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To: Yogizuna who wrote (12623)	11/21/2003 12:41:33 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Just don't forget the enormous cost to American consumers if we don't get free trade. Don't forget the extra money they will have for spending, creating other jobs in America, if we get free trade and cheap goods from China. Don't forget the sweatshops in China, where if we don't get free trade, the Chinese people will suffer the loss of the best job prospects they've ever had(bad as they may be, at once). Don't forget, if the Chinese get the work and send us goods, they will darn well expect goods of equal value in return, thus creating jobs in America. Sigh, if it were only about immediately seeable jobs, it would be so easy to agree with you. It is not. Dan B.

To: Yogizuna who wrote (12623)	11/21/2003 1:13:57 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

We are already headed for the "1930s" with the current misguided policies in place anyway. Such as? And there are points in my post (made by Dan B too) you seem to be attempting to slip-slide right past: 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. But it DOES sound like your "cure" for international job loss is to erect a wall of tariffs around Fortress America. But what do you do when Canada, Mexico, Britain, Germany, China, .... do the same? What does that do to jobs in the US? While were at it, if protectionism is so good, why not allow states and cities to erect tariffs too? Each village could be its own world. Maybe we could take it down to the level of the individual citizen. Self reliance. Now there's a thought.....