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To: Gen-X-Dad
we were the only idiots to allow the multinational corporations the ability to destroy our industrial base so they could fatten their bottom line

So just how far are you willing to go restricting people's and corporations' liberties to enact your version of fairness and utopia? And given how the collective good as you see it is obviously so much more important than individual liberties you are willing to trample, how are you in any way, shape, matter or form a conservative?

55 posted on 03/01/2010 10:11:09 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: Minn; DesertRhino; Gen-X-Dad
So just how far are you willing to go restricting people's and corporations' liberties to enact your version of fairness and utopia?

As far as it takes to get you to stop spouting knee-jerk mindless strawmen instead of engaging in honest rational discussion.

The problem with politics, economics, and business is that they place too much stress on "metrics" and "models" to the point that they forget that these are only approximations; causing them to overlook or to deny inherent risks. See also "black swan events" and / or "collaterallized debt swaps" for a recent catastrophic example.

You also appear to be dangerously naive, and covering for it by a thin shell of pseudo-intellectual bluster.

Remember the line about "Each job shipped to China or India creates 1.4 jobs here"?

Hmmm, does that mean our Drecession (recession on the edge of Depression) is due to China and India's woes? Or is the converse what happened.

The rush to offshore has been due to short-term greed based on wage arbitrage, coupled with false promises of infinite markets of new consumers (to replace the so-called aging US population). Look at the Demographics of the US vs. Europe, Japan, and China. China has a VERY short-term bump of people in prime "consuming years" before a massive spike in average age -- due to the one-child policy. Not to mention their government is now beginning to shut out Western companies in preference to their own, to supply their internal markets...now that they have appropriated our latest technology. And they are sociologically incapable of their own research: see here.

Cheers!

66 posted on 03/02/2010 3:21:07 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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