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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:16 PM Original message |
Congressman Sherman (D-CA): Reject the Free Trade Agreement w/ South Korea |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Free trade is the best economic policy there is. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Worst. Only best for leisure class investors. (nt) |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. For who? Not the poor and working folks of either country. |
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WorseBeforeBetter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Wrong. Fat cats get fatter and workers get screwed. (n/t) |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Trade is such a small part of our economy that it is just a whipping boy. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Free trade leaves no oxygen for our local middle class. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. If "free trade" destroyed the middle class, Canada and Europe would be a wasteland |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 04:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. European countries use the value added tax to supplement the |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Why would progressive places like Europe and Canada engage in so much "free trade" if |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. This is the key -- |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-15-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. Managed cooperative trade is the best there is. |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. +1 |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. I see DU is down to only a couple of members who still support our suicidal free trade insanity. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-16-11 07:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Nice rant. Can you point out a progressive country that trades less than the US does? |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 01:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. You obviously didn't understand much from my rant. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-11 07:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. "Canada and Europe don't agree to insane so called "free trade" shit like our government does." |
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