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X ` Man

On 8/26/11 7:17 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:02:41 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 8/26/11 4:45 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:25:57 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:05:53 -0400, wrote:

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:52:32 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:55:08 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:29:39 -0400, wrote:

Maybe if the right wing would be willing to maintain our
infrastructure, including funding national parks and monuments, this
wouldn't have happened.

The monument was restored in 1996 Clinton must have cut corners on the
restoration.

I guess you forgot who was in control of BOTH houses in 1996...

January 3, 1995: Republicans gained control of both houses for the
first time since the 1950s.

Target paid for the restoration.

So, we're supposed to rely on Target for our national monuments?
That's what it's come to? That's what you're advocating??

Well, our government sure doesn't have the money to do it.

Actually the money to completely rebuild the monument is chump change
in a 3.8 trillion dollar budget.
I still would not be opposed to a corporation coughing up the money. I
am still not sure I want them to get naming rights.

It is a natural for Viagra tho

The easiest way to get a corp to do it is by ending subsidies to the
ones who ship jobs overseas.

We can also selectively impose tariffs. General Electric, for example,
used to make most of its household major appliances in the USA. Now they
are made in cheap labor countries. Add a tariff to the price of each GE
appliance imported equal to the difference between the cheap foreign
labor costs and a family-supporting U.S. labor cost. In other words,
remove the incentives for exporting jobs.

No, that won't work for the right. They need a chainsaw to fix a
splinter.

The ironic thing is that even though labor is cheaper in places like
China or Mexico, the high end products made there and sold here aren't
any less expensive for consumers than they would be if they were made
here. The only difference is that the manufacturer makes a lot more
profit at the expense of Americans and American workers.

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I'd much rather be a champion of the powerless than a lickspittle of the
powerful.