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What should the US do about the job drain?
What is the answer?
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January 6, 2004, 22:35
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January 6, 2004, 22:37
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Re: What should the US do about the job drain?
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Not a thing.
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January 6, 2004, 22:38
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Threaten them with being charged with treason (consorting with the enemy). Beyond that, corporations will simply laugh at you and write a check to pay for any drop-in-the-bucket, half-assed fines levied against them... 
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January 6, 2004, 22:42
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If the US loses too many jobs then the world economy driving American consumer will go belly up. What then?
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January 6, 2004, 22:42
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Elect a democrat
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January 6, 2004, 22:44
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well theres 2 ideas:
Free trader: Complete devaluation of the dollar, get rid of such unnecessary things as clean air, water,etc.
Protectionists: Tariffs. Of course thats simplistic to the extreme, theres a 10-20 point plan put out by some people, and its fairly good, it includes such things as placing penalty tariffs on nations that don't import from the third world enough.
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January 6, 2004, 22:46
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Originally posted by Lancer
If the US loses too many jobs then the world economy driving American consumer will go belly up. What then?
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Then the world begins losing its economic dependancy on the US.
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January 6, 2004, 22:48
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So, the fact that we buy the world's stuff is why we own them? Hello?
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January 6, 2004, 22:49
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I agree with Tass: nothing
We also depend on the world as consumers. Perhaps it will encourage ppl not to immigrate, instead stay where they are and make their home better instead of ditching it for what they want.
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January 6, 2004, 22:49
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Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
Then the world begins losing its economic dependancy on the US.
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Juche(SP?)!
With the exact same results as NK, however, its going to happen one way or the other, either we will correct the balance of trade, or enough wages will be destroyed, enough property and debt sold, that people won't even be able to afford the extremely cheap overcapacity the world has to offer.
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January 6, 2004, 22:58
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Send the jobs to Australia. 
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January 7, 2004, 00:26
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Put all of our CEO in Jail.
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January 7, 2004, 00:26
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Move to India. 
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January 7, 2004, 00:34
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Not a blessed thing. What are you, Lancer. A commie or something? 
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January 7, 2004, 00:35
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Originally posted by monkspider
Move to India.
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January 7, 2004, 01:34
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Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
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Now there's an idea. Repealing tax cuts seems the ticket to me. Perfect stimulus to create jobs. 
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January 7, 2004, 01:37
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Actually, after having watch a lot of Lou Dobbs special reports on weeknights called "Exporting America" I'm wondering why isn't it possible to consider ways to discourage corporations from exporting jobs so we can keep our economy healthy, and keep more jobs for American workers??
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Because increasing tariffs are bad, m'kay? 
edit: One example is the huge tariffs on automobiles, so that we could keep automobile jobs in America. Of course, American cars became utter **** (because of lack of competition) and the Japanese kicked our butts so bad, the auto industry in Detroit still hasn't fully recovered
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January 7, 2004, 01:40
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January 7, 2004, 01:42
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Yet another Bush endorsement, Ramo and Tass.
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January 7, 2004, 01:44
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Because increasing tariffs are bad, m'kay?
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We don't believe you. 
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January 7, 2004, 01:46
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Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yet another Bush endorsement, Ramo and Tass.
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Bush endorsement?
He's more protectionist than his predecessor.
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January 7, 2004, 01:49
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The sad part is he seems like he'll be more free trade than most of the Democratic challengers  .
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January 7, 2004, 01:52
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Yet another Bush endorsement, Ramo and Tass.
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Ah yes, Shrub the free-trader. With his support of agrisubsidies and tariffs on a broad range of products including steel (granted, he backed down when faced with the prospect of the a trade war), lumber, and textiles, he's a regular Adam Smith.
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January 7, 2004, 01:53
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Invade China
Make it part of the United States
No more job drain
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January 7, 2004, 01:54
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Hey Ramo and Tass were the ones advocating status quo. Ask them why they like Bush not me.
And yes given the extremist speak of the candidates and the attempts to buy Union votes, I would rate the Dem challengers as even worse than Bush wrt free trade.
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January 7, 2004, 01:55
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The sad part is he seems like he'll be more free trade than most of the Democratic challengers
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To Dean's credit, he has expressed opposition to most agrisubsidies. Of course that bastard might reneg on this position (as with steel) if the argument over agrisubsidies ( http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=105809 ) comes to a head. It's becoming very hard to support the guy. 
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January 7, 2004, 01:58
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Of course that bastard might reneg on this position
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Of course he will! No candidate will get rid of them... no candidate can hope to lose the MidWest and win the election!
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January 7, 2004, 01:58
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Not to worry he'll win those southern votes with a good 'ole fashioned rebel flag waving. No need for ag subsidies.
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