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Zalatix

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28. You didn't answer anything I said, at all.
Fri Mar 16, 2012, 01:12 AM
Mar 2012

Again, you are still wrong about tariffs. China has had 25% tariffs against the United States and it didn't harm them - in fact it led to years of near double digit growth for China.

Once again, you you absolutely avoided the point that we WILL run out of places to look for cheap slave labor anyway - which means offshoring of american jobs is unsustainable anyway.

You talked about hyperinflation, but it is a well-known fact that outsourcing jobs reduces the value of the dollar. We are headed for hyperinflation anyway because our huge trade deficit automatically adds to the debt and devalues our currency. Oh, I know you have no answer for that. No free trader has answers for that. I don't have a problem with the dollar losing value - after all, it makes offshoring less feasible. However, the very thing you have wasted your time defending is the very thing that will create the hyperinflation that you claim to fear. No wonder you have no answer for this.

Once you're done answering that, please show where I ever said I support a strong dollar, for one. Undercutting China's currency would skyrocket our exports.

Moreover I would see the US getting the hell out of the WTO... or any other organization that DARES tell America what laws they can pass within their own borders. Example:
http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/january/us-appeal-wto-dolphin-safe-tuna-labeling-dispute-m

Perhaps you don't want to answer these things because you know you are supporting an economic paradigm that discriminates against American workers?

Do note that I will be repeating these issues with you until you do answer them. Or you could simply accept that America has no more tolerance for free traitorism and step aside and let us fix this problem.

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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
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