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In reply to the discussion: Offshoring: Should America be impoverished in order to help other populations become better off? [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)102. I see you didn't have an answer to the offshore pollution problem, eh?
Lots of people on here say that we pollute the world.
Y'all sure got silent - more than one person, in fact - when it got pointed out that the places we outsource production to, produce even MORE pollution.
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Zalatix
Dec 2011
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No, I don't mean comments like yours, I mean comments like the one I am referring to
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#7
traditionally tariffs were for raising revenue for the federal government
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#49
The problem is there are two parallel yet unharmonized trade agendas
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#60
Smoot Hawley did nothing of the sort. Plus, embargoes on US exports are useless now.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#57
I don't think there is any economic issue LESS in dispute Smoot-Hawley
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#66
You seem to want to defend Americans losing jobs. We don't have anything to lose by losing exports.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#67
If you want to advocate fighting a 17th Century trade war, go for it.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#70
The US heavy industry won't collapse if we hire Americans to build for the American market.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#71
So it was all the depression huh? The massive retaliatory trade barriers were just a coincidence?
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#82
Why do you keep spouting these uninformed opinions? You have no documentation to back them up.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#93
High US labor productivity is NOT merely a modern phenomenon - where do you get these fantasies from
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#97
"we must fight against the race-to-the-bottom free traders who would have our workers...
LooseWilly
Dec 2011
#53
Indeed. The US trades more with the EU than with China despite China having 3 times the population.
pampango
Dec 2011
#91
What will China and Europe do when America becomes too poor to buy their stuff?
Zalatix
Jan 2012
#101
"resulted in better standards of living" -- not here in the US, though. DECLINING wages, standards
Romulox
Dec 2011
#19
That's an after-the-fact justification whipped up by the plutocrats; the EXPLOITATION came first,
Romulox
Dec 2011
#27
Those standards of living will go down drastically with the rapid overuse of resources.
antigone382
Dec 2011
#43
Resembles the questions over whether or not there should be progressive taxation, social
wiggs
Dec 2011
#38
And you are saying "America needs to become poorer" - your case is not strong at all.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#41
Off-shoring doesn't really help the poor in other third world countries - it helps the corporations.
haele
Dec 2011
#44
Post-War prosperity was built on having bombed nearly every other industrialized nation to dust.
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#46
The Luftwaffe wanted to destroy the RAF et-al and aircraft factories
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Dec 2011
#54
as long as US prosperity is not built on killing & ripping off other countries & nations;
marasinghe
Dec 2011
#48
Outrageously false dichotomy. NAFTA, for example, screwed both sides of the border.
JackRiddler
Dec 2011
#63
Where's my Global Citizenship ID card? Can I move to China for a job with this ID card?
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#78
Find someone else to sell your One World Government ideas to. I'm flippant and proud of it.
Zalatix
Dec 2011
#88