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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)95. US = Low productivity? Just another of the major errors in your argument
US productivity is 8 times as high as Chinese productivity. We're the most productive workforce in the world. Where do you get your so-called facts? Seriously, where do you get any of this?
And why do you keep running away from the fact that trade deficits devalue the dollar? You know I'm just going to keep bringing it up every time you reply. And I'm going to back it up with documentation, too, unlike anything you've said: http://www.frbsf.org/education/activities/drecon/1999/9910.html
Free trade is eventually going to lead to imports becoming too expensive. You have no counter argument against this, apparently. And absolutely nothing you've said is backed by any kind of documentation.
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Offshoring: Should America be impoverished in order to help other populations become better off? [View all]
Zalatix
Dec 2011
OP
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