To: discostu
And Hitler surely won't turn around and attack Russia knowing the butt kicking Napoleon took... History can lend insight - but in this case, there is no historical context with which one can compare because it's never been done before. And for good reason.
Comparative Advantage doesn't exist currently. And thats a foundation stone for free trade - required as it were. So there is good reason to prognosticate doom when there is no history to compare to, you're fooling with a theory whose baseline requirements for implementation haven't been met and the only result gleaned has been the ruin of people and an attack on middle class incomes that is growing to an all out assault. And we aren't talking about Japan here are we. We're talking about companies expecting the US to hand it's jobs to every 50 cent a day worker on the planet - numbering in the multiples over the sum total of US citizens so they can make themselves rich, tell us how rosey things are and in the meantime laugh apparently at the destruction they've wrought because they can't control things here and seem to think it's their birthright. If Congress don't reign you unethical twits in, the American people will reign it all in.
566 posted on
04/13/2004 10:27:23 AM PDT by
Havoc
("The line must be drawn here. This far and no further!")
To: Havoc
History does lend insight. Here's the insight it lends:
1 - there's always somebody complaining that some other country is about to destroy/ take over/ subjugate/ overrun America
2 - they've never been right
3 - looking at the actual manufacturing and other economic data for the last year clearly indicates that the American economy is quite healthy and in no danger of being exported out of the country
4 - the paranoid doom and gloomers always ignore item 3
5 - the paranoid doom and gloomers always say "this isn't like that other time"
6 - this always winds up being like that other time
There's your free insight for the day.
567 posted on
04/13/2004 10:49:22 AM PDT by
discostu
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