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To: LowCountryJoe
You congratulate them on their job of course. There is no zero sum where someone will lose a job due to theirs. Where you apply your principles is when they spend the money from that job. Do they squander it on low quality imported consumables? The best example was last Christmas's cheap Chinese DVD players that shoppers stampeded for. I have no gripes with people who want to watch DVDs, but I do have a gripe with people who squander the savings from that purchase.

The free traders will give the spurious argument that the cheap DVD players raise our standard of living. They may do that, but it is temporary. It would be better for everyone including that consumer to buy one long lasting American product (e.g. shoes) than a cheap DVD player and a pair of cheap Chinese shoes, both of which will be worn out in a year.

Laugh all you want at my examples, but we are trading the family jewels for knock-off plastic trinkets.

27 posted on 02/23/2004 4:12:17 AM PST by palmer (Solutions, not just slogans -JFKerry)
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To: palmer; LowCountryJoe; hchutch; Texasforever
I have no gripes with people who want to watch DVDs, but I do have a gripe with people who squander the savings from that purchase.

Ah, yes. You want to control how the "sheeple" will spend their money--for their own good, of course.

28 posted on 02/23/2004 4:16:06 AM PST by Poohbah ("Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?" -- Maj. Vic Deakins, USAF)
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