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  • Traders Are Not Traitors (Outsourcing is good for America--and the world.)

    03/20/2004 11:24:07 AM PST · by RWR8189 · 66 replies · 273+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | March 29, 2004 | Cesar Conda and Stuart Anderson
    WHO IS the unilateralist candidate for president this year, the man who's willing to push our allies away and who questions the patriotism of those who disagree with him? That would be John Kerry, at least on the issue of trade. Kerry may like to portray himself as a multilateralist, whom foreign leaders are secretly rooting for. But when it comes to trade policy and the outsourcing debate, he claims that it's America versus the world.The recent flap over outsourcing--the buzzword for American companies' hiring professional workers abroad--is almost purely political. Reliable data show that America is not "losing" jobs...
  • Workers in the Shadows

    01/10/2004 4:26:29 AM PST · by Archangelsk · 45 replies · 235+ views
    The NY Times ^ | 011004 | David Brooks
    Workers in the Shadows By DAVID BROOKS Imagine a person 10 times as determined as you are. Picture a guy who will wade across rivers, brave 120-degree boxcars and face vicious smugglers and murderous vigilantes — all to get a job picking fruit for 10 hours a day. That person is the illegal immigrant. Let's call him Sam. This whole immigration debate is about him, the choices he faces and the way he responds. One thing we know about Sam: he will get here. Between 1986 and 1998, Congress increased the Border Patrol's budget sixfold. Over that time the...