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popeye1250 -> RE: Top 10 Reasons an Open Border Candidate Won the Election (12/9/2009 12:17:42 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
But the more important reason--every country throughout history that has closed its borders has suffered for it economically.
Any decent sized business has a quarter to a third of their markets overseas. Hell, even as a free lancer, I had clients in Canada and Japan. Close off huge chunks of your customers, and you aren't going to create jobs, you aren't going to save jobs, you aren't going to lower prices, you aren't going to stimulate business growth--you're going to kill the economy.
Even more so today. It's a global marketplace. That horse is far, far down the road. Learning to deal with it will prove are more productive than either lamenting it or trying to turn back the clock.
Music, do you remember Clinton telling us that if we passed "NAFTA" that it would create "millions of high-paying manufacturing jobs and help stem illegal immigration?"
Almost immediately we started hemmoraging high-paying manufacturing jobs and there are more illegal aliens in this country than ever.
And, for the life of me I can't remember the American People demonstrating in the streets with signs saying; "We Demand Free Trade."
Can you?
And what about the cheaper prices we were promised, you know, "the consumer" and all that?
Ford, GM and Chrysler all have plants in Mexico and their prices on their vehicles have gone UP every year!
In the mid nineties you could buy a new Ford pick-up for $25k, now they go for $40k! That's not going "down" in price is it?
A few years ago Bush passed "CAFTA" and Haines underware promptly closed their plant here in S.C. laying off 900 people and moved it to Honduras!
And guess what happened to their prices?
I don't buy their products anymore and I tell other people not to as well.
So just WHO is all this "free trade" good for anyway?
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