Bush says protectionism will cost American jobs

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/14/news/international/bushfreetrade.ap/index.htm?postversion=2007101410



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His corporate buddies have outsourced practically everything.

:shrug: He's only kidding himself.

What bullshit!

America has lost high wage, good benefit jobs and replaced them with low wage, temporary jobs with no future and no benefits.

If free trade is supposed to be so wonderful, when do all the great jobs start being created? It sure hasn't happened yet. Just ask the tens of thousands of folks who used to work in manufacturing in Ohio. :shrug:

The fact he says "Trade with allies" incontrovertibly confirms China and Russia as being our allies.

(That final paragraph in the quoted snippet is eye-opening and speaks of a larger cause. While I've been and still am worried about America's future, there is a potential for greater good once everything evens itself out. What we have to do is survive the short term bumps that will occur from time to time.)

The last of the nixon cronies hold the highest office in the land;I believe history will prove their ideas were the undoing of our country.
Only on a level playing field can you have fair trade. we still are at a disadvantage.
by the time it is corrected we will be broke.
Keep american money in america.! out source foreign labor. not factories.

Global travel and instant communication can only mean the world we're all watching form.

"So the federal government is providing substantial funding for trade adjustment assistance that helps Americans make the transition from one job to the next. We are working to improve federal job-training programs. And we are providing strong support for America's community colleges, where people of any age can go to learn new skills for a better, high-paying career."

Perpetual motion. You have no time to take a break, because if you do, you'll be left behind(but not in the religious way...well, unless economic production is a religion).

We're nothing but interchangeable cogs. Promised a glorious future if we just give a little more of ourselves over to the machine each day. Just a little more information about yourself, to increase efficiency. Just a little more of your time, to increase productivity.

At some point, life will have to be perfectly engineered, with nothing left to chance. Everything on a schedule, from the earliest of possible ages, to knowing where and when you're scheduled to die, if we still have birth and death.

If other countries DID lowered Tariffs and allow American products into their market that would be great for the US... has he done that, no. This is always a one sided deal in which the US allows ever more cheap foreign products on the US market but never get's the other country to lower their tariffs. There is simply no reason to believe a lame duck president with no support within his country can promote fair trade. He's not exactly dealing from a position of strength.

WTO/GATT trading rules force all members follow the same tariff and quota rules. There are advantages for Third World countries in these trading agreements, which the developed countries agreed to in order to promote development in the Third World.

The US exports more than any country except Germany and China, so it is not true that no one allows American exports into their markets.

having sold this country out with the aid of both his biological and adopted son(Clinton).

like the movie the queen of diaminds lives on.
the only thing right about bush is he puppets well!

Ours, the average Joe, or theirs, the 1% shitbags?

Now folks will get help in changing from auto workers to burger flippers.

maybe they're under here?

(checking under podium) "nope, no American jobs here"

The Prison Industrial Complex is the single largest U.S. employer.

to other than Americans? All this does is ensure we have a small percentage of Americans who has the ability to become wealthy, in effect he is ensuring a third world country enviroment for the majority of American citizens.

:kick: