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LET'S TALK ABOUT "YOUR" JOBS
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| Wednesday, February 18, 2004
| Neal Boortz
Posted on 02/18/2004 5:12:57 AM PST by beaureguard
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To: A. Pole; All
Who are the groups "negotiating" the "free trade" agreements in the Western Hemisphere that are wreaking so much havoc in the US economy?
The Tripartite Committee, which consists of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Organization of American States (OAS) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
So free trade in the western hemisphere is not negotiated by our congress and constitutional authorities but by the United Nations. Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that what is being negotiated is not free trade? How can anyone on this forum argue that "free trade" is good for America, when the interests of America are not considered at all in any of the "free trade" agreements that have created outsourcing, lowered the natural disinclination of a free people to trade with a nation that produces goods by slave labor, sold out Constitutional authority of our Congress to business councils and marxist federations of states, and given negotiating authority for US trade agreements to our arch enemy, the organization that despises everything American but our US taxpayer dollars, the United Nations?
To: raybbr; A. Pole; MissAmericanPie
If you read the charter, you will see that the FTAA is a marxist federation of states. There are no elections for the governing bodies, they are appointed.
All the people on this forum that argue for free trade, know full well that free trade is a way to implement global government and they support that. When they say there are no "American jobs" they are telling you what they believe, because they believe there is no America anymore, just a regional trade zone known as North America, with is just a cog in the Western Hemispheric Trade zone. And that is why they believe corporations do not have to support American values, ethics, or its national economy.
So in a way they are right, when America ceases to exist at the implementation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas pact, there will be no American jobs, because America will only be memory in the minds of the old folks.
To: The Mayor
Its this type of article that shows the outright avarice of people like Boortz. If he thinks that just because some CEO got a million dollar raise because he sent 5000 American jobs to India, than he is not doing a whole hell of alot for his country. I guess he scoffed at the "Buy American" campaign of Ronald Reagan.
To: Cronos
"What if we added Mexican states to the US..."
Actually, the reverse is becoming the case. Large parts of the USA are being added to Mexico through illegal immigration. Anschluss and lebensraum is calledAztlan and reconquista these days, with Bush's full compliance.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:35:18 AM PST
by
Mortimer Snavely
(Comitas, Firmitas, Gravitas, Humanitas, Industria)
To: MacDorcha
i work in a grocery store and live with my folks and pay for car and school at the same time. no loans. plan ahead, itll pay off. Are you serious? The average American family is a husband, wife and two kids. They don't live with mommie and daddie and cannot survive on your grocery store wage.
To: KC_Conspirator
He is a man who makes obscene amounts of money talking. He reminds me of the hollywood left in that they do not have real skills to do anything, make so much money as to lose touch with planet earth, and think they have an understanding of how the real world works. They don't seem to understand the world won't work if evereyone were yapping on the radio all day. So people have to actually do things, and be compensated.
And, of course don't dare get in the way of their "freedon" to buy products made in some third world tyrannical hell-hole.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:38:00 AM PST
by
briant
To: Mortimer Snavely
The idea here is not to increase the influence of America and American values in the hemisphere, but to dilute them or annihilate them.
To: beaureguard
As Bruce Bartlett says in an article listed in my reading assignments, "No nation has ever gotten rich by forcing its citizens to pay more for domestic goods and services that could have been procured more cheaply abroad."
Nonsense, how does Bruce think the United States nurtured fledgling industries for 150 years? That's right - tariffs. It's OK to have differing opinions, but not OK to be wrong in the facts used to support those opinions.
To: raybbr
It did. Neither I, nor anyone I know, spent the tax cut because of "fear for the economy".
I spent mine on a new bathtub. It is neither a Democratic nor a Republican tub.
To: Freedom4US
Nonsense, how does Bruce think the United States nurtured fledgling industries for 150 years? That's right - tariffs.Which, of course, led to the US Navy having to pay through the nose to buy ships from foreign shipyards in 1898, because we weren't building modern warships--our "protected" steel and shipbuilding industries were rather backward compared to everyone else's, especially free-trading Britain.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:48:55 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: MEG33
Sigh, here we go again.
I cant believe that defending the idea of good paying jobs for American gets you branded a democrat, DU plant, communist, socialist, etc. ,on this board.
I am an independent voter who has always voted republican until this year.
I have been on this board since 98 and I did a whole lot more than most people to get GW elected the first time.
Why cant you republicans see what you are doing? You are handing the government over to the Rat party on a sliver platter and you are so blind that you abuse and run off the very people that are trying to warn you!
