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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:00 AM Original message |
NAFTA and unemployment: "We told ya so!" - or, tried to tell ya |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. the corporatists don't care. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:08 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. True that |
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ClearPresentDanger (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. which newspaper? |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Hello |
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ClearPresentDanger (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 01:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. Hi right back |
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Better Today (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
5. NAFTA-type ideas will only be . . . |
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robcon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 11:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. NAFTA, and other free trade treaties are the best economic policy. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. How do you explain away 30 years of stagnant wages, massive inequality and lack of social mobility? |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. So you keep saying in thread after thread |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. PS: Re: "peaceful relations-causing". We are currently fighting *TWO* wars... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:20 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. I know what he means, but until Iraq and Afghanistan open up their job markets there won't be peace |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Usually his type are bigtime Drug Warriors too (no internal contradiction there!) |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:06 PM Original message |
*roffle* Take that DLC swill and shove it. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. What industry do you work for? I want to start a lobby to have it offshored. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. I don't know where robcon lives, but he/she is European, you'll have to forgive him/her. |
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Elwood P Dowd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. Rob Conservative, no one believes that bullshit anymore. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. Oh dear Christ . . . |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:04 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Certainly has worked that way for Europe. |
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ShamelessHussy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. you forgot the sarcassim smile |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 08:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Sadly . . . he's serious. |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Are you still spewing that bullshit?? n/t |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:54 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. I think you forgot the 'sarcasm' smiley. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. +1. Also, no living wages for blue collar workers means no money for white collar services. |
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BuelahWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 09:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
35. White collar workers affected too |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
10. Rec |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. Nafta means Shafta |
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ShadesOfGrey (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
13. Absolutely correct! K&R |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
18. + 1 |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 03:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. common sense, easily torpedoed with 'corporate media' BS |
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omega minimo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
24. Not enough of US were telling Congress to give NAFTA the SHAFTA at the time. |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
25. as I said while it was being promoted. NAFTA means |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
26. You might have a point if unemployment were only a problem in the US during this recession. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:14 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. dumbass, smarmy comment. we produce fuckall now |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 09:54 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. It isn't a dumbass comment. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
37. NAFTA opened the flood gate that Milton Friedman touted. China is happy for it in the end. |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
31. +1 We need our blue collar jobs back. |
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DU GrovelBot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-20-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
36. I wonder how many jobs have been lost?? |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-21-09 11:03 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Roffelmauw |
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