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To: jb6
Last summer I finished taking a MBA course on global economics and the professor flat out stated, the goal of free trade was an equalizing effect of everyone's wages.

I don't suppose this "professor" (did he ever hold a job in the real world?) offered any proof of this that you would like to share with us? Hopefully you took notes.

Now calculate the numbers of Americans and Europeans and their average wages vs all the third worlders (China and India alone have 2.3 billion) and see what that means.

Why don't you do this and tell us what it means. Please show your work.

While the third worlders rise up, we collapse

Can you offer any proof of this other than links to the AFL-CIO, Public Citizen or CPUSA?

Thus, killing the middle class..

Again, anything to offer as proof that free trade is killing the middle class? Or, should we all just take your word for this?

28 posted on 01/05/2006 8:52:20 PM PST by Mase
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To: Mase
He was Brazilian and this August returned to Brazil to work for the government. He was really happy about the notion of "equalizing" salaries.

Easy, I did do it with a simple comparison of China and the US (go to the CIA World Factbook and look up the median salary of both, multiply it by the working population (all listed for you) and average the two sums togather, then figure out what the difference is)

The results is that China's salaries rise 2.3 times while US salaries collapse by 70%.

29 posted on 01/05/2006 8:55:55 PM PST by jb6 (The Atheist/Pagan mind, a quandary wrapped in egoism and served with a side order of self importance)
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