The exporting of the American middle-class lifestyle will not be tolerated forever and if the Republican party is going to chain itself to the idea, then it will go down into the dustbin of history with it.
I dont care what your BS free trade theory is and neither do the people, many of whom were base republican voters, that are losing everything they had worked for, went to school for, sweated for, fought in wars for, because some poor sap in India is willing to do the job for starvation wages or a slave laborer in the workers paradise of Red China has a gun to his head held there by the communist government and Wal-Mart!!
Our government must protect the American people against aggression and attack from foreign countries and we are under attack NOW economically from countries that keep their tariffs against our goods, products, and services and manipulate their currencies to our disadvantage as well.
We sure as hell are not under any obligation to promote free trade with countries what cheat against us from day one of the trade agreement.
I realize that many on this board could care less if the majority of Americans are well off or not, but if you expect to have a national party based on the well-being of CEOs and their ravenous greed only, it wont work.
But go ahead, ride that horse right into the ground, dont let me or any of the many other people on this board that know what is going to happen stop you.
Maybe you will wake up after 8 years of demoRat rule, course it may be too late by then but, you had your chance
To: beaureguard
I'm still waiting for someone to open up that nationwide chain of stores that sell only "Made in America" goods. Or an investment club that specializes in companies that do all their hiring, etc., here in the US.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:49:55 AM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Think of all the accidents you never hear about because they don't happen.)
To: FITZ
There is Capitalism in third world countries --- such as Mexico ---- but very few participate in it ---- what those countries lack is a middle class. Here's a good example: Wasn't Mexico's petroleum industry actually developed by American corportations in the earlier part of the twentieth century? And then what happened? Oh yes! The corrupt Mexican government decided this was a pretty sweet deal, nationalized it and called it Pemex. I'm a little fuzzy on that now but that's what sticks in my mind.
So here's a thought! Since the government cannot stop any American corporation from outsourcing, maybe they ought to at least tell them that if they get taken over by some third world bandito, they are on their own and the American military absolutely will not come down to bail their sorry butts out! In other words, do it at your own risk and we're not sacrificing any American lives for your corporate treasury.
To: Cronos
And you are earning more than just being a slave to some big a** corporation?You got that right! I used to work for Ellen Ratner and her brother. So I am not giving anymore money directly or indirectly to the Rat-ner Party!
Pray for W and The Truth
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:53:33 AM PST
by
bray
(Comrade Kerry's got some splainin to do!!!)
To: Walkin Man
I hope those 6 thousand dollar shower curtains and 2 million dollar birthday parties... No, you have it backwards, it is the 2 mil shower curtains and 6 thou parties we hold for our children. Get your priorities straight man, or you will never be a eeeleeet rebublican money hungry, screw everyone but me type of guy. You will be a mere pawn, a poor underclassman, with nary a bridge to hovel under while you eat mulligan stew cooked over your meager fire in a used coffee can.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:55:41 AM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: navyblue; hchutch
In other words, you'd give every nation in the world a license to steal from Americans.
Followed by every country in the world taking you up on your offer.
Followed by giving every American's 401K a huge hit.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:55:42 AM PST
by
Poohbah
("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
To: StatesEnemy
And the COUNTRY belongs to US, not the Hyper-Capitalists. And who should the corporations belong to?
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:57:48 AM PST
by
BrooklynGOP
(www.logicandsanity.com)
To: raybbr
"The rest of us should satisfied with cheap crap, produced simply so that we can buy it so that the corporation will garner more profit."
Ok, what's your solution? But before you propose your solution, here's what you're tinkering with: a country in which most people own their own hones, own one or more cars, a computer, washer and dryer, electrical appliances, indoor plumbing, access to health care, free public education, etc, and with unemployment generally half of what it is in the socialist economies you seem to be promoting. Remind me what it is you are trying to fix.
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posted on
02/18/2004 9:58:20 AM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: novacation
"AOL's customer service is in Bombay"
And your computer was probably made in China, as are most toys in this country. If you insist the computer be made in the USA, the price will quadruple, sales will drop, stores will close, etc. People have been complaining about the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs for DECADES, yet somehow we still haven't attained Third World status.
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posted on
02/18/2004 10:02:52 AM PST
by
Steve_Seattle
("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
To: kaylar
And smug SOBs like the author of this screed need to remember...even in your job seems safe and unoutsourceable (eg,lawyer), how does that help you if-because of the loss first of manufacturing jobs, then of customer service jobs, then of white collar/professional jobs-no one can afford to buy your services? And if no one can afford to buy your services, then it should be obvious even to you that your income is going to plummet along with all the other riff raff!
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