Posted on 09/27/2004 4:16:06 PM PDT by Destro
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Back then the American cars were so poorly made that you were lucky if they lasted 3 years.
With free trade, you get paid what you are worth, not what you make people pay for what you think you are worth.
If you screw bumpers on cars, you are not worth $40 an hour. You are worth $7 an hour.
If you are a longshoreman in LA, pulling levers, you are not worth $120k a year. You are worth $12.
Unions need to die.
More nonsense.
As trade barriers are dumped French and Germans are seeing their jobs outsourced to Eastern Europe. It's a very big issue there, especially when these self same Eastern Europeans come with their hands out for EU subsidies. If the EU constitution is rejected, that will be the primary reason why.
The British model of free trade worked while England was the primary industrial power in the world. When it wasn't after 1870 it should have shifted to protectionism. It didn't. Joseph Chamberlain and other far sighted Edwardian politicians tried to shake the complacency of free trade without any success. Result ? The proximate cause of the collapse of British power. That English industry could not equip mass conscript armies in two world wars.
And technological change is a constant but not a change in value. A family car in 2004 is better than a family car in 1970. But the family in 1970 bought the car that was available to them. And it cost the same, adjusted for inflation, as the car of 2004. To consider technological change a change in value would result in some truly silly things. Like saying a Walmart clerk with a DVD player and computer is richer than Vanderbilt or Rockefellor or Morgan because they did not have these things.
When I was young, a typical home's price was generally less than twice a man's salary. Now the typical home is three times a man and woman's typical salaries combined.
What is wrong with that picture?
Wow. Bump!
Of course you would. That's the free trader mindset, Not too different from the slaveowner mindset. Same people, different century. There's nothing new under the sun. Profit is all that matters to your type. Anything that restricts profit and uplifts the worker is evil. So by your ethos, Racketeering is just good business.
That's called 50 years of liberal policies topped off by a Republican predisposed to act like them on economic policy - save for tax cuts.
Bump
In their view government is a convenient hurdle to try and place in front of other competitors. The corporations will tolerate even large hurdles placed in front of themselves, so long as the hurdle in front of their competitors is even larger.
If you have the power and freedom to throw a government tax or regulation in front of one of your competitors then the free market requires that you do so!
So why are all these free traders opposed to government? Is it because they are too lazy and too poor to afford to twist government in their direction?
I say stop wasting your time on FreeRepublic trying to convince us commie-pinko-tariff-loving-neanderthals of the correctness of your views and spend more time selling crap on e-bay, making eTrades, and turning houses for fun and profit.
In their view government is a convenient hurdle to try and place in front of other competitors. The corporations will tolerate even large hurdles placed in front of themselves, so long as the hurdle in front of their competitors is even larger.
If you have the power and freedom to throw a government tax or regulation in front of one of your competitors then the free market requires that you do so!
So why are all these free traders opposed to government? Is it because they are too lazy and too poor to afford to twist government in their direction?
I say stop wasting your time on FreeRepublic trying to convince us commie-pinko-tariff-loving-neanderthals of the correctness of your views and spend more time selling crap on e-bay, making eTrades, and turning houses for fun and profit.
McKinley's points coincided with the Republican platform of the day. You need to come to grips with the fact that your "free trade" lunacy coincides with the leftists then and now. Leftists increase their power when the masses are kept impoverished and ignorant.
McKinley was shot by an anarchist (leftist).
Meanwhile Leon Czolgosz had been talking. The 28 year old blacksmith had come to Buffalo from his home in Cleveland three days before the shooting with just one purpose in mind: to murder the President of the United States. Over those three days he carefully rehearsed his plan. It is believed that Czolgosz was a student of noted Anarchist Emma Goldman. He stated that he opposed the form of Government practiced in the United States and gave the impression that he had done the country a favor. He claimed that he had no accomplices and that he acted completely alone.
DING DING DING! No more calls, we have a winner!
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