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ProSense

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5. Huh?

Reply to pipoman (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 10:30 PM

Mar 2012

Nonsense...there would be no manufacturing jobs left because we have allowed our leaders to sign us up for trade agreements which forbid us from protecting our markets or requiring some sort of labor parity from our trading partners..

What does that have to do with raising the minimum wage?

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Offshoring and the myth of the "added value manufacturing industries". [View all] Zalatix Mar 2012 OP

I have been in a factory that makes flash memory devices Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #1

Define "drain". I don't call jobs a drain on the economy Zalatix Mar 2012 #8

And how many people do you propose employing doing tasks already automated? Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #13

Damned right I insist. And we, the anti-offshoring majority, will force that "economic paradigm". Zalatix Mar 2012 #14

So... are you going to carpet bomb Shenzhen? Hermosillo? Toulose? Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #15

I see you continue to insist on an economic paradigm that discriminates against American workers. Zalatix Mar 2012 #16

And you insist on one that was contrived and unsustainable Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #22

Hiring Americans to produce goods for America is NEVER unsustainable. Zalatix Mar 2012 #23

Please explain how imposing punitive tariffs on thousands of consumer goods won't be inflationary Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #27

You didn't answer anything I said, at all. Zalatix Mar 2012 #28

This message was self-deleted by its author Sen. Walter Sobchak Mar 2012 #29

A realignment of trade policy is coming pipoman Mar 2012 #19

If you want to shut up a free trade advocate FOREVER, discuss this realignment that's coming: Zalatix Mar 2012 #32

Look at Germany. BOD are required to have elected union workers on them. They have the highest Vincardog Mar 2012 #2

What's their population? A little over 1/4th of ours. Zalatix Mar 2012 #7

OK ProSense Mar 2012 #3

Nonsense pipoman Mar 2012 #4

Huh? ProSense Mar 2012 #5

Well pipoman Mar 2012 #6

Which is why we need tariffs. Zalatix Mar 2012 #10

Couldn't agree more pipoman Mar 2012 #17

Impossible? Only on paper. Zalatix Mar 2012 #21

I'm there with ya.. pipoman Mar 2012 #26

That's ProSense Mar 2012 #20

Raising or lowering the minimum wage won't really help being forced to compete with cheap labor. Selatius Mar 2012 #33

More bullshit from free trade shills. The bar sure has risen of who we should throw under the bus Populist_Prole Mar 2012 #9

Yes, I remember when building electronic devices WAS considered "high value added" manufacturing Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2012 #25

Myth is right KT2000 Mar 2012 #11

We ought to start outing these people. Zalatix Mar 2012 #12

We should start outing the politicians who back the trade agreements pipoman Mar 2012 #18

We kinda did that with Meg Whitman in California. Zalatix Mar 2012 #24

when free trade / free market goobers start talking, all I hear is 'blah, blah, blah....' KG Mar 2012 #30

They're getting louder as they're getting more despised by America Zalatix Mar 2012 #31