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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (736)	2/25/2004 2:22:08 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1381

>> So you advocate protectionism? Maybe you want foreign countries to boycott our goods & services, or maybe not even buy them at all because our price structure is not competitive. Or would it make you happier if the prices we all pay here for misc. goods & services go higher. The point is, if the U.S. expects to compete in the global marketplace then we have to remain flexible.<< I would not have a problem paying $1 more for goods if it meant the next generation of Americans will actually have jobs. The global marketplace does not compete right now with FAIR trade agreements. All our governors agreed on that point at their annual mtg on Sun night. They enumerated the many ways our trade negotiators do not enforce FAIR trade laws which put American businesses at disadvantage to successfully compete. That necessary flexibility cannot put all the burden on back of American workers. I've noticed over past few yrs of watching stock market, that it's never the extremely over-paid incompetent CEO's who must cut a few million from their obscene salaries. It's always those at the bottom of wage scale who are caught in the capitalist fundamentalists' global chess game. Adam Smith was not capable of envisioning a one-world economy when he wrote "Wealth of Nations"; therefore, why would his theories apply WITHOUT ADJUSTMENTS in today's globalized economy. Of course Adam Smith never envisioned a day when a head of state's political survival would depend on negotiating FAIR trade agreements with regards to the workers caught up in the seismic shift of global economics. In 18thC when those theories were formulated, workers had no rights, were considered cogs in the wheel of commerce & therefore were ignored. Thank G_d that Geo Washington, Thos Jefferson & other great Americans recognized the need for some protection for the often trampled workers rights....it's called the vote. Geo Bush will have to earn those votes this time, or else the capitalist fundamentalist CEO UNFAIR free trade proponents will just find it necessary to tolerate a Democrat President. They simply cannot have it both ways in the USA--completely ignoring workers & still retaining a Repub President. The founders made certain the huddled masses would have some say in their country.