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To: snopercod
Everyone acts like the president can wave the magic wand and make this stop. In a lot of ways it reminds me in the 80's when everyone was scared "robots and "computers" were going to elimanate ones job.

These same people who are worried about outsourcing are the same people who probably are big fans of the Internet. Our Internet/Web Site could do the work that it would have taken 2 people to do 5 years ago.

Does that make me a "free trader?"
14 posted on 08/25/2003 2:30:31 PM PDT by jern
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To: jern
Does that make me a "free trader?"

No, that make you a symbol manipulator.

17 posted on 08/25/2003 2:33:10 PM PDT by snopercod (Our research showed that good grammar is now used only half as much as it was 10 years ago.)
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To: jern
'Does that make me a "free trader?""'

I think the proper spelling of the name above (as deemd by the anti-business socialists) is "Free Traitor."

Apparently anyone who believes in the free market is also a Red Chinese Commie Pinko. (according to all the anti-business-save-my-job-at-any-cost types)

I hope that helps you with your question.

21 posted on 08/25/2003 2:36:23 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: jern
He can stop the amount of H1-B visas being handed out.
28 posted on 08/25/2003 2:41:55 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: jern
Everyone acts like the president can wave the magic wand and make this stop. In a lot of ways it reminds me in the 80's when everyone was scared "robots and "computers" were going to elimanate ones job.

In the eighties via tariffs and quotas Ronald Reagan did address the problem.

These same people who are worried about outsourcing are the same people who probably are big fans of the Internet. Our Internet/Web Site could do the work that it would have taken 2 people to do 5 years ago.

The concern is not increased productivity the concern is the subsidies for offshore investing the dispatrity of tariffs and the predatory trade practices of foreign governments like india and China.

India has the second hishest tariffs in the world.

Does that make me a "free trader?"

I don't know do you define Free Trader as one who suuports our current trade envirornment with aaverage 70% Chinese tariffs on American made consumer goods vs their preffered access to American markets? Adam Smith the definer of Free Trade theory would not have called this Free Trade and these conditions would meet his Free Trade definition or when to apply tariffs.

38 posted on 08/25/2003 3:01:27 PM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: jern
Does that make me a "free trader?"

No it makes you a highly confused individual that cannot distinguish the difference between technological progress, which is a good and necessary thing with unfair trade practices and corporate greed, which is a bad thing. IOWs: How do you implicitly equate many thousands of American Workers being laid off so they can be replaced by cheap foreign labor with the advancement of science?

303 posted on 08/25/2003 7:28:33 PM PDT by WRhine
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To: jern
Everyone acts like the president can wave the magic wand and make this stop.

To a certain degree he can make a lot of it stop.

738 posted on 08/26/2003 12:06:41 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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To: jern
He sure stopped it for the steel industry with a tariff.
777 posted on 08/26/2003 12:55:59 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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