Paul,

The thing that amazes me is when someone who appears to be intelligent, can
not figure this out. Recently someone who is strongly against sending jobs
overseas made a strong sales pitch on a very nice trawler built overseas.
He justified the fact that it was ok to buy a boat built overseas, because
there were no US made trawlers. He failed to realize the reason there were
no US Built Trawlers because any company that did not export the jobs
overseas would have gone bankrupt.

He failed to realize, any company who does not remain competitive in the
global economy will become as extinct as the US built trawlers. This
reminds me of the people who were against US companies replacing
manufacturing jobs with machines during the 60's. They believed the US
companies and jobs were someone protected from all foreign products. The
Japanese Auto companies proved how dangerous this mentality can be.

"Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it."


"P Fritz" wrote in message
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"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
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Now why do I always hear from the left that the rich were given a tax
break
by Bush? He did it to stimulate the economy! Does everyone on the left
have such bias that they can't think straight. DO they think the rest of
us
are idiots?



Liebrals tend to be static thinkers......they think that any change in
policy.....tax, minimum wage etc, will not have any effect on the economy
except for the change itself......i.e. a tax hike will simply bring in
more
$$$, a minimum wage hike will simply raise the standard of living for the
minimum wage earner.

Unfortunately for the liebrals, the economy is dynamic......if you raise
taxes on one segment, market forces will simply move the money to where
it
is taxed less. Raise the minimum wage and you simply increase prices
across the board and or move jobs overseas where the labor is
cheaper..........freeze prices and suddenly "new" (repackaged, renamed)
products appear on the shelves with higher prices.

Only the brain dead left don't get it.