[scottlang]

This is the making of the largest national crisis in modern times other than the wars.
What, is today Hyperbole Day?


To many of us it is a severe crisis. We see our jobs going overseas and see immirgrants coming to compete for those that are left. If you think something is a crisis it is. Bush would be well advised to consider this nd this issue soon. I do hope he wins, but if thing do not get better it will hurt his reelection next year.

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[murdoog]

I do hope he wins, but if thing do not get better it will hurt his reelection next year.

Amen. For 20 years now corporate America has had the advantage of a business-friendly electorate. This was because of the assumption that, even though there was pain at times, when businesses were making more money they would expand and create jobs for Americans. This is no longer the case.

[Dirk McQuickly]

As usual, those who sit in the Ivory Tower screw whoever they need to in order to stay there. Yesterday, it was stock. Today, it's jobs.

There are limitations within our system -- anti-trust, securities law, etc. We have these laws beacause the legislature recognized the need to have some -- SOME oversight in matters that affect the overall health of the economy. I don't think it's an insult to free-market theory to require employers to maintain a specific percentage of jobs stateside.

My God, people from college-educated households are seriously debating the merits of sending their kids to a university for $100,000 per child (by the time they're through) just to be unemployed when they graduate. Trade schools will see a marked increase in enrollment in the coming years, I guarantee. Heating and air conditioning may not be glamorous, but it's good money and a steady job.

[Lael]

To many of us it is a severe crisis. We see our jobs going overseas and see immirgrants coming to compete for those that are left. If you think something is a crisis it is. Bush would be well advised to consider this nd this issue soon. I do hope he wins, but if thing do not get better it will hurt his reelection next year.

In a speech yesterday, Howard Dean gave a well thought out argument about "not feeling constrained" to allow the "reimportation" of goods produced abroad in countries where salaries, labor and environmental standards are inadequate.

He singled out Maytag and its production of appliances in Mexico..."reimportation" of goods formerly made in the U.S.A.

Neat...doesn't directly hit NAFTA or WTO, with its Democrat fingerprints all over.

Preparing a carefully crafted political assault on Bush and the Republican controlled Congress.