Posted on 06/02/2007 6:11:50 AM PDT by USconvoy.com
the U.S. textile and apparel manufacturing sector now has lost 1,001,100 jobs
Because they were all illegals?
You never told me if the WTO is an all powerful sovereignty stealer or a toothless weakling? LOL!
Not if the market isn't big enough to support that level of productivity.
Minute Maid might be able to sell a glass of lemonade for a penny as opposed to 25 cents from the kid on the corner, but if the market only calls for a hundred glasses of lemonade Minute Maid's facilities are useless.
What you can't do is claim a glass of lemonade is only worth a penny when market demand won't support a Minute Maid. If it's not that big, then by God a glass of lemonade is worth 25 cents.
Protectionists want me to pay higher prices instead of allowing me to put money in my kid's college fund.
No, protectionists want you to pay for what you imposed on other Americans producing the things you want; not impose it on them, then go to those who don't have to pay such overhead and claim it's "competition."
Why would you produce more units than the market wants to buy?
No, protectionists want you to pay for what you imposed on other Americans producing the things you want;
What have I "imposed on other Americans producing the things I want"?
“free traders” are forcing taxpayers to pay for illegal aliens to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Don’t you want to protect your fellow Americans from this type of abuse? Or do your loyalties lie with foreign countries, like Senator Feinstein and China?
Your studied dissembling makes it obvious you've infered where the philosophical landmines are, and are studiously avoiding them.
That you're doing so without admitting the merits of my self-evident points is a measure of your intellectual dishonestly.
We're done here.
Who are you...and why should I care?
Or you could just run away.
“Clothes are not strategic industries like aircraft and steel.”
Well, aircraft are next. Stephen Udvar-Hazy, head of International Lease Finance, one of the largest commercial aircraft purchasers, has said that “aircraft are too expensive”.
We had better never lose Boeing and Lockheed. Lockheed is now only a military contractor, but both are very important for our strategic base.
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