All your market, are belong to us...BANZAI!!!!!!
Posted on 02/29/2004 6:32:10 AM PST by GaryL
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:33 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Some years ago, the distinguished international-trade economist Jagdish Bhagwati was visiting Cornell University, giving a lecture to graduate students during the day and debating Ralph Nader on free trade that evening. During his lecture, Prof. Bhagwati asked how many of the graduate students would be attending that evening's debate. Not one hand went up.
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Cheney owned stock in Halliburton, that didn't make him ineligible to run. Once elected, as an ethical matter, his portfolio went into blind trust (I bet Halliburton stock is still there).
But, that's what I mean about false impressions, I would rather have Cheney as VP than some career politician who never made more than $140K in his life.
But, I believe FEC would take action if they saw a violation of the law, or a clear conflict of interest. Of all the Fed agencies, FEC actually does pretty well.
Although there is another FR thread right now folks are upset the FEC is checking out Sharpton's use of money, but not Kerry's $6M mortgage.
I don't know if we can ever get money out of politics.
But I do know this, money doesn't corrupt politicians - they corrupt themselves.
Wait a second-- when a US manufacturer opens a plant in China, it's good for China at our expense. And when some foreigner opens a plant in the US it's bad for us and they profit?
Am I missing something?
None..........all are sold here in the USA. These cars are referred to as "transplants"
Am I missing something?
One of us is.
When a US manufacturer opens a plant in China, it's good for China at our expense
It's at our expense (jobs wise) when the plant in China isn't for the China market but rather the US market...How many Chinese plants are in the US and other than manufacturing eqiupment from closed plants , what is exported to China?
Toyota didn't build a plant here for their Japanese market...get it?
The US manufacturing plant in China uses Chinese labor to produce goods. The goods and profits are sent back to the US.
"good" and "bad" depend on whether you're the consumer, the capitalist, the worker, or the unemployed worker.
Unlike American corporations, Toyota is not outsourcing their labor for the Japanese market. If Ford or GM , for example, want to build plants in China or Japan for those markets so be it.
I never used the words good or bad, though you put them in quotes.
I do, you can't. But in the words of Jesse Unruh, "If you can't take their money, f*** their women, and then vote against them, you don't belong in politics."
I believe I can live with campaign finance disclosure. But I still wonder about those cattle futures...
But, because those cattle futures were a done deal she had concluded long before she ever sought office, that deal would not have required "disclosure," at least I don't think so.
And, it was "her" trade way back when, not Bubba's, at least technically, - so it didn't hit his disclosure either.
Most crooks are congenital crooks, and they're gonna connive and finagle all they can to avoid rational disclosure.
Just like the cattle futures, the people are gonna have to smoke out these charlatans and expose them for who they really are.
Disclosure is kinda like Gun Control.
The good guys will disclose truthfully, giving up their privacy.
The bad guys will not disclose truthfully and they lose nothing - not even their privacy.
Until they get caught -- which, eventually, they will.
Henry Ford was the owner of an American company, building cars in America.
We have been suckered into believing that maintaining our inflated wages is so important, that we are willing to become the employees of a nation we defeated half a century ago.
Protecting our auto manufacturing jobs translated into selling our market to the Japanese.
Guess what the two best selling cars in America are today?
#1 -- Camry
#2 -- Accord
We've lost our own market, and now work for foreign firms.
All your market, are belong to us...BANZAI!!!!!!
...Paralleling Ford's domestic growth was a foreign >expansion program which began in 1904, just one year after the company was formed. On Aug.17 of that year, a modest plant opened in the small town of Walkerville, Ontario, with the imposing name of Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. From this small beginning grew an overseas organization of manufacturing plants, assembly plants, parts depots and dealers, with Ford represented in some 200 countries and territories around the world. About 60,000 companies worldwide supply Ford with goods and services.
More than 338,000 men and women now come to work each day in Ford factories, laboratories and offices around the world. Ford products are sold in more than 200 nations and territories by a global network of some 10,500 dealers. And the company's annual sales exceed the gross national products of many industrialized nations. With 6.7 million car and commercial vehicle sales in 1994, Ford held a 13 percent global share....
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Ford was the first international company. Within three years of its founding, Ford was exporting cars to Europe. Within ten years, Ford had assembly plants in Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, and Japan, Henry Ford's policy was to become a contributing citizen in every country where Ford sold cars. His slogan was "Build them where you sell them."
Doing the work Americans won't do.
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