[rollei_list] Re: OT: The State of US Trade

Marc,   You have expressed my thoughts with a very high degree of accuracy.

jon
Olywa

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From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> At 04:12 PM 12/20/2008, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> 
>  >     Frankly, I would rather pay more and keep Americans
>  >working.
> 
> Richard
> 
> Spoken like a loyal Union guy.  It is a 
> fascinating thought, but, frankly, 
> unreasonable.  99.999901% of the USian populace 
> would rather buy cheap than buy American.  Now, 
> to keep business in the US, here are some ideas:
> 
> a)  massive tariffs on imports.  The last time we 
> tried that, in the 1920's, the US was accused of 
> creating the Great Depression which locked Stalin 
> into power in the Soviet Union and which led to 
> the rise to power of Adolph Hitler.  I'm not certain that we want to go there.
> 
> b)  insisting on real free trade.  Japan is the 
> worst example of a nation which has successfully 
> resisted US import efforts.  Clinton tried to 
> fight this and was howled down universally, with 
> even his own senior Democratic Party 
> Congressional leaders arguing against this, along 
> with the head of the AFL-CIO.  This is the way to 
> go.  But, thanks to John F Kennedy, he of sainted 
> memry, the international trade channels are 
> controlled by nations which are very anti-US, so 
> appealing for resolution there wlll lead to the US losing a lot of cases.
> 
> c)  there is no c
> 
> Me?  I'm an isolationist contrarian who wishes 
> the US would simply quit supporting most of the 
> failing nations in the world.   But I am not in 
> charge:  we have another month of a lackluster 
> leftist, George W Bush, and then a succession to 
> a very radical Barak Obama.  I can only pray for 
> the Great Republic.  Times do not look good for 
> this nation.  My prediction is that the 
> Democratic Party will implode as it did in the 
> late 1970's and that we will have Carter, Version 
> 2:  Nancy Pelosi, she of the private jet, and 
> Harry Reid will invest most of their energy 
> fighting with Obama and the result will be chaos.
> 
> I pray that I am wrong but I do not believe that 
> I am.  Just so you know:  you heard it hear 
> first, on the Q.T. and very Hush-Hush, to steal a 
> line from a magnificent movie which resurrected a difficult and failed book.
> 
> But, in the end, sure, I will pay a buck extra on 
> a ten-dollar item to buy American.  But I am the 
> exception.  And I will continue to buy Canadian 
> Kippered Herring, as the US just does not produce these.
> 
> Marc
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