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

To: Neocon who wrote (527807)	1/22/2004 1:11:48 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

re: to do something with these pieces of paper, eventually, whether it be to invest them or buy stuff from us.....Thus, we come out ahead, even if we run a trade deficit....... fairly popular Milton Friedman's quote but unfortunately it is not exactly 100% accurate. Trade deficit can not be treated as future contracts on american made consumer goods - it works well as proxy explanation why trade deficit may not be as scary as it looks but that is pretty much it. re: predatory business practices, for example, "dumping" I, per say, do not even have a big problem with dumping that is unless I hold shares of the competitors. The problem is government control (via laws) and I do recall that Milton wrote on that topic too<ggggg>