... your subject line is a big DUH!!
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Friedman: Economy important to nation's strength
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>>One of the things that I can't figure out about the Bush team is why an administration that is so focused on projecting U.S. military strength abroad has taken such little interest in America's economic competitiveness at home ? the underlying engine of our strength.<<
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then. The Repubs seem to be at war with the idea of keeping both jobs and the profits of corporations in the United States.
Rob
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way they can save money, including using overseas labor. How would you suggest stopping that?
BTW, Ive had a question about this whole thing. Ive been hearing (or at least inferring) that when a company moves its plants overseas, all the profits go there, too. Why is that? If they are still American companies, why wouldnt the profits be here?
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If that article was by Milton Friedman rather than Thomas Friedman you might have something there.
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defender of takeovers and downsizing and export of manufacturing jobs. He's the bean counter's bean counter, and no friend of a strong domestic economy, just a thriving investment market (they're not the same thing as the Brits who went through all this in the 10's through the 60's can tell you).
Rob
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He believes in freedom. I realize some people have a problem with that.
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How was that recieved by the people? I recall he was extremely booed. It should also be mentioned that the fascist regimes in South America have had his economic system as a model, which should say quite a bit about his theories. Friedman believes in freedom for corporations to make billions and probably freedom of consumption for those who can afford it. The rest of the population doesn't really count. So much for freedom!
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One small complaint however. Please specify which Friedman, because Milton Friedman, Dean of the Chicago School (University of Chicago, Economics Dept) is one of my least favorite economists in the whole world. I remember watching his series on PBS and yelling at the screen "Of course the British were dominant in the early and middle 19th century !!! It wasn't free trade, it was the fact that they were the first integrated industrial economy and could out produce and produce more cheaply than any other economy in the world. They also had the largest and most efficient Merchant Navy for exports."
I figured if I could figure that out everybody could but all the Reaganites were there with their heads nodding like toy dogs in the back windows of some Redneck's car. I really couldn't and still can't understand it. And the guy is supposed to be some sort of God in the world of economics. Go figure.
Rob Boyter
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