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To: Jim Robinson
You're a Buchananite Union kinda guy. Union protectionism is your thing.

No, I'm a Buchananite America First! kind of guy.
"Made In USA" is my kind of thing.
I believe that our nation's liberty and independence depend greatly on our capability of being self-reliant utilizing our own vast natural resouces and ingenuity.

"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."

--Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.

As far as unions go, I'm rather neutral.
The best managed businesses operate in a fashion where the employees perceive no benefit in organizing. But there are also mismanaged corporations where employee abuse is best held in check by formal organization of the labor force.

1,141 posted on 03/16/2004 12:02:36 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
"...with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves..."

Well, I think all of that went out the window when the "Made in Tokyo" label hit the shelves. First the junk toys, then the cameras, transister radios, calculaters, electronics, computers, etc, etc, etc. By the way, where are your shirts made? Kinda hard to put it all back to the way it was pre WWII.

1,146 posted on 03/16/2004 12:09:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson
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