"Tim Carter" wrote in message
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Pricks like Yuji gets as they deserve Vang. He chose not to keep his
bull**** to hissownself, let him wallow in it.

I'm not sure I understand this. Americans are the major force behind the
push for globalization. Why? Because Americans feel that market forces
should rule, right? Aren't we all about capitalism? Isn't it all about
the
Great American Dream? And really, we only are pushing for globalization
simply because we think it benefits us. And so far it has. We may have
lost some manufacturing jobs since NAFTA, for example, but interestingly,
our economy has been incredible since (even including this so-called
recession). Further, one could argue that we are doing the world some
good
by exporting jobs to places that need it (and yes, I suspect there's some
abuses in 'sweat shops' but I also believe most people employed due to
globalization are happy to be working...even $.10 an hour is better than
nothing, especially when the average annual income is measured in dollars,
maybe hundreds of dollars, not tens of thousands of dollars; the United
States was scrambling for those kind of jobs a century or two ago), and
one
could argue that we are exporting the 'dirty' jobs (manufacturing
typically
includes a lot of environmental damage -- yes I understand we are sending
them to countries with less restrictive environmental laws and maybe
instead
of complaining about it, we should help those countries understand the
value
of environmental protections (not easy with Bush exiting the Kyoto
protocol--but even that continued the abuses of third-world countries)),
therefore benefiting our local environment.

So, in essence, by taking on an American-made only stance, one is left
with
siding with protectionism and government regulations (similar to siding
with
socialism and communism; and of course, also taking a stance contrary to
the
recent WTO ruling regarding the improper American steel tariffs) and also
supporting limited consumer choice, but one is also left with 1) it's
better
to have American's making a relatively low wage compared to foreign
*people*
making a relatively decent wage, 2) attempting to keep the *dirty* work
here
(ask your local Trout Unlimited chapters about the history of industrial
pollution in this country) and 3) attempting to retard the progression to
a
more "knowledge-based" economy -- and after all, isn't that why you want
your children to get a good education?

And of course, what's wrong with a guy wanting the best freakin' waders
for
the money? Skip the fact that he's Canadian and couldn't give a flip
about
whether some American made it (similarly to how American's aren't checking
for the "Made in Canada" label).

Lastly, the statement "Pricks like Yuji gets as they deserve Vang." is a
rather humorous mix of seeming ethnicities/nationalities when defending an
American Only stance.

I don't know how it works in the rest of the world.....never been
there.....but Americans tend to overanalyze even the simplest
things.....witness the above. It's really very simple; the American economy
runs on an abundant supply of cheap aromatic hydrocarbons. Hart's brain
does the same.

Wolfgang
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