talk_surowiecki
What’s stopping the U.S. from doing the same? In a word, politics. The favors granted to the sugar industry keep the price of domestic sugar so high that it’s not cost-effective to use it for ethanol. And the tariffs and quotas for imported sugar mean that no one can afford to import foreign sugar and turn it into ethanol, the way that oil refiners import crude from the Middle East to make gasoline. Americans now import eighty per cent less sugar than they did thirty years ago. So the prospects for a domestic-sugar ethanol industry are dim at best. We could, of course, simply import sugar ethanol. But here, too, politics has intervened: Congress has imposed a tariff of fifty-four cents per gallon on sugar-based ethanol in order to protect corn producers from competition. A recent study by Amani Elobeid and Simla Tokgoz, scientists at Iowa State University, projected that if the tariffs were removed prices would fall by fourteen per cent and Americans would use almost three hundred million gallons more of ethanol.But that isn’t likely to happen anytime soon: the Bush Administration proposed eliminating the ethanol tariff this past spring, but Congress quickly quashed the idea—Barack Obama was among several Midwestern senators who campaigned in support of the tariff—and the sugar quotas appear to be as sacrosanct as ever. Tariffs and quotas are extremely hard to get rid of, once established, because they create a vicious circle of back-scratching—government largesse means that sugar producers get wealthy, giving them lots of cash to toss at members of Congress, who then have an incentive to insure that the largesse continues to flow. More important, protectionist rules flourish because the benefits are concentrated among a small number of easy-to-identify winners, while the costs are spread out across the entire population. It may be annoying to pay a few more cents for sugar or ethanol, but most of us are unlikely to lobby Congress about it.
Maybe we should, though. Our current policy is absurd even by Washington standards: Congress is paying billions in subsidies to get us to use more ethanol, while keeping in place tariffs and quotas that guarantee that we’ll use less. And while most of the time tariffs just mean higher prices and reduced competition, in the case of ethanol the negative effects are considerably greater, leaving us saddled with an inferior and less energy-efficient technology and as dependent as ever on oil-producing countries. Because of the ethanol tariffs, we’re imposing taxes on fuel from countries that are friendly to the U.S., but no tax at all on fuel from countries that are among our most vehement opponents. Congressmen justify the barriers to foreign ethanol with talk of “energy security.” But how is the U.S. more secure when it has to import oil from Venezuela rather than ethanol from Brazil? These tariffs are bad economic policy, bad energy policy, and bad foreign policy. Talk about your Domino effect.
That's a little extreme! I was born in PA and after living in several other states, I live here now. Yep. We have problems. Everyone does. And yeah, Fast Eddie is a disaster.
But the mess on I-80 is an every winter event. And a foggy weather one as well. Typically, it's caused by someone driving too fast for conditions. I agree, PENNDOT might be able to do more, but you can't fix stupid in every driver.
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