Comments on: First Democratic Agenda Item: Grow Union Membership http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/10/first-democrati.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Yoshidad http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/10/first-democrati.html/comment-page-1#comment-14193 Yoshidad Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:33:41 +0000 http://www.warrenmeyer.net/coyote_blog/2008/10/first-democrati.html#comment-14193 <p>Sadly, no comment about the "free trade" that is really responsible for the job losses in manufacturing, or the lack of enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, etc.</p> <p>Both parties share responsibility for undermining manufacturing jobs, but the R's are truly head-and-shoulders above the D's in this. Bush 41 authored NAFTA, for example, and Clinton passed it with Newt's help after adding labor and environmental provisions that were then never enforced.</p> <p>FYI, Mexican real incomes fell 34% thereafter (source: Ravi Batra's "Greenspan's Fraud"), and we can't figure out why inhabitants of a third-world country where half the population gets by on less than $4 a day are coming across the border to get jobs. Gee, I wonder why! Perhaps if we demonize them....</p> <p>Meanwhile, check out Ha Joon Chang's "Bad Samaritans" for a history of American hypocrisy and misdirection when it comes to "free" trade. </p> Sadly, no comment about the “free trade” that is really responsible for the job losses in manufacturing, or the lack of enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust law, etc.

Both parties share responsibility for undermining manufacturing jobs, but the R’s are truly head-and-shoulders above the D’s in this. Bush 41 authored NAFTA, for example, and Clinton passed it with Newt’s help after adding labor and environmental provisions that were then never enforced.

FYI, Mexican real incomes fell 34% thereafter (source: Ravi Batra’s “Greenspan’s Fraud”), and we can’t figure out why inhabitants of a third-world country where half the population gets by on less than $4 a day are coming across the border to get jobs. Gee, I wonder why! Perhaps if we demonize them….

Meanwhile, check out Ha Joon Chang’s “Bad Samaritans” for a history of American hypocrisy and misdirection when it comes to “free” trade.

]]> By: ChrisR http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/10/first-democrati.html/comment-page-1#comment-14192 ChrisR Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:22:43 +0000 http://www.warrenmeyer.net/coyote_blog/2008/10/first-democrati.html#comment-14192 <p>I just hate graphs that chop off most of the Y axis. You can make a 2% drop look enormous by just concentrating the graph axis on the part that changed. </p> I just hate graphs that chop off most of the Y axis. You can make a 2% drop look enormous by just concentrating the graph axis on the part that changed.

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