Did I miss the point when OS2HW became a political mailing list?

Keep your rants where they belong, please.

msnyder1{at}cfl.rr.com wrote:
> On 11/28/06 at 06:21 PM, Ed Durrant  said:
> 
> 
>> We shouldn't get political here, but using the term "Free
Trade" and the 
>>  US of A in one sentence especially with the current goverment is 
>> really stretching reality !!
> 
> That's true of any government of the US, and hardly just the US.  All
> governments have domestic constituencies that want to be protected, who
> argue that their jobs or their products are "strategic" and therefore
> should have their prices supported by tarrifs.  Both the EU and NAFTA are
> simply means of putting the protective tarrif around a larger area than
> one country while allowing trade without tarrifs within the area.  When
> protective, rather than simply revenue-raising tarrifs, have been
> eliminated, consumers have benefitted from lower prices for goods, but
> often those jobs and industries that were protected by the tarrif have
> often been lost.  Those resources of labor and capital can, in theory, be
> used in the production of goods and services in which there is a
> competitive advantage, but the process is very uncomfortable for a number
> of people.
> 
> If you don't like the Bush government's free trade policies, you'll really
> love the ones of our new Congress, which is dominated by people who are
> the lackeys of labor unions, and don't believe in capitalism in the first
> place.


 
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