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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: willcousa who wrote (251877)	4/29/2002 6:01:20 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>> Fact is that labor unions have taken over the democrat party << labor unions have been in decline for decades. >> particularly in industries where they are unproductive, like steel, autos and textiles << of course i am not surprised that you resort to the spurious argument that industries like steel are just unproductive and inefficient so we should let them wither away. that argument is shallow and does not hold water. free traitors seem to forget a few relevant facts. you know, like the fact that tens of billions of american taxpayer dollars in recent years have gone to bail out russia, south korea, indonesia, and brazil -- all of which are dumping steel into our country. japan is dumping steel into our country as well, and we haven't bailed them out recently, we've simply taxed american steel workers and steel companies to pay for their defense! so according to you free traitors, it's okay to subsidize foreign countries with american tax dollars who then unfairly dump steel into the U.S., but it's not okay to actually protect the interests of nearly three dozen american steel companies that have gone bankrupt and the hundreds of thousands of american steel workers who are out of work. >> Where they truly have skills and productivity that could compete with others they should not care. << you understand that the only reason many industries are more efficient in other countries is because they have little environmental regulations, no healthcare, and slave wages? free trade to its logical conclusion will mean almost every low-skilled labor intensive job would leave america. of course low-skilled service jobs can't very well leave, they need to perform their service here, but free trade's first cousin, open borders, takes care of that. we import immigrants to fill those positions. where does that leave the average blue-collar american worker? in the unemployment line, collecting food stamps, lobbying the government for more social transfer payments increasing the size of the federal government. so it goes with free trade!