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In reply to the discussion: So, fans of free trade, how does shipping jobs out of America create jobs for America? [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)51. in your post 24 there was no question mark
Can we agree that these are "how often do you beat your wife?" type questions then?
Your loaded question presumes facts which are not in evidence:
When Jimmy Carter took office there were 80.6 million jobs in the US.
When Reagan took office there were 91.4 million. So roughly 11 million jobs net gain in 4 years yet you assert without facts that "jobs started leaving the country in the 1970s."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms
11 million jobs net gain in 4 years.
On metrification, here is a 1982 argument which unfortunately is still valid today:
Maureen Reagan, who heads a Woodland Hills-based export group, Sell Overseas America [and was a candidate in the California GOP Senate race], stated: The biggest problem, now, is impressing upon American business, small and medium-sized companies, that there is a real profit potential in selling overseas. She indicated support of U.S. metrication, noting, American businesses are often penalized in the form of trade restrictions for not using the metric system. At any time a foreign country can and has required that we ship goods to them in metric measurements.
She stated she supported federal legislation to provide incentives for metric conversion, noting that U.S. companies which do not use the metric system often have a problem exporting their goods when overseas countries invoke capricious use of trade restrictions involving size and packaging. She said that new restrictions may be imposed by foreign nations at any time, even when a shipment of goods is on its way.
She stated she supported federal legislation to provide incentives for metric conversion, noting that U.S. companies which do not use the metric system often have a problem exporting their goods when overseas countries invoke capricious use of trade restrictions involving size and packaging. She said that new restrictions may be imposed by foreign nations at any time, even when a shipment of goods is on its way.
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/usmb.html
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So, fans of free trade, how does shipping jobs out of America create jobs for America? [View all]
Zalatix
Apr 2012
OP
That's what corporations have done to f**k up our country, and why our country is in this
Sarah Ibarruri
Apr 2012
#2
Because nearly everybody in both parties did this to us and they knew exactly
Egalitarian Thug
Apr 2012
#67
What difference does it make that both parties did it? It's still the government's fault
badtoworse
Apr 2012
#68
But this isn't the WWII era when the infrastructures of Japan and Europe lay in ruins.....
marmar
Apr 2012
#8
No, but TVs, clothing, shoes, appliances, toys, and just about every other consumer product were
Lydia Leftcoast
Apr 2012
#34
Your response shows you didn't read my question, so DO NOT lecture me about research.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#24
It is not bogus. You once again did not read. I did put a question mark after it.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#29
Good luck with putting toddlers to work on your revived AMC Pacer assembly line
KurtNYC
Apr 2012
#63
Ironic that you should use the phrase "Jobs making iPods" with respect to Chinese labour. (NT)
Heywood J
Apr 2012
#44
I have outsourced my DU posting to China, here is the answer (which cost me only 18-cents):
KurtNYC
Apr 2012
#48
Yup, we know that. The problem is nobody's buying what you're selling. We all see right through it.
Zalatix
Apr 2012
#57
Better question is who is going to fund Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.?
NNN0LHI
Apr 2012
#71