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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: slacker711 who wrote (21299)3/15/2002 5:02:23 AM
From: craig crawford  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
>> They would like a situation where the US can maintain aritficially high wages in fields in which it is no longer the most productive. <<

i don't believe the wages would be artificially high. i believe they would be fair. i believe unfettered free trade leads to artificially low wages--excepting of course the fat cats who benefit from the exploitation, and the politicians who must be paid off. they make out quite well. also, i don't believe high wages are a bad thing. most americans work for wages don't they? why wouldn't you want americans to enjoy high wages?

>> That is the part that protectionists rarely talk about. We are no longer the most efficient producers of textiles, steel, or a variety of other goods (like TV's). <<

here is partially the reason
Message 17195215

which means we have a right to do this
Message 17194929

another reason here
Message 17190861

here is why national interest takes precedence over efficiency
Message 17190506

>> Jobs are lost everyday. They are created in other industries. It is part of capitalism. <<

to which i say
Message 17194543

and
Message 17193613

and
Message 17190778

>> If you began raising a trade war with the rest of the world <<

our foreign trading partners have much more to fear from a trade war than we do. we buy 25% of the world's manufactures.
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