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Populist_Prole

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15. Of course the healthy fattening of corporate bottom lines is just a nice side-effect, right?

Reply to Zalatix (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2012, 02:14 AM

Jun 2012

Yes yes, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

You nailed it here:

Free traders scream incessantly about how we owe it to the third world to lower our standard of living to help them

But then, when free traders say we they mean that in the broadest of senses, since I've not seen or heard free traders themselves give up their livelihoods in a martyr-like fashion to lead by example.

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It's America's duty to export jobs to the third world to make their lives better. [View all] Zalatix Jun 2012 OP

Workers of the world, unite! FarCenter Jun 2012 #1

Capital has globalized - and so must workers TBF Jun 2012 #2

The only way I see out of this is to localize. Work toward each region in the world becoming as self jwirr Jun 2012 #3

That's the best approach to localization that I've seen yet. Zalatix Jun 2012 #13

The model that is presented to developing countries is that they should let Western Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #4

good points. moreover, which countries were BOG PERSON Jun 2012 #9

Right, during the 1980s the Reaganites blasted Nicaragua for its land reform efforts (as the Lydia Leftcoast Jun 2012 #12

NAFTA anyone? Puzzledtraveller Jun 2012 #5

Nice try but my job and millions of others were off shored 10 years before NAFTA NNN0LHI Jun 2012 #6

Does that mean that no one else's job was offshored due to NAFTA? brentspeak Jun 2012 #7

No, it means more people should have thought about this 10 years before NAFTA NNN0LHI Jun 2012 #8

the Giant Sucking Sound!! CleanLucre Jun 2012 #10

It's a real hoot watching a party that claims we have the right to kill children kenny blankenship Jun 2012 #11

I believe the new term for unknown, unnamed terrorists is hughee99 Jun 2012 #14

Of course the healthy fattening of corporate bottom lines is just a nice side-effect, right? Populist_Prole Jun 2012 #15