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To: JohnM who wrote (58324)	4/9/2008 1:55:50 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (5) of 542798

I don't think we are talking past one another. The reason global trade is looked at negatively is because it destroys good paying blue collar jobs. The reason there are no good blue collar jobs is because we have not gotten off our butts to formulate an industrial policy of energy independence. Once we do that, not only will there be no need for those old widget producing jobs, but we will be glad the Chinese are producing them cheaply, since all our blue collar workers will be occupied building all the new power plants and associated infrastructure. In other words, global trade appears to be a problem only because we don't have the imagination, savings, and political will to solve our energy dependence problem, which, by the way, creates the lion's share of our trade deficit.

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