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To: Yogizuna who wrote (12587)	11/14/2003 1:47:30 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

There are some points your response attempts to slide right by: Do you honestly think Buchanan could have stopped cheap international communications and the internet from exporting jobs? How? Just pass a law? How do you word it so some sharp attorney doesn't find the first of the 200 loopholes you left in it that you didn't see? What do you do when 8 other countries can make any product you make cheaper because they have cheaper labor and use modern communications? Where are your external markets? Now how WOULD Buchanan- -or ANY US President- -stop this sort of thing? In theory, the federal gov't COULD ban the export of jobs overseas of to other nations. It IS international commerce, which is under federal control and has little Constitutional limits. But the US would have to withdraw from numerous international trade treaties, including NAFTA and WTO. And nations affected by these moves would also no longer be bound by those treaties and would retaliate. Where do you this is going to end up? Remember the 1930's? "Beggar thy neighbor" trade policies?