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Funny, isn't some Chinese petro company looking to buy Unocal? Won't be worth much if there's no Americans around to show them how to turn a knob or flip a switch. They've already left or been fired. :rolleyes: |
I agree with Todd (and others) - seems to me there is a finite degree of wages (at the current retail cost of goods) available for US, Chinese and Indian workers. If the Chinese and Indian workers get paid more, the cost of the goods go up... meaning you lose purchasing power and lose (in a relative sense) your standard of living.
Basically, I don't think all people in the world can be "first world" - there have to be "have nots" to let there be "haves". |
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A classic liberal standing that we disagree with. |
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How would you reconcile it as a Republican theory? |
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You changed it from a closed box scenario with finite value to a chicken in every pot, and you can all have what you want. |
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Entropy wins. Look at any natural system and you see that there are limits. Economic and social systems are no different. |
I am am entropy fan. Can't happen too soon....
But I would LOVE to hear about this unlimited potential for wealth theory...Which party used the slogan "A chicken in every pot..two cars in every garage." Answer: Herbert Hoover, 1928. We all know what happened then... |
Liberals are people who have stopped pretending that everyone can simultaneously be upper class. Or even middle class. We've stopped pretending that nobody needs to clean the oven hoods. Capitalism, like it or not, requires that there be winners and losers. We've been over this before. Capitalism in equilibrium requires some unemployment. Without it, wages would be out of equilibrium and the pressure would be upward. For example. It is, indeed, a "survival of the fittest" economic system.
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OK, so you guys on the left don't think we should do anything to lure Corporations here or to entice them to stay (as they already make too much).
What is your plan then? Force them to stay? B1tch but otherwise do nothing? Seriously....what? Corporations are machines that we can use to better our country, they are not the enemy. |
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fiscal conservative pro-personal discipline pro-support network social liberal government involvement libertarian anti-modern day Union anti-organized religion anti-war on all but the most egregious circumstances believer that those at the top have a moral responsibility to help those at the very bottom (money, time, opportunity) believer that our future rests in breaking cycles, (G9Girl is my attempt at breaking the cycle of how girls see themselves in the current and their available opportunities for the future.) who believes that Education is the silver bullet. there's more, but that's me |
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