[A. Pole]

"The only way we can get in on this game is to ... make penalties for those who manufacture overseas and benefits for those who manufacture in the United States," Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) told me. "I have a bill to keep the jobs in this country. It's going to be an uphill fight because we've got to really change the culture."

Free market bump.

[raybbr]

Can you add me to your list, please?

The super-capitalists in this group are going to be selling all the old arguements. How free trade is the end-all and be-all of marketing. I have one question they can't answer. After 10 years of NAFTA and GATT what are these nations buying from us that represents true free trade? And, do these other nations impose no tarrifs on goods from America?

[harpseal]

What we first need to do as a nation is to stop subsidizing the export of capital and jobs. We do not have free trade at present we have a situation where the USA is a source of capital for foreign nations and is acting as the transferer of wealth while those nations have in place policies that prevent the return flow of wealth to the USA.

For one small set of measures along the way I wrote the following essay <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/912627/posts'> Saving Our Economy</A>.

[ex-snook]

thanks for ping.

The Bush-Clinton-Bush promises that 'free trade' will increase jobs is obviously a snow job. This is 'government to government' deals with lobbyist input that our reps can't change or see.

The truth is that these deals have swapped our jobs and factories for cheaper consumer goods. But the savings in product cost have been offset by the increase in government costs for crime and social disintegration. It's pay me now or pay me later, one way or the other.

I expect the same snow job in now in progress about dividend tax cuts producing jobs. Money is portable and the jobs will be created elsewhere.