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Nothing? Cut me a break...it seems like your critical thinking skills need some polishing and you are either intellectually challenged or intellectually dishonest or both. Your cat in the hat retort is based on um NOTHING as far as sources to back up your so-called substantive argument. The US has not always been a free trade zone...it became quasi free trade under GATT and then moreso after GATT became NAFTA . Before we used to have bilateral trade negotiations with countries and trade was more even handed.
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Aside form personal insults, this is a blatant lie. the US has always been a free trade zone...the same free trade zone that served as the basis for the EU.
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Foreign based car companies began opening up car factories once trade started to become more lenient with NAFTA. The plunging dollar is just accelerating the race to the bottom...
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aside from the fact this is wrong (see thunda's post), the flipside of this is that people started buying Japanese cars because they were more economical (during the gas spike in the 70's, the Japanese were the only ones offering fuel efficient vehicles). People found they were both cheaper and more reliable. The Big 3 had assumed people would just keep buying their crappy cars. Today cars are far more reliable and there's more choice for consumers, win one for free trade. It's true that thousands of US auto workers have lost their jobs (many more than were gained in non-union areas of the country) but labor inflexibility and conservative management are the root causes.
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Originally Posted by Mars
SIGH....The statements based on flour tortillas were not mine..the source is an MIT professor of Linguistics and foreign policy who is more of an authority than somebody who goes by the name of Thunda and provides no substantive sources to back up his assertions/preconceived fixed notions....oh by the way..it's Thunder...how silly to parse words right?
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A distinctly Adlerian statement. all bluster.