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Zalatix

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2. What's your point? Imports grew even faster than exports.

Reply to Nye Bevan (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 29, 2012, 07:15 PM

Sep 2012

http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/annual.html

Balance of Trade:
-$558.0 (2011)
Which is -$58.0 worse than 2010

Your argument shows green shoots in the middle of a growing jobs desert.

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Here's something that free trade and h1b advocates do not ever want to discuss. [View all] Zalatix Sep 2012 OP

"The Number of Export-Supported Jobs Increased By 1.2 Million between 2009 and 2011" Nye Bevan Sep 2012 #1

What's your point? Imports grew even faster than exports. Zalatix Sep 2012 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2012 #3

Whoopdie doo MattBaggins Sep 2012 #4

Removing barriers - getting rid of the power of world governments to control things like pollution, jwirr Sep 2012 #5

"1493" is an excellent book, about the origins of globalism bhikkhu Sep 2012 #6

On first glance... Zalatix Sep 2012 #9

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Oil? You're using OIL as an example? Zalatix Sep 2012 #8

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