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To: Ian@SI who wrote (46451)	5/8/2001 11:51:41 PM
From: Cary Salsberg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Ian, I am not opposed to free trade. I have not advocated protectionism. I want a high level government discussion of the negative consequences of free trade in the US and I want the government to tax and use some of the prosperity generated by free trade to cope with its downside. I don't like "innovation" arguments because they assume that the average American can compete with a similarly educated but much lower paid foreign worker through some special American ingenuity. We still have some superior institutions of learning, but these are only available to the best and brightest. The rest can make no assumption that their university education puts them ahead of other countries' educated. I don't believe that it is OK to sacrifice the long term viability of the US because it is best for the whole world. If my grandparents had not come here, I would probably have not been born or I would have died at a very young age.