> I hope you are right,
I don't. If we as a country (the U.S.) deny the globalization of
service and product providers, we're going to do very poorly in the long run.
The low price of foreign labor (and possibly products) is ephemeral and
is only sustained by a low standard of living. As this standard of living
increases, the wage gap will become smaller. Perhaps more importantly, if
anything gets in the way of this increase of standard of living (e.g.
oppressive goverments), it will be dismissed or destroyed. Concordantly,
denying this on a federal level will retard the ability for others to express
self determination. Indeed, I believe that not feeling that you "owe" your job
to your government will increase your personal freedom, a situation which
stands ironically vis-a-vis to contemporary "patriotism" as it sometimes is
called in the United States, which is essentially nothing more than
isolationism.
Free trade is not a sin. It decreases the power of governments over
the citizens of their own -- and other -- nations; it allows the free market to
be, in fact, free.
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 07:54:52AM -0800, Stede Troisi wrote:
>
> > If you want some historical perspective, check out
> > the arguments Irwin
> > Feerst was making WRT electrical engineers in the
> > early 1980s. The sky
> > didn't fall then, either.
>
> Ah, so you believe that in the long-run allowing
> companies to hire people in another country that could
> do the job as good as you for 1/200th the price isn't
> going to affect (at least) not too your profession.
>
> I hope you are right,
> God Bless.
>
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