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THE AMERICAN SYSTEM VS. BRITISH FREE TRADE LOOTING
American Almanac ^
| 1995
| Marcia Merry-Baker and Anton Chaitkin
Posted on 09/27/2004 4:16:06 PM PDT by Destro
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What's most off-putting about free-traders is the closed, cultic nature of their thinking. The LaRouchites, though, are if anything even more cultic and frightening. You are right that both LaRouchites and free-traders are cultish. But sometimes either of them dig some useful information. Also I think that free-traders are much more dangerous as they have bigger influence and there is much more of them.
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10/03/2004 10:47:20 AM PDT
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A. Pole
(Madeleine Albright:"We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.")
To: Destro
To: Cronos
Actually, we're both wrong. China has 1.3 billion according to the State Department.
The reason this is important is that the vast number of people in the Third World means that any job that is outsourceable will be incredibly cheaper to do so. This will create a race to the bottom in which our standing of living will approach the Third World more than the reverse will happen.
To: radicalamericannationalist
The reason this is important is that the vast number of people in the Third World means that any job that is outsourceable will be incredibly cheaper to do so. This will create a race to the bottom in which our standing of living will approach the Third World more than the reverse will happen.
well, I would doubt that argument for the following reasons:
- most Chinese are illiterate, never mind the 'statistics' brought forth by the Communists
- These can only be competition to blue-collar workers or to machines.
- However, American blue-collar workers and our machines (and Japanese robots) are generally more productive, giving more value for money
- Hence, it makes more economic sense for some things NOT to go to China.
- However, cheap toys etc. can be manufactured in China with no loss to us
- For the educated workforce, they do have some numbers, but even they are running short in supplying new graduates
- The market won't be as wunderbar as it was during the bubble economy but the supply-demand ratio is just about evening out -- including the influx of educated workers from India and CHina
So, I'd say that while our tech workers won't earn the huge amounts they did (some just by proclaiming themselves html 'programmers'), they won't earn only $5000 a year
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10/03/2004 12:25:41 PM PDT
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Cronos
(W2K4)
To: LowCountryJoe
Here, we have the result of a frantic google search under "free trade:" a Lyndon Larouche article. Amusing because some of the usual suspects bump the thread thinking it's for real. Also, near the end, we discover the ironic fact that posting a Larouch thread is an excellent springboard into a discussion about how free-traders are cult-like.
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