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In reply to the discussion: Free traders will never answer this... if immigrants are needed here... [View all]Zalatix
(8,994 posts)"things might not be so bad for us as you suppose."
You can't possibly be serious. You must be trolling. You, who obviously are safe from losing your job to offshoring, actually made this comment?
In all your talk about free trade you RARELY if ever even mention the plight of American workers. I would say NEVER, but I'm sure that somewhere there might be ONE post where you did. Somewhere, if you dig far enough and interpret it generously enough. You don't care about the working class. You never have. You talk about the economy and how trade helps America but when the losses suffered by the working class is brought up, you don't ever want to talk about that.
And now you have the nerve to say "things might not be so bad for us as you suppose." Hello? Have you looked at the way in which our middle class has DECLINED? Oh yeah, I forgot, it was you who posted the remark about how it is the obligation of America's working class to get poorer to help other nations. What were your exact words: ah, yes, you said "Maybe as a nation we should lower our standards so the third world can do better".
Your exact words: you basically said American workers need MORE SUFFERING. Lower standards of living means more suffering. You can't translate that in any other way. You hate for me to bring that up, but you said it, so you own it. I once asked you what you would do if you lost your job to offshoring and you had nothing to say to that. Now I know why. You show a consistent pattern of indifference for America's working class.
Investing in up and coming economies will not produce jobs for America. We've done it already and it has done absolutely nothing but drive up our imports faster than our exports. Our "engine of a growing economy" is one in which 90% of the growth goes to the 1%. Why? Because they're hunting cheap labor overseas.
No country's working class ever prospers that sends out more jobs than they bring in. None.
Take off YOUR blinders and get to actually meet with America's working class. Unlearn your indifference toward them.
I don't know why you even bother to show up in a trade discussion considering how thoroughly the pro-offshoring position has been refuted and discredited by both scores of other DUers and history itself.