Posted on 04/26/2002 2:59:32 PM PDT by codebreaker
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:53:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
They'll demand that as soon as yesterday.
GERMAN SOCIALISTS PLOT GLOBAL TAXES ON AMERICANS
Bush-Bashing Left Pushes Global Taxes
Aren't you a part of the choir singing the joys of globalism?
As soon as that pesky 2nd ammendment thingy is out of the way and the citizens are dis-armed.
Finally a voice of reason.
God Bless the multinational corporations that put profit before the well being of their employees.
Why should workers in the United States expect to support their families or maintain their standard of living? What a bunch of fools.
If workers in a Chinese prison can live on $10 a month we can learn to compete or die if we can't.
The joys of globalism.
Work for who? Unions? Protectionism keeps
prices artificially high, retards innovation,
discourages productivity, and rewards corruption.
But wasn't the German takeover of Chrysler just as unreal; or the Japanese cars flooding our car market, or buying our steel companies, or Rockefeller Center. We will cave in on this too, for already most of the things we buy are from 'afar', and if you don't believe that, try getting tech support or the rebate check from the company from 'afar'.
We were in a global economy long before we worried about being in a global economy, and as more and more products and services we buy come from 'afar', so our sovereignty must dilute to accomodate reality.
The useful idiots who make the laws hastening our loss of sovereignty have yet to realize that their power too is being lost.
Which is cold comfort.
Imagine the disruption if some Arab contractor just turned off your water, or refused to deliver the mail.
You people had better be very carefull what you wish for.
Have you considered the possibillity that what they really want is that strain of Anthrax. That way, they can give
it to the PLO. Part of the EU aid package.
Which is the most inefficient country in Europe? I want them to put in a bid to run the IRS.
Bangladesh would make a fine contractor for various Welfare departments.
Work for who? Unions? Protectionism keeps prices artificially high, retards innovation, discourages productivity, and rewards corruption.What complete, utter, ignorant BS! What you call "protectionism" is what our founding fathers considered free trade. When the founding fathers spoke of free trade they were in fact referring to trade between the States not this globalist utopia that you dream of. Free trade ONLY works when dealing with states that are an similar or the same economies as in the States. Free trade does not and cannot work between nations of vastly different economies and it is precisely this type of globalist BS that causes Americans to be out of work. When you want to deal on globalist terms you are always going to lose jobs to nations with a lower economy and standard of living because Americans simply cannot compete against the wages that these people are capabe and willing to work for. If you are all in favor of bringing the standard of living in the US down to match that of Mexico and/or India then this globalist BS may be right up your alley but for most of us it's not. You and people like you need to open your eyes!
Case in point. Eastman Kodak had a virtual
monopoly over the US photo market for half
a century. Protectionist trade barriers would
have done the same thing. Among the results,
are the overseas development and now manufacture
of minilabs, 35mm cameras, and the high-speed
automatic printing equipment, all the high-speed
high-volume processing equipment for color film
and paper come from overseas. The EK r&d
pipeline, too long and unresponsive from decades
of captive market in the US, could not respond
to innovations abroad and get decent equipment
on the shipping dock before it was obsolete.
That's just one example of what protectionism
does for you.
The lingering effect of the above, in addition,
is that EK has gone around and bought up virtually
all the photofinishing capacity in the US, because
they were losing paper and chemistry sales to
Fuji, Konica, and Agfa. They have successfully
pushed Konica photofinishing out of the country,
and if it had not been for a multibillion dollar deal
between Walmart and Fuji, Fuji would be pushed
out, too, and your baby pix would be costing you a
lot more than they do now.
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