Re: It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Doleman!
Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
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The answer is to tighten the flow of capital from going overseas in the form of wages. Bernanke wants inflation and growth, but he isn't going to get it unless wages go up. He can devalue the dollar and push up costs, but without wage growth, people won't be able to afford it and there won't be any growth. And there won't be wage growth when your "free trade" policies encourage outsourcing the labor by which growth is accomplished. We need to build things, mine things, manufacture things and grow things...HERE...in the US. That is growth, not outsourcing all of that so that a few fat cats can collect their checks but leave the rest of the country high and dry. There is a great global imbalance and we need either direct tariffs or restrictions on outsourcing to try and bring a little more balance, or at the very least slow the scales from swinging so wildly and making it more gradual. Not punitive tariffs, or drastic protectionism, but competitive policies. Free trade is not working for the middle class, only for the employer (i.e. wall street). Limiting the amount of green carded workers and offshore jobs would be a very politically popular thing to advocate, yet no-one...and I mean NO-ONE is advocating it! I would prefer to see direct import taxes myself. regards, -Lance (timing how long before someone mentions smoot hawley) On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Karl Swenson wrote: > And the answer is? > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Lance McLain > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:41 PM > To: DADL (off topic) > Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Doleman! > > > Bonus question: Which foreign country were the 6,000 government- > issue superhero capes made in? > > Bwahaha. > > You know, the answer to unemployment in the US is so blatantly > obvious that I can only conclude that policymakers are either > impotent to take on financial interest of wall street or they are > bought completely. Is there any other explanation why this is not a > political hot-button issue? > > > Regards, > -Lance > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot