"Mark Browne" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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Your reply shows how much out of touch with reality you are. Explain
how
we
are to compete in the world market, given our labor costs.

Tell me again how much we are supposed to make to be competitive with
$2.00/hour labor?

We simply are not going to be able to reduce wages enough to be
competitive
with the third world. Now that the Pandora's box of free-trade is open,
our
standard of living will be under fire until the standard of living in the
USA is equal to the standards of living in the poorest country in the
world.

There's your pessimism shining through again, Mark.

Why not rewrite that to say "Now that we have free-trade, the standards of
living in the poorest countries will continue to rise until the standard of
living in those countries is closer to the standard of living in the USA"?

You say "Yeah, right". Well...it happened in Japan.