Posted on 10/29/2003 11:21:43 AM PST by GrandMoM
Poland in XVIIIc? I am sure there are more examples - "there is no new thing under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9 - "nihil sub sole novum").
Considering the amount of money and effort already expended to forge relationships with PLA officials, the Free Traitors have a large investment in treason.
And when the domestic production is eliminated, they may!
That is the Walmart Model. Get real large and buy your Communist Kitch by the container load, then dump the products on the market, overwhelming the smaller operations that can't purchase full containers nor dictate terms to the suppliers. The Free Traitors are correct in this regard - Walmart has saved the US consumer over $10 billion when calculated at the cash register. Free Traitors will never tell you the costs that don't show up on your receipt.
Palm, as in the makers of the Palm Pilot, deliberately designed the original Zire to be at what the marketers consider a "Single Decision Price". What they mean by that is that the price is so low that the purchaser doesn't need to share the decision to buy with their spouse (as one would do with a $800 TV, or a set of Ping golf clubs). The goal is that a person would see the Palm in it's shrinkwrap container and make a spontaneous purchase. Where am I going with this? Walmart has converted more and more items to "Single Decision" products - this procedure has enabled people to have less discretion in their purchases, allowing people to piss away their money on non-necessary goods. Ultimately this junk ends up in the sanitary land-fill - bypassing the garage sale since it is so crappy in the first place, and for the privlege of being able to make spontaneous irresponsible purchases of junk, we are said to save $10 billion. Oh boy.
Or just open fire...
These products would last only a limited time and the buyers had to toss it, because the warranty had expired. Know anything about this??????
You are correct. And that day is coming sooner than you might think. Of course, those "American interests" will not be the same "American interests" that you might be expecting them to be (you and I, and most Americans, might not be included in them).
Massive MEGA-BUMP for that one.
I grew up 'back in those days'. "Back in those days" a man almost always supported his family on his own wages alone. Women generally did not work and stayed home to raise the children. Families were usually larger as well, which make the discrepancy even greater. Today, it almost always takes both the man and the woman working to maintain the same lifestyle (some would argue the the lifestyle has degenerated), and large numbers of people require government assistance of some sort as well.
If that's the way you feel. If not, try a Google-search on "wto+ruling."
It seems you have selective hearing. This is because you must shill for the Hate America crowd, and therefore you ignore the parts that say that the money raised by tariffs (a tax on foreign producers and domestic consumers), is used to reduce taxes on domestic producers and thus makes domestic products cheaper for everyone.
You prefer to keep Americans uncompetitive and you prefer to maximize the penalties on US Producers and minimize penalites on foreign Producers. That makes you a traitor to this country and a whore to China.
We need fewer people like you, and more patriots.
Being stupid doesn't help make your comment witty.
I know being a Libertarian is a mental defect, so therefore you don't understand Cause & Effect. But for those who read these things and aren't constrained like you by their own penchant for anti-Americanism, tariffs tax the other guy. Since you are pro-Chinese, pro-Malaysian, pro-Mexican, anti-American, this probably causes you great distress and emotional turmoil to even contemplate passing the tax burden from American workers to foreign workers who only see the United States as a place to dump their products and their unwanted citizens.
I know that Libertarians wish to see the present mechanism of penalizing profits and taxing the American producers continue. Any thought of reducing taxes on US citizens by transfering those taxes to foreign businesses probably makes you break out in hives. That is why you write stupid and vapid dreck like you did.
Tariffs can reduce taxes on American workers. Certainly when tariffs are placed on goods that can be made domestically, then American workers are more competitive and can be hired. But you, like your Liberal bretheren wish to see American workers stay on the unemployement line and depend on government to survive. You would much rather see Chinese slave labor goods sold in the US at "dumping" prices because you would rather see the Chinese military use money from American consumers to build weapons to spread their Communism. Again, your goals are identical to your leftist bretheren.
Tariffs do make products cheaper - usually in the long run. If the reason why products are not made domestically is because of the high cost of labor and the regulation that accompanies labor, then labor is often replaced with technology (requiring high-tech workers to design and build such automation). Presently, it is easier and cheaper to use slave labor, but if these low prices due to slave labor are raised by tariffs, then that advantage is lost and then automation becomes more attractive. There is a reason why hand-crafted cars cost considerably more than mass-produced types. Apparently as a Libertarian, you prefer to see more slavery and less technology.
Your comment "Freedom is Slavery" seems to be a Freudian slip, and you are really stating what you truly believe.
And last, "War is Peace" comes straight from the aparatchiks of the Communist Party. The Marxists accused Ronald Reagan for wanting to go to war by building the MX and Peace Keeper missles, and later by introducing SDI. By you parroting perfectly the rhetoric of the Marixsts, you are showing the Libertarian philosophical roots in global tyranny. As you may know, the Libertarian Party was totally for the US not defending herself against terrorism, and the Libertarians joined their bretheren arm in arm to protest the miltiary operations in Iraq. Clearly, the Libertarians believe that people should be under the power of totalitarians and dictators. That is why you borrow from your communist buddies and say "War is Peace" in such a mocking way.
Thanks again for your determined efforts to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Libertarians are really Marxists the means may on the surface appear different but the ends are indistinguishable.
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