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Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (1185)	12/28/2003 12:59:36 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3079

There was substations rise of living standards in the 3rd world unfortunately much of the economic benefits, provided by trade get consumed by population growth in this countries. ""making multi-national corps even wealthier."" and if you want to prove your point you need to order anual reports from several of this "multi-national corps " to see how much they increased their profit But it seems that you failed to answer my ? What Dean has to offer? Installing trade barriers with China? With all 3rd world countries? Including Mexico? I am wondering is Dean sollution to our economic problems is to install trade barriers and increase taxes?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (1185)	12/28/2003 1:48:49 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 3079

There are 2 places you can look to see who wins and loses from free trade. - Germany reinstatement (resulted in something of a depression there after fall of berlin wall) - Nike wealth distribution workers vs. executives here in the US. (workers offshore stayed poor as ever, execs in US got richer) I don't think there are too many people in the world callous enough to actually wish for a banana republic in their country, where huge wealth is centralized among a few and everybody else is dirt poor. But, there are strong economic forces that allow this to happen and no one can quite see how to fix it as long as there is a huge labor pool out there. In the US we never had a huge labor pool with only a few hundred million residents. But now, the world is there and every company is turning into a Nike. There is one very interesting piece of good news, in the software industry a new model is taking shape (open source) which actually IS able to compete with indian coders ... because it is free. The laid off programmers in the US and Europe (there are millions) have added significant value to the open source code base. New software companies are selling this open source product with service and support. This is going to cut off a lot of license based software and will create more jobs here, so that is one good thing.