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Zalatix

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21. Impossible? Only on paper.

Reply to pipoman (Reply #17)

Thu Mar 15, 2012, 10:41 AM

Mar 2012

Nothing that a good voters' revolt can't fix.

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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