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To: miraje who wrote (1674)	2/11/2004 6:45:01 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 81568

James, You seem to belong to the Church of the Fundamentalist Capitalist. That philosophy no longer makes sense. In the past workers had no other choice but struggle to survive while economists' tested their dogmatic theories, but today's workers refuse to behave like timid guinea pigs. Fundamentalist Capitalists need to work on one part of their theory that they were never required to assign any attention during past economic seismic shifts. American workers will NOT allow multi-national corps to offer up their quality of life in order to provide world capitalists the opportunity to once again make fortunes on the back of slave-wage labor in the 3rd world. Why is that so difficult for you & others to understand? Have your college textbooks convinced you that you're not capable of thinking outside the box? There are points in history when the old theories become obsolete, no longer apply & require sharper thinkers to solve never-before presented complicated economic crises. Globalization presents one of those times. Economists cannot expect to apply the same Economics 101 textbook dogma that they preached in past to solve the challenging labor problems caused by their globalization crusade. Workers refuse to be treated like cogs in the wheels of those loyalty-neutral multi-national corps. If Pres Bush wants to be re-elected, I sincerely hope there are many millions of billionaires casting votes in Nov, because those of us in middle class will vote for the other candidate UNLESS the Bush Adm has mustered together enough intelligence to find a solution for the millions of workers rendered unemployed by current unfair free trade agreements.

To: miraje who wrote (1674)	2/11/2004 7:09:47 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 81568

I think because you aren't in the middle of the issue of trade, you don't see the negative side of it. Like me, I was in favor of trade years ago. Sounded good to me, and after all our economy in the US was booming and we needed to import more workers. All was well. Something changed a few years ago and now all this expensive US developed intellectual property is getting offshored before it has even cooled out of the oven. If it were a US company like IBM making the investments that produce these results ok, but it isn't. It is universities and US thinktanks/defense coming up with technologies and processes and these are getting productized by US large corps with offshore engineering teams. We can't have this, it is giving away the nations wealth. The small business and capex industries that used to service the expensive US white collar workforce (which is not a cost burden it is an INVESTMENT) fell to this trend. I think the concept of free trade works at a corporate level, but not at a personal level.