Nice happy talk from the old Pres; maybe he even believes it. However
history has proven this sales pitch to be nothing more than a load of
rubbish.
The end results of NAFTA, free trade with China, and all the other scams
which were sold on lines and promises like these, have ended up quite
differently. The US and the West has given up their manufacturing jobs
and expertise so that large corporations can pocket the wage differences
between home and third world work forces. Workers on both sides have
seen increased unemployment and declining standards of living. The West
when the manufacturing jobs first left. And more recently those workers
who first got the jobs as manufacturing moves yet again to cheaper labor
markets.
These policies have been a disaster for all. It will take decades to
repair the damage done.
On 3/3/2010 6:33 PM, Keith Johnson wrote:
/"The more complex societies get and the more complex the networks of
interdependence within and beyond community and national borders get,
the more people are forced in their own interests to find non-zero-sum
solutions. That is, win--win solutions instead of win--lose
solutions.... Because we find as our interdependence increases that, on
the whole, we do better when other people do better as well --- so we
have to find ways that we can all win, we have to accommodate each
other...."
found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum
quoting.....Bill Clinton
